There are many different types of chocolate. There are many types of chocolate, white, milk, dark, etc. Each one of these types have different amounts of sugar and solids. These webpage will be talking about 5 different types of chocolate.
White chocolate is the sweetest of the three. White chocolate is typically made from a blend of cocoa butter, milk solids, sugar, milk fat and lecithin -- a fatty emulsifier that holds it all together.You can make it at home in the microwave from cocoa butter, powdered sugar and powdered milk.
Milk chocolate is a combination of cocoa solids, cocoa butter or added vegetable oils, and sugar. Milk chocolate is sweet chocolate that additionally contains milk powder or condensed milk. White chocolate contains cocoa butter, sugar, and milk, but no cocoa solids.
The first steps are to mix, grind, and knead the various raw ingredients into a paste. ... Dark chocolate requires only cocoa mass, cocoa butter, and sugar. Adding milk powder makes milk chocolate. White chocolate is made with cocoa butter, sugar, and milk powder (but no cocoa mass/liquor).
Dry cocoa solids are the components of cocoa beans remaining after cocoa butter, the fat component, is extracted from chocolate liquor – roasted cocoa beans that have been ground into a liquid state. Cocoa butter is 50% to 57% of the weight of cocoa beans and gives chocolate its characteristic melting properties.
Bittersweet has a higher proportion of cocoa solids (and hence a lower proportion of sugar) than semisweet so it tastes slightly more bitter. Nigella, and may other cooks, prefers to cook with chocolate with a high proportion of cocoa solids as this chocolate tends to have a deeper flavour.