sweet candy! have you ever tried the new cadburys?
No, its sweet.
Candy is generally a sugary sweet or lolly. Chips are a savoury snack so no chips are not a candy.
bitter-sweet dark chocolate
You can use equal substitution between milk chocolate cips and semi-sweet chocolate chips, so 1 cup of either.
Yes.
86 semi-sweet chocolate chips equals 3 squares of semi-sweet baking chocolate.
The word is fudge.
In cookie recipes, the recipe probably means semi-sweet chocolate chips. Bakers' chocolate, which is usually unsweetened, would be far too bitter. But you have a lot of choices, depending on the taste you want in your cookies. Semi-sweet chocolate chips tend to be the most popular, but you could choose chocolate mint chips, peanut butter, butterscotch, white chocolate chips or chocolate pieces of various sizes, from mini-chips to the larger "chunks."
Any brand will do, and you caneven use semi-sweet chocolate chips!
When you put the chips in, add sugar.
Chocolate chips (usually) have added stabilisers, to ensure that they remain in "chip" form when they are baked. Quality is often poorer in chocolate chips compared to semi-sweet chocolate; more sugar, fewer cocoa solids etc... Usually cocoa solid content is not listed on chcolate chips (because it's very low). I personally prefer to use semi-sweet or dark choclate, chopped roughly whenever "chocolate chips" are required. (That way you're also more likely to be able to find the chcolate when it's been cooked - chocolate chips seem to disappear). Dark chocolate buttons, if they're a good quality, also work just fine.
Whether chocolate chips can be used in place of a chocolate bar depends entirely on the recipe. If the chocolate bar is broken or chopped up, and the chips are the same type of chocolate - milk, semi-sweet or bittersweet - then the chips probably would be a good substitute.