A Bakers Guide to Chocolate

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Understanding the difference in chocolate and how they are used is essential to baking.

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Let’s Start With Cocoa

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Bitter Baking Chocolate

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Sweet Baking Chocolate

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Milk chocolate is made with ten percent chocolate liquor. It contains a minimum of twelve percent milk solids.

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White chocolate contains no chocolate liquor but is made with cocoa butter.

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Chocolate Chips

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A Bakers Guide to Chocolate

Understanding the difference in chocolate and how they are used is essential to baking.

Let’s Start With Cocoa

Cocoa is the dry chocolate powder derived from chocolate liquor. It comes in two types: natural and Dutch process.

Bitter Baking Chocolate

Bitter (unsweetened) baking chocolate is made from pure chocolate liquor. By specification, it must contain 50 to 58 percent cocoa butter.

Sweet Baking Chocolate

These products must contain 35 to 50% cocoa butter but may have as little as 15% chocolate liquor

Milk chocolate is made with ten percent chocolate liquor. It contains a minimum of twelve percent milk solids.

Milk Chocolate

White chocolate contains no chocolate liquor but is made with cocoa butter.

White Chocolate

Chocolate Chips

Chocolate chips are made with chocolate liquor with only minimal amounts of cocoa butter.

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