Chocolate

Chocolate

Any food product produced from cocoa solids and cocoa butter.

Industry: Candy & confectionary

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Cocoa content

Candy & confectionary; Chocolate

The percentage of a chocolate bar that is made from cocoa beans. This percentage can include the beans themselves, the nibs, chocolate liquor, cocoa butter, and/or cocoa powder. If the cocoa content ...

Cocoa powder

Candy & confectionary; Chocolate

A finely pulverised powder made from the solid portion or press cake that remains after the cocoa butter has been mechanically pressed under tremendous force from the chocolate liquor (i.e., ...

Cocoa dance

Candy & confectionary; Chocolate

After the beans are spread to dry, in some cacao-growing regions of Latin America women perform a ritual dance, shuffling through the beans to continually turn them. This helps the beans dry evenly. ...

Artisan or artisanal chocolate or chocolatier

Candy & confectionary; Chocolate

Artisan chocolate, like any artisan product—jewelry, furniture, couture clothing—is handmade by a skilled artisan in small batches, using time-honored and honed skills. Modern artisans are also ...

Blended bar

Candy & confectionary; Chocolate

A chocolate bar made of beans representing any combination of bean varieties, growing regions, and harvest years. The opposite of a blended bar is a single origin bar, where all of the beans come ...

Blending

Candy & confectionary; Chocolate

The process that takes place with chocolate that is not single bean, e.g. 100% Porcelana—i.e., most chocolate. After roasting and before grinding, the crushed cacao beans are blended in a formula or ...

Bloom

Candy & confectionary; Chocolate

There are two kinds of bloom that form on the surface of chocolate: Both are temperature-related and both make the chocolate look suspect and unappetizing. With fat bloom or cocoa butter bloom, the ...