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Types of Chocolate

Bittersweet Chocolate Bittersweet Chocolate
Bittersweet Chocolate Bittersweet Chocolate

Bittersweet chocolate is often now labeled "dark chocolate" and clearly lists the percentage of chocolate. That percentage tells you how sweet the chocolate will be: chocolate labeled "70% chocolate" contains 30% sugar, "60% chocolate" contains 40% sugar, and so on.

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Caramel
Caramel

When caramel has cooled and set, cut into 1 inch squares. Chill in refrigerator until firm. Melt chocolate with 1 tablespoon butter in the top of a double boiler or in a bowl in the microwave. Stir until smooth. Dip caramel squares in chocolate and place on wax paper to cool.

Dark
Dark

Dark Chocolate is regarded by many as an indulgent but healthy snack. Some brands are healthy, others should be avoided at all cost.

Extra Dark
Extra Dark

Dark chocolate has ingredients that ... Dark Chocolate Is Healthy Chocolate. Dark Chocolate Has Health ... But you have to balance the extra calories by ...

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Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bar
Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bar

There’s happy, and then there’s Hershey’s Happy. Made of delicious, gluten-free chocolate, this Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Bar makes life delicious.

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Kit Kat (IStock)
Kit Kat (IStock)

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M&Ms (Reuters) Revenue Generated: $4067 Million
M&Ms (Reuters) Revenue Generated: $4067 Million

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Milk
Milk

Milk chocolate is solid chocolate made with milk added in the form of milk powder, liquid milk, or condensed milk. In 1875, Swiss confectioner Daniel Peter, in cooperation with his neighbour Henri Nestlé in Vevey, developed the first solid milk chocolate using condensed milk.

Milk Chocolate Milk Chocolate
Milk Chocolate Milk Chocolate

Crafting milk chocolate is a labour of love, with three main stages: First, chocolate producers blend milk ingredients and sugar and gently mix them with chocolate liquor and cocoa powder. The mixture is dried and becomes a milk chocolate crumbly powder.

Premelted Chocolate
Premelted Chocolate

The pre-melted unsweetened chocolate you mention, sold by Nestle under the brand name Choco Bake, is available at many grocery stores. If you can't find it in your area, you can substitute 3 tablespoons baking cocoa and 1 tablespoon shortening for each packet of pre-melted unsweetened chocolate called for in a recipe.

Pumpkin Spice
Pumpkin Spice

Whisk milk, cream, chocolate chips, and cocoa powder together in a saucepan over medium heat until chocolate chips are melted and hot chocolate is smooth, 3 to 5 minutes. Stir in pumpkin puree and pumpkin pie spice until fully incorporated.

Reese's Peanut Butter Cups
Reese's Peanut Butter Cups

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Sea Salt
Sea Salt

I originally wanted to make these sea salt chocolate peanut clusters with almonds! But everywhere was sold out of almonds. How does that happen? Who knows. But I could get peanuts and so I thought, well why not?

Semisweet Chocolate Semisweet Chocolate
Semisweet Chocolate Semisweet Chocolate

Semisweet chocolate chips are a standard ingredient in most bakers’ kitchens. They are the standard for baking chocolate chip cookies, one of the most popular homemade treats out there, as well as for many other baking applications. Semisweet chocolate is typically labeled as just that: semisweet chocolate.

Snickers (IStock) Revenue Generated: $3862 Million
Snickers (IStock) Revenue Generated: $3862 Million

America's favorite chocolate candies. ... Revenue Generated: $398.9 million ... Mars calls Snickers the world’s most popular chocolate bar, ...

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Stracciatella
Stracciatella

Stracciatella is a term used for three different types of Italian food: Stracciatella (soup), an egg drop soup popular in central Italy. Stracciatella (ice cream), a gelato variety with chocolate flakes, inspired by the soup. Stracciatella di bufala, a variety of soft Italian buffalo cheese from the Apulia region.

Sweet Baking Chocolate Sweet Baking Chocolate
Sweet Baking Chocolate Sweet Baking Chocolate

Sweet chocolate is not the same as semi-sweet chocolate. Sweet chocolate has more sugar. In fact, to substitute semi-sweet chocolate, for every ouince of chocolate, you will also need to add 1/2 tablespoon of sugar.

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Unsweetened Chocolate Unsweetened Chocolate
Unsweetened Chocolate Unsweetened Chocolate

Unsweetened chocolate is chocolate in one of its simplest forms, a solid chocolate made with just cocoa solids and cocoa butter. The natural fat content of a cacao bean is 52-55%, which is typically the amount of fat (cocoa butter) found in unsweetened chocolate.

Unsweetened Cocoa Powder Unsweetened Cocoa Powder
Unsweetened Cocoa Powder Unsweetened Cocoa Powder

Like cocoa powder, unsweetened chocolate originates from a paste made from ground cacao beans. But unlike cocoa powder, unsweetened chocolate keeps its cocoa butter. Simply put, unsweetened chocolate is a chocolate bar with 0% sugar and 100% cocoa.

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White
White

White chocolate is a chocolate derivative. It commonly consists of cocoa butter, sugar and milk solids and is characterized by a pale yellow or ivory appearance. The melting point of cocoa butter, its primary cocoa bean component, is high enough to keep white chocolate solid at room temperature.

White Chocolate White Chocolate
White Chocolate White Chocolate

To create white chocolate, the cocoa butter is combined with milk, sugar, and other flavoring ingredients, but none of the cocoa bean is included. Some would consider white chocolate not chocolate because none of the cocoa solid is part of the end product.