Hot Chocolate has been a favorite for hundreds of years. It all started with the Aztecs, who used to drink “Xocolatl,” an unsweetened version of hot chocolate that included green chili peppers and unsweetened cocoa. While the bitter taste of Xocolatl may not be up your alley, there are plenty of other options for those […]
70% Cacao. Made with Cocoa Powder. Phrases like these, containing the words cacao and cocoa, are often seen on chocolate products worldwide. Similar in spelling, I started to wonder what the difference was between the two words. At first, I thought, maybe, they were the exactly same thing. Perhaps the difference may be just a […]
Whether you’re dipping confections in chocolate, coating truffles, or making chocolates in a candy mold, you’ll need to know how to temper chocolate. Correctly tempered chocolate produces bright, crisp, and shiny chocolate. Correctly tempered chocolate produces bright, crisp, and shiny chocolate. 1. To melt and temper chocolate, you need chocolate couverture: the kind with real cocoa butter. Start […]
Chocolate milk is a sweetened, usually cold, cocoa-flavored milk drink. It is created when chocolate syrup (or chocolate powder) is mixed with milk(from cows, goats, soy,rice. etc It can be purchased pre-mixed or made at home with either cocoa powder and a sweetener (such as sugar or a sugar substitute), or with melted chocolate, chocolate syrup, or chocolate milk mix. Other ingredients, such as starch, salt,carrageenan, vanilla, […]
A chocolate bar is a confection in bar form comprising some or all of the following components: cocoa solids, cocoa butter, sugar, milk. The relative presence or absence of these components form the sub classes of dark chocolate, milk chocolate, and white chocolate. In addition to these main ingredients, it may contain emulsifiers such as soy lecithin and flavors such as vanilla. There are many varieties of chocolate; milk chocolate, dark […]
Listen to the way people malign chocolate: Sinful! Decadent! To die for! There’s even that popular restaurant dessert known as “Death by Chocolate.” But is this any way to talk about a loved one — especially during the season of comfort and joy? Bite your tongue! Evidence is mounting that some kinds of chocolate are […]
