Chocolate

Chocolate

Any food product produced from cocoa solids and cocoa butter.

Industry: Candy & confectionary

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Coulis

Candy & confectionary; Chocolate

A purée of fruits or vegetables that is strained to create a thick sauce-like consistency. Fruit coulis is served with cakes, crêpes, French toast, ice cream, soufflés, and waffles. Bonbons can be ...

Couverture chocolate or coating chocolate

Candy & confectionary; Chocolate

Couverture (COO-ver-tyoor, French for covering or coating, from couvrir, “to cover”) chocolate is professional-quality coating chocolate made with better beans, ground to a finer particle size and ...

Criollo

Candy & confectionary; Chocolate

Criollo is a flavour cacao, and one of the three primary varietals of cacao bean and the finest of the beans in terms of the flavour and aroma of the processed cacao. Criollo means “Creole” ...

Cru

Candy & confectionary; Chocolate

Cru is a word borrowed from the wine world, meaning terroir or the physical environment in which the plant is grown. In the cacao world it is used to indicate single varietals and/or areas that have ...

Crumb or chocolate milk crumb

Candy & confectionary; Chocolate

Crumb is the mixture of milk, sugar, and chocolate liquor created in the manufacture of milk chocolate. It is a liquid mixture, not a dry crumb as the name might indicate.

Crushing

Candy & confectionary; Chocolate

After roasting, the beans are crushed into small particles. It is at this stage that blending occurs (except for single origin chocolate): the chocolatier blends cacao of different varieties and ...

Le Whif

Candy & confectionary; Chocolate

A revolutionary new way of eating chocolate - by breathing it! Imagine, chocolate without the calories. With Le Whif, we inhale food, like chocolate, into your mouths and taste it, without chewing, ...