Types of Chocolate

There are many types of chocolate ranging from cocoa, baking chocolate and eating chocolate. Each variety of chocolate has its own uses; for example if you want to use chocolate in cooking you are ...

Bitter chocolate is defined as containing more than 35% chocolate liquor. Despite its name chocolate liquor contains no alcohol. It is made up of the finely ground nib (or centre) of the cocoa bean ...

Cocoa is used in recipes such as chocolate cake icing and even mixed with sugar and hot milk to make a delicious chocolaty drink. Cocoa is a fine powder with a slightly bitter, rich chocolaty ...

Decorators’ chocolate or confectioners’ chocolate isn't actually chocolate at all; it is more like a chocolate flavoured liquid sweet. Decorators’ chocolate or confectioners’ chocolate is mainly ...

Milk chocolate is chocolate with milk powder or condensed milk added. The EU regulations specify a minimum of 25% cocoa solids should be present in milk chocolate. However in the United States milk ...

Semi-sweet chocolate describes chocolate which has a level of sweetness that falls between sweet milk chocolate and bitter chocolate liquor (cocoa solids). Most people know semi-sweet chocolate as ...

White chocolate was first developed after the Great War (World War I). It has grown in popularity since then and is often popular with people who don’t like regular chocolate. Familiar brands such ...