Waitrose Cooks Ingredients Dark Cooking Chocolate 70% Cocoa
£3.39
- Brand: Waitrose Cooks Ingredients
- Weight: 150g
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Waitrose Cooks Ingredients Milk Cooking Chocolate
£3.39
- Brand: Waitrose Cooks Ingredients
- Weight: 150g
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Dr. Oetker Fine Cooks Dark Chocolate 54%
£2.89
- Brand: Dr. Oetker
- Weight: 150g
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Dr. Oetker Chocolate Chunks Extra Dark
£2.19
- Brand: Dr. Oetker
- Weight: 100g
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Cooking Chocolate For Home Baking
Cooking chocolate is a purer chocolate than your average bar of Cadbury. The pure, ground cocoa beans generate a somewhat bitter flavour (hence the alternative name of
Today we think of chocolate as a sweet tasting treat, but in its early use (and in its purer form) chocolate had a bitter taste not dissimilar to the cooking chocolate we know today.
The earliest recorded use of chocolate was in approximately 1100 BC; during this era the Mayans and Aztecs of Central America used chocolate to make a beverage called xocolatl, which means
Today chocolate experts such as Green and Blacks and Dr Oetker produce a whole range of different cooking chocolates, so the world is your oyster and you can bake all manner of chocolaty treats!
