Chocolate

Chocolate

Any food product produced from cocoa solids and cocoa butter.

Industry: Candy & confectionary

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bloom

Candy & confectionary; Chocolate

There are two kinds of bloom that form on the surface of chocolate: Both are temperature-related and both make the chocolate look suspect and unappetizing. With fat bloom or cocoa butter bloom, the ...

bonbon or bon bon

Candy & confectionary; Chocolate

French for “good, good,” a hard shell of chocolate filled with a variety of centers. The full French term is bonbon de chocolat (or chocolats fourrés assortis for assorted filled chocolates). It is ...

bouchon

Candy & confectionary; Chocolate

A bouchon (BOO-shone) French for cork, is a molded, cork-shaped chocolate. It can be solid or filled.

boutique chocolatier

Candy & confectionary; Chocolate

Often the term “boutique chocolatier” is substituted for artisan chocolatier, but they are different. While an artisan sells his/her handmade wares in a small shop, or boutique, anyone with no skills ...

brownies

Candy & confectionary; Chocolate

A dense, chewy bar style of cookie, first made in chocolate but now made in a variety of flavors including white chocolate (blondie) and butterscotch. Originating in the mid to late 1800s, the first ...

butterfat or butter fat or milkfat

Candy & confectionary; Chocolate

The natural fat in milk from which butter is made; it is separable from the milk by churning. There is no butterfat in cocoa butter, which is a vegetable product. The French word for butterfat is ...