The Components Of Chocolate Solids And Cocoa Chocolates

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Chocolate powder and chocolate bars are both common ingredients for chocolate flavored recipes. Chocolates have only two main components- Cocoa solids and cocoa butter. Cocoa solids is where all of the unique flavor in chocolate comes from. Cocoa butter is where the texture from chocolates come from. Cocoa Powder contain mainly cocoa solids. Cocoa solids and cocoa butter Cocoa powder contains only a small amount of cocoa butter. Cocoa powder is mainly made of cocoa solids. Cocoa powder usually contains only a small amount of cocoa butter in the 10%to 12% range. Unsweetened chocolate usually contains around 55% cocoa butter. Cocoa powder usually contains much less cocoa butter than chocolate bars. …show more content…

One of the main influencers of the taste that isn’t chocolate is any types or forms of fats in the recipe. There is a lot that falls under that list but the most commonly heard of and used are butter,oil,and cocoa butter from the chocolate. In desserts that focus on giving out a more creamier type of taste, then it is usually best to not use cocoa and just use chocolate instead. There are some desserts that call for a much needed silkiness that only cocoa butter can provide most of the time. Cocoa butter is a very unique fat because unlike other fats it melts on at a temperature that is very close to the human body's temperature. Chocolate that’s got a hard and solid feeling to it usually feels rich when tasting it on your tongue. Due to the fact that normal chocolate bars contain much more cocoa butter than cocoa powder does, it makes a lot of sense to use normal chocolate bars over cocoa powder. Recipes that are usually contain a lot of cocoa butters is puddings, ganache, and mousses., these desserts are where the more luxurious mouth-feels of cocoa butters really shine. So for desserts like those ones just previously mentioned, chocolate is almost always prefered when it comes to judging chocolate and cocoa powder. This doesn’t mean that cocoa powder is much worse for recipes than chocolate. In fact, if someone wants chocolate with a lot more flavor to it, than can add a tablespoon or as much as they would like to add to the recipe which will add a bigger boost of flavor instead of being an odd combination of chocolates. However, when someone is choosing between cocoa powder and chocolate to use for a chocolatey flavor inside of cakes, the choice becomes much more complicated of

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