If you’re a chocolate lover, you may have dabbled in the creamy, deliciousness that is white chocolate. But have you consider what really makes this white confection different from its darker counterparts?
What is White Chocolate?
White chocolate is not chocolate, in the truest sense. Milk and dark chocolate use cocoa solids, cocoa butter, sugar, and milk solids in a specific combination, where white chocolate is different is this combination does not include cocoa solids, therefore leaving only a sweet melting experience known as white chocolate.
What You Need to know
This ivory chocolate consists of cocoa butter, sugar and milk solids. Now you may be thinking, “Wait, cocoa butter?! Isn’t that one of the good things?” And the answer is Yes! Cocoa butter is one of ambs of chocolate, however, here is the kicker; white chocolate does not contain cocoa solids, so nothing of the dark, rich, melt-in-your mouth cocoa flavor is shared.
How is White Chocolate Made?
The process of making creamy chocolate begins by extracting the cocoa butter from the cocoa bean. After the cocoa butter is separated from the cocoa bean, the silky cocoa butter becomes the base of white chocolate. Sugar is added to sweeten the creation, so it is the sweet base of white chocolate to awaken your palate.
