Presweetened cocoa powder is a commercial product, not something made in the home kitchen. It is cocoa powder that already is combined with sugar and other ingredients.
Cocoa is alaredy chocolate, it is unsweeted powder chocolate. If you add whole milk, cocoa butter and some sugar you get milk chocolate If you add some cocoa butter you get unsweeted chocolate If you add some cocoa butter and sugar you get dark chocolate, semi sweet chocolate. If you want to turn coco powder (the drink mix) into chocolate you can add cocoa butter to make chocolate (i have never tried this so i dont know if it will work)
not usually, but it is possible. plain cocoa would be preferred as a chocolate substitute. Chocolate is a mixture of cocoa, sugar, and fat (cocoa butter). You can make a passable substitute by mixing softened or melted butter with equal or nearly equal amounts of cocoa and pulverized (caster) sugar, adjust for taste. If you use hot cocoa mix do not add sugar and add double the mix.
To make coverture chocolate, you need to melt sugar with cocoa butter, not oil. Cocoa butter has a lower melting point than sugar, making it easier to incorporate. You can find cocoa butter in specialty stores or online. Once melted together, you can then add your cocoa powder to create the coverture chocolate.
To make homemade milk chocolate, you will need cocoa powder, sugar, milk powder, cocoa butter, and vanilla extract. Melt the cocoa butter, mix in the cocoa powder and sugar, then add the milk powder and vanilla extract. Pour the mixture into molds and let it cool until solid.
To make hot cocoa with water, heat water in a saucepan until hot but not boiling. Add cocoa powder, sugar, and a pinch of salt to the water, stirring until dissolved. Pour the mixture into a mug and add milk or cream if desired. Stir well and enjoy your hot cocoa!
i just use icing sugar, about a tablespoon of cocoa depending on how much icing sugar you use, a small amount of butter about a teaspoon and boiling water. just add more water or sugar to make it the thickness you want.
If you mean the packages of cocoa that is made for hot chocolate, no. If you mean the brown cocoa powder made by Hershey's, yes. You have to add more sugar because it's very bitter.
Not necessarily. White Chocolate is made by using cocoa butter but not the cocoa solids. There is milk in it, but more sugar is added to make up the bulk. Dark chocolate can be either milk chocolate (chocolate made with milk, but with cocoa solids as well as cocoa butter) or plain chcocolate (chocolate made with cocoa solids and cocoa butter but without milk). If you add white chocolate to milk chocolate then the result will be a very sweet milk chocolate. If you add white chocolate to plain chocolate, the result will be a milk chocolate
It is not just "sweetness" that changes unsweetened chocolate to milk chocolate, it is the percentage of cocoa solids in the chocolate. The percentage of cocoa solids cannot be removed from the chocolate, so to change it to milk chocolate you need to recalibrate the proportions of the other ingredients. So to change it to milk chocolate, you would have to melt it and add cocoa butter, sugar, milk powder and soy lecithin. This readjusts the proportions in the chocolate to achieve a lower percentage of cocoa solids, creating milk chocolate.
It really depends how much liquid you add.
For every 2 cups of water, I'll add one teaspoon of sugar.
Too much sugar will act against the yeast, so if you add too much sugar you will have a lower alcohol halt. Homemade wine does use yeast, only beer does