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Cooking with chocolate can cause a lot of confusion. There are so many different types of chocolate available today that it can often be a overwhelming to know which type of chocolate to use in which situation. Let's break it down so you can have an easy reference guide. The Basics: Chocolate first comes from yellow pods that hang from the cocoa tree. When the time is right and the pods are ripe, they are gathered and opened to reveal about 40 cocoa beans within each pod. These cocoa beans are then dried in the sun and allowed to ferment. This helps to develop the rich flavour of chocolate. After that, they are washed again, dried, cured, roasted, and eventually crushed to remove the shells of the bean. This is what gives you the chocolate nibs, which are further roasted and crushed to obtain a thick liquidy paste known as chocolate liquor or cocoa mass. This is the essence from which all chocolate is made. Cocoa mass is generally made up of 53% cocoa butter and 47% cocoa solids. The cocoa mass may be further processed to extract these two components for the making of chocolate. The different types of chocolate all vary based on the amount of cocoa butter, cocoa mass, sugar and milk solids present.

Unsweetened Chocolate: Unsweetened chocolate is also known as baking chocolate because it is very often used in baking. This is chocolate in the purest form of solid cocoa mass. No sugar or milk solids have been added to it at all, and it is very bitter in taste. It is actually not suitable for eating by itself, and is used together with sugar for baking pastries such as cakes or brownies.

Dark Chocolate: Dark chocolate generally refers to chocolate made with cocoa mass and added sugar, cocoa butter, and sometimes emulsifiers such as lecithin. This chocolate does not have any added milk solids. It includes varieties such as the bittersweet chocolate and the semisweet chocolate. Dark chocolate in Europe more commonly refers to the bittersweet variety, while in America it is usually meant to refer to the semisweet variety. At least 35% of cocoa mass is present in the chocolate. Semisweet chocolate: Semisweet chocolate has lower cacao content and is sweeter than bittersweet chocolate. However, there are no official guidelines about what can be called bittersweet and what can be called semisweet. The only FDA requirement is that something called dark, bittersweet, or semisweet chocolate contain at least 35 percent cacao and less than 12 percent milk solids (more milk solids, and its required to say its milk chocolate). Beyond that, labeling is entirely up to the manufacturer.

Sweet Chocolate: Sweet chocolate is required to have at least 15% of cocoa mass, and is sweeter than semisweet chocolate. It contains also additional amounts of sugar, milk solids, and sometimes emulsifiers as well.

Milk chocolate: Milk chocolate differs from dark chocolate in that it contains milk solids. It has a lighter colour and milder, sweeter taste. The milk solids present in the chocolate make it less suitable for baking and it should not be substituted for dark chocolate in baked pastries, as the milk solids have a tendency for burning. Compared to dark chocolate, it is also slightly more difficult to temper.

White chocolate: White chocolate contains no cocoa mass or cocoa solids. The ingredients mainly present are sugar and cocoa butter. However, sometimes the cocoa butter is replaced with vegetable oil, giving a lower quality chocolate. It is sweeter than the milk and dark chocolates, and also much more difficult to temper.

Couverture: Couverture refers to chocolate that contains at least 32% of cocoa butter, thus making it a very fluidly smooth chocolate with a glossy texture. The high amount of cocoa butter also gives a wonderful melt-in-your-mouth experience. Couverture is much more preferred among chefs and chocolatiers. Gianduja: Gianduja is a European style of chocolate that is made by combining ground roasted almonds and milk chocolate. It is used for a variety of purposes and is a very soft chocolate. Coating Chocolate or Imitation Chocolate: Coating chocolate or imitation chocolate is chocolate with the cocoa butter replaced by vegetable oil. In general, its quality is not as good as real chocolate, but requires no tempering and is good for coating candy. It does not melt easily and so is useful for many purposes. Chocolate Chips: Chocolate chips are small, tiny drop-shaped chocolate piece that are popularly used for making cookies and muffins. They can be bought in a variety of flavours and make great toppings. Chocolate Melting Wafers: Chocolate melting wafers, such as pistoles, buttons, ribbons, and culets, are round or oval discs of chocolate that are very conveniently used for melting. The advantage of using them is that you don't have to take the trouble of chopping up the chocolate for melting.

Answer the following questions:

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1. Which chocolate you like the most? Why? ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________

2. State three different types of chocolates: ______________________________________________________________________________ 3. What are the two differences you can identify between these two chocolates? Fill in your

answers in the box below:

Dark chocolate White chocolate

4. All chocolates contains____ as the main ingredient. What is the main ingredient?

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5. Usually, we use chocolate to make chocolate cakes and hot chocolate drinks. What are

other types of foods we can make with chocolate? _____________________________________________________________________ 6. Write in your own words everything you like and what you think about your favorite chocolate: ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________
7. What will happen to a child if he eats chocolate which is sweet, creamy and milky every

day? ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________

8. What is your favorite brand/bar/kind of chocolate?

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THE BEST CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

Ingredients

1 cup butter, softened 1 cup white sugar 1 cup packed brown sugar 2 eggs 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 3 cups all-purpose flour 1 teaspoon baking soda 2 teaspoons hot water 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 cups semisweet chocolate chips 1 cup chopped walnuts

Directions
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). 2. Cream together the butter, white sugar, and brown sugar until smooth. Beat in the eggs one at a time, then stir in the vanilla. Dissolve baking soda in hot water. Add to batter along with salt. Stir in flour, chocolate chips, and nuts. Drop by large spoonful onto ungreased pans. 3. Bake for about 10 minutes in the preheated oven, or until edges are nicely browned.

1. What is the best word to describe chocolate chips cookies? Example: Good taste _______________________________________________ 2. Before you stir in the vanilla extract, what should you do first? ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ 3. When you cream together the butter, white sugar and brown sugar, what colour you think the cream will be? ___________________________________________ 4. Why do you think the butter need to be softened first before we cream it with other ingredients? ________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________ 5. If you want to make these cookies, would you replace the walnuts with other nuts? If yes, state one name of the nut you want to replace with. _____________________________________________ 6. If you want to eat these cookies, what would you want to eat together with the cookies? Example: Strawberry jam. _____________________________________________ 7. Do you think that chocolate chips cookies are delicious? Why? _____________________________________________

8. From the comic strip above, do you think the bear can eat the chocolate? Why? _______________________________________________________________________