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Can you use hot chocolate mix for semisweet chocolate?
Probably somehow but i wouldn't recommend it! i bet it wouldn't taste very good! Hot chocolate mix is very full of sugar, only a small amount of cocoa and is a powder. Semisweet chocolate is a solid and has butter/oil in it and much more cocoa. You'd be better off using cocoa and butter... google substituting cocoa for chocolate for an exact recipe of what to sub.
What are the similarities between white chocolate and dark chocolate?
Cocoa is an ingriedient in chocolate. It is a refined dry powder made from the cocoa bean. The cocoa butter has been remove from it. Chocolate includes cocoa, cocoa butter, sugar, milk, and other ingridients. As the proportions change in the chocolate mixture, it is possable to derive various types of chocolate, like bitter, semi-sweet, dark, and milk chocolate.
What is the Equivalent of 1 chocolate square to cocoa?
Actually, none. Chocolate powder (whether cocoa powder or drinking chocolate) is not a good substitute for chocolate, because both powders have had the cocoa butter removed. Cocoa butter is a key ingredient in chocolate (it gives chocolate the melting at body temperature quality, which is pretty much the basis of chocolate) - it is a fat, so it adds moistness and enhances the crumbly texture of cakes. Since chocolate powder contains no cocoa butter, the end result (if it is used as a replacement) is that of a very dry and slightly bitter cake.
How much is 5 tbs of cocoa powder compared to chocolate squres?
3 level tablespoons of cocoa powder plus 1 tablespoon of butter or shortening equals 1 square cube of unsweetened baking chocolate.
Is cocoa butter and cocoa powder the same thing?
Usually yes. Some recipes specify "baking" cocoa powder just so that nobody gets confused and uses "drinking chocolate mix" instead (since this contains sugar and milk powder which would throw off the recipe).
What are all the popular types of chocolate?
The differences in chocolates depend largely on the percent of cacao, sugar, and butter fat in the bar, and whether or not it is milk chocolate.The different types of chocolate are:Bitter chocolate - unsweetened cocoa solids combined with fat to form a solid bar. Used in cooking and baking.Dark or black chocolate - cocoa solids combined with fat and sugar to form a bar. European standard demand a minimum of 35% cocoa solids.Semi-sweet - dark chocolate with half as much sugar as "sweet chocolate."Bittersweet - chocolate to which less than a third by weight sugar, cocoa butter, vanilla, and lecithin have been added.Couverture - chocolate rich in cocoa butter. Typically a specialty shop product.Swiss Milk Chocolate - chocolate made with milk powder, liquid, or condensed milk, containing a minimum of 10% chocolate liquor, and 25% cocoa solids.Hershey Process Milk Chocolate - chocolate produced by the patented process developed by Milton Hershey. The process is proprietary, so is not performed by any but the Hershey Chocolate Company.Cocoa Powder - Broma, Dutch processed cocoa to produce a powder used for cooking and baking. Broma is also called natural cocoa and retains its slightly acidic pH. While Dutch Processed cocoa is neutralized with alkali to produce a smoother product.Compound chocolate - confection product made by combining cocoa with other vegetable fat (hydrolyzed coconut oil is common), and primary used as a candy coating.Raw Chocolate - dried cocoa nibs, or compressed cakes from which most of the cocoa butter has been removed.White chocolate is not a form of chocolate at all however. White chocolate does not contain cocoa. It is a product of cocoa butter, vanilla, and other solids.
Why does chocolate melt in your mouth?
It depends on how much cocoa fat is in the chocolate; the melting point of cocoa fat is below blood temperature (between 34 and 38oC) so it does melt when you put in your mouth. One side affect of this is that hot countries don't usually have high cocoa fat chocolate for sale as it would melt in the summer.
Why is chocolate fattening?
Most chocolates have a fair bit of sugar and fat - cocoa butter - in them. These ingredients are fattening if eaten too much/too often
If you have 400g of chocolate in a chocolate fountain how much vegetable oil do you need?
The questions is like asking, 'how long is a piece of string?' There are a number of factors to consider. The main factor being the actual chocolate itself. "Cheap" chocolate will not contain enough cocoa butter to make the fountain flow properly.A good guide (but not necessairily accurate) is: the chocolate MUST have a minimum of 32% cocoa butter for it to even stand a chance of flowing. The higher the percentage the better (within reason!)If you put a piece of chocolate in your hand, it is not the chocolate that is melting first, it is the cocoa butter inthe chocolate that is melting.We would NEVER, EVER (even in a million years) suggest using vegetable oil in Chocolate. It will dilute the chocolate and leave the chocolate with a film of 'grease' on the top of the bowl. Why do it? Do you want to taste chocolate or vegeatble oil?The BEST, and I do mean the best thing to use is Cocoa Butter. As professional chocolatiers as well as runnning a professional Chocolate Founain hire business for all types of events, we use cocoa butter by Callebaut (a large chocolate manufacturer) called 'Mycryo'. It is pure, 100% cocoa butter.Making chocolate is a science and an art. For 400g as the question asks, I would suggest a table spoon or two of cocoa butter - it is not expensive. There are other considerations such as the ambient temperature the chocolate is in, the type of chocolate (white, dark, milk), the variety of chocolate and so on and so forth. An easy question to ask; we are asked this type of question just about everyday with people calling us at The Chocolate Fountain Guild, and relatively simple to answer!Chris TaborPassion for Chocolate
How much cocoa is in an chocolate sandwich cookie?
The amount of cocoa in a chocolate sandwich cookie varies by recipe. The only way to know for sure how much cocoa in is a specific cookie is to have the recipe.
Is Phenylethylamine the main chemical in chocolate?
It depends on how much cocoa is in the chocolate,
How much cocoa powder is equal 130 gr dark chocolate?
about 20-40% depending the brand quality/recipethat's why some 60% dark chocolates seem to taste more cocoa like comparing to other 70+% from other brands they get that percentage by combining the other ingredient's percentage, which is cocoa butter quality brands use about 50-50 of each product, while expensive dark chocolate had more cocoa mass than butter %
