Types of Chocolate...
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About Bitter Chocolate
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...
About Cocoa
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...
About Milk Chocolate
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....
Decorator's & Confectioner's Chocolate
Decorators’ chocolate or confectioners’ chocolate isn't actually chocolate at all; it is more like a chocolate flavoured liquid sweet. Decorators’ chocolate or...
Drinking Chocolate: History and Recipes
Picture yourself curled up in front of a roaring fire, after a long stressful day at work, or traipsing around the shops, or maybe a bracing walk...
Fairtrade Chocolate
Next time you’re choosing a bar of chocolate, you might like to consider how you’d feel about the chocolate if you knew a 10-year-old boy in Africa had been beaten...
Semi-Sweet Chocolate
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...
The World's Most Expensive Chocolates
There are some chocolates who give ‘expensive’ a whole new meaning. Some don’t travel – like vintage wines you have go where they are produced to...
Using Baking 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...
White Chocolate
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...
