Chocolate

Chocolate

Any food product produced from cocoa solids and cocoa butter.

Industry: Candy & confectionary

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Bonbon or bon bon

Candy & confectionary; Chocolate

French for “good, good,” a hard shell of chocolate filled with a variety of centers. The full French term is bonbon de chocolat (or chocolats fourrés assortis for assorted filled chocolates). It is ...

Bouchon

Candy & confectionary; Chocolate

A bouchon (BOO-shone) French for cork, is a molded, cork-shaped chocolate. It can be solid or filled.

Boutique chocolatier

Candy & confectionary; Chocolate

Often the term “boutique chocolatier” is substituted for artisan chocolatier, but they are different. While an artisan sells his/her handmade wares in a small shop, or boutique, anyone with no skills ...

Brownies

Candy & confectionary; Chocolate

A dense, chewy bar style of cookie, first made in chocolate but now made in a variety of flavours including white chocolate (blondie) and butterscotch. Originating in the mid to late 1800s, the first ...

Butterfat or butter fat or milkfat

Candy & confectionary; Chocolate

The natural fat in milk from which butter is made; it is separable from the milk by churning. There is no butterfat in cocoa butter, which is a vegetable product. The French word for butterfat is ...

Butter oil

Candy & confectionary; Chocolate

Clarified butter, used instead of more expensive cocoa butter in some chocolate formulations to create a smoother texture and mouthfeel.

Cabosse de cacao, cacao pod or cocoa pod

Candy & confectionary; Chocolate

The pod-like fruit of the cacao tree (see photos, top left and right), which flowers almost year-round, with one or two major flowering periods during the 10th to the 12th year in the life of the ...