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Having worked in the candy industry, there is indeed a small amount of paraffin in coating chocolate. As near as I can calculate there is approximately 3"x1"x1/2" of paraffin to a pound of chocolate. They sell a special kind of paraffin in specialty catalogs made for candy, but I have used the paraffin you can buy at a grocery store in my recipes. It is a food grade paraffin because it is made to seal jelly glasses with.
