Everything you ever wanted to know about chocolate and more!
It seems everything these days is a matter for controversy, even a subject as unlikely as chocolate. To some 'white chocolate' is a contradiction in terms. Fair enough, the name might be a little misleading. So-called white chocolate actually contains none of the dark powder that gives its cousins the distinctive chocolate look. Since it doesn't have cocoa powder or chocolate liquor, one might well ask why it deserves the name.
Chocolate is the result of blending cocoa butter and a liquid called chocolate liquor, both derived from the cacao bean. But from those twin ingredients, many different kinds of chocolate can arise. One of the finest is milk chocolate.
All true chocolate is made from a mixture of cocoa butter and something called chocolate liquor, both derived from the cacao bean. But from that simple list, many different possibilities bloom. One of the finest is dark chocolate. This is the purest, richest form of chocolate with all the full flavor of one of the most widely appreciated taste sensations in the world.