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Types of Chocolate
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Categories:
Baking
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Chocolate
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Desserts
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Information
Ingredients:
Dark chocolate
Bittersweet chocolate
Milk chocolate
Semisweet chocolate
Sweet dark chocolate
Unsweetened chocolate
White chocolate
Directions:
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Dark chocolate: Sweetened chocolate with high content of cocoa solids and no or very little milk. It may contain up to 12% milk solids. Comes in sweet, semisweet, bittersweet, or unsweetened varieties.
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Bittersweet chocolate: A dark sweetened chocolate. Contains no less than 35% cocoa solids. Better chocolate should contain 50% to 85% cocoa solids. Often used for baking/cooking. European types of bittersweet chocolate usually contains very large amounts of cocoa solids, and some of them have quite bitter taste. Not as sweet as semisweet or sweet chocolate.
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Cocoa powder: There are two types of cocoa powder: (1) Alkalized, also known as Dutch-process, commonly used in baking recipes. Many European cocoa powders are Dutch processed. Hershey's version is in a silver box and called "European-Style". Others are Droste, Lindt, Valrhona, Poulain, Bensdorp. Substitution for 3 tablespoons Dutch-processed cocoa: 3 tablespoons natural cocoa powder plus 1/8 teaspoon baking soda. (2) Nonalkalized, also called natural. Popular brands are Hershey's, Baker's, Ghirardelli, and Scharffen Berger. Substitution for 3 tablespoons natural cocoa: 3 tablespoons Dutch-processed cocoa plus 1/8 teaspoon cream of tartar or 1/8 teaspoon lemon juice or vinegar.
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German chocolate: Developed by the Baker's Chocolate Company, a brand name for a chocolate that is sweeter than semisweet. A dark chocolate that is sweeter than semisweet chocolate. Good for icings and cakes. Substitute: use a good dark sweet chocolate, such as Hershey's or Baker's, instead.
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Milk chocolate: 10-20% cocoa solids (cocoa and cocoa butter) and more than 12% milk solids. A sweet chocolate used mainly for eating and in cookies.
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Semisweet chocolate: A sweetened chocolate. Contains no less than 35% cocoa solids (generally 40-62%). A classic dark baking chocolate that is often used in cakes, cookies, and brownies. Sweeter than bittersweet chocolate, but not as sweet as sweet chocolate.
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Sweet chocolate: Contains 35-45% cocoa solids. Sweeter than bittersweet or semisweet chocolate. Also known as sweet dark chocolate or sweet baking chocolate.
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Unsweetened chocolate: Contains almost 100% cocoa solids, about half might be fat (cocoa butter), and no sugar. Used for baking. Not suitable for eating. Not the same as bittersweet baking chocolate.
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White chocolate: Made with cocoa butter, but does not contain any non-fat ingredients from the cacao bean and has an off-white color. Many do not consider this to be a true chocolate because of the low content of cocoa solids.
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