There are many kinds of chocolate one can use to make dipping chocolate. One can use Milk Chocolate, Dark Chocolate, or white chocolate to make dipping chocolate.
Not shortening. Use about one tablespoon of vegitable oil per pound of chocolate.
hershey's
They would use a fish sauce
milk chocolate is the best
milky chocolate
Gourmet semi-sweet chocolate or white chocolate
You will almost never make chocolate from the cacao bean - that is a commercial process. What you should use when making something that contains depends on what kind of chocolate you are starting with. If you are going to bake a chocolate cookie, and oven is best, but some kinds can be make in a microwave. If you are melting chocolate to use in an icing, or as a topping on ice cream, doing so with water in a double boiler is probably best, but again, some forms of chocolate can be softened or liquefied in a microwave.
no you can not
In most cases, semisweet chocolate is the best to use. I know some people prefer white chocolate so that can also be used. It depends on what kind you are trying to make.
use white chocolate
Most any kind of chocolate, when melted and tempered properly, can be molded. Do not use cooking chocolate, it's not the greatest for eating.
Of course you can!