What is Dark Chocolate?
Dark chocolate is a made from cocoa beans, sugar, cocoa butter and natural additives, such as lecithin and vanilla. The percentage on a chocolate bar describes the amount of cacao in the chocolate. Higher percentages of chocolate will be more bitter and strong than a lower percentage. When biting into chocolate the texture is hard, but melts easily when it is exposed to warmth. Chocolate is dark brown and sweet, with an earthy and nutty quality, that can border on bitter. Chocolate is often sold in bars, blocks and as chocolate chips.
Ingredients
Cocoa powder is made from the fermented and dried cocoa bean and ground into a delicate powder. This powd ...
Sugar comes from sugar cane and sugar beets. The sugar is extracted from the juice of both plants and ref ...
Cocoa butter is fat that has been extracted from the cocoa bean. It is pale yellow and when heated become ...
Mature soybeans are harvested once the pod has grown for roughly 100 days and the bean becomes dry. Soybe ...
Vanilla extract is a flavoring used in baked goods, candies and drinks. It is made by infusing alcohol wi ...