All About Chocolate
What's the difference between bittersweet chocolate and semisweet chocolate? Can I use Dutch cocoa in all my recipes calling for cocoa?
Understanding the difference in chocolate and how they are used is essential to baking. Here we'll identify the characteristics of those chocolates used in baking and help you choose the right chocolate for your project.
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Ask the Baker: Questions and Answers about Chocolate
Here you will find answers to our most frequently asked questions. If you want to learn more about chocolate, don't miss these answers.
What is bloom and does it hurt the chocolate?
Bloom is that white frosted look that chocolate sometimes gets in storage. It is bits of cocoa butter on the surface of the chocolate that is often caused by temperature fluctuations in storage or transit. For baking purposes, the chocolate is unaffected.
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Tools
for chocolate and candy baking.
Fun 'n' Fancy Mold Pan. This is the easy way to make intricately shaped cookies fine chocolate candies. Delight your family. Have a great time with the kids making and decorating these cookies or making chocolate. Use the recipes that come with your pan, your favorite sugar cookie recipe, or buy dough from the grocery store. Simply press the dough into the molds (get your kids to help) and bake. Or pour melted chocolate into the molds.- Chocolate Pro
Chocolate Melting Pot.You will fall in love with this electric Chocolate Pro Melting Pot by Wilton. It gently melts fine chocolates and then keeps them melted in the “warm” mode. It will melt chocolate in ten minutes or less without the microwave or a double-boiler. It's great for candy making, molding, dipping, or drizzling. Or use it just as you would a fondue pot..
- Deluxe Cake Decorating Set. Why get a two-bag set? So that you can work with two different frostings at the same time, say red and green. It's worth a little extra to have the extra bag and decorating tips. It comes in a handy storage box.
- Deluxe Candy Thermometer. This is a serious candy thermometer! It's a hefty 12 1/2 inches long and about two inches wide. It's mounted on durable stainless steel, has a large easy-to-read face with readings for different candy stages, and an insulated handle for safe handling. For those who take candy making seriously, this is the thermometer for you. It also works for deep frying and making jams and jellies.
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Chocolate Chips and Wafers for Baking.
We carry a complete selection of baking chips and wafers. Most of these are imported and all are as good or better as you will find in the stores. We carry all your favorite chips plus some hard to find chips like Mint Chocolate Chips, Rainbow Chips, and Chocolate Cookie Chunks.
- Imported Gourmet Milk Chocolate Wafers. With a little less chocolate and some milk solids, this is sweeter and milder than our pure dark chocolate. Use it for baking or candies. It will work in any recipe calling for melted chocolate--cream pies, cookies, cakes, and more.
- Imported Dark Chocolate Wafers. it's really great for candies. Make special confections. Use it for dipping and molding. No tempering required. This is really easy to work with.This is really easy to work with.
Milk Chocolate Chips. You will be amazed at how good these premium chocolate chips are--much better than those commonly found in the grocery store. What makes them better? They are made with the finest chocolate and with more cocoa butter. They look different, more attractive. And they certainly taste better.- Cinnamon
Burst Chips. Add these to your favorite recipe or mix
for a burst of cinnamon in every bite. These make great cookies, biscuits, scones, and bread.
- Maple
Burst Chips. Add these to your favorite recipe or mix
for an extra burst of maple in every bite. These also make great cookies, biscuits, scones, and bread.
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Cocoa for Baking
We carry the very best imported cocoa at prices far less than you would expect to pay at a gourmet source. We package our own and pass the savings on to you. Where most cocoa powder in the store is 8 to 10% cocoa butter, we have cocoa with as high as 24%. You will find medium dark cocoa from France and dark, rich cocoa from Holland.
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Chocolate Chip Cookie Mixes
We carry the very best selection of chocolate chip cookies, all made with the very best gourmet chocolate. (And chocolate does make the cookie.)
You will find such favorites as Almond Chocolate Chip Cookies and Brownie Chocolate Chip Cookies. But you will also find such hard to find mixes as Brownie Mint Chocolate Chip Cookies, Blondies, and Cranberry Chocolate Chip Cookies.
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Featured
Recipe
Mayan Chocolate Chip Brownies These are serious brownies. They are absolutely scrumptious, decadent brownies inspired by Haagan-Dazs’s® Mayan Chocolate ice cream—dense, moist, and laced with cinnamon.
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