How Many Types of Chocolate are there?
Posted by David on 6/17/2020 to
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Q: How types of chocolate are there?
A: There are 6. Or maybe 5?
Unsweet chocolate: usually just cocoa liqueur with 99% to 100% percent chocolate.
Dark chocolate: cocoa liqueur, cocoa butter, sugar, plus other ingredients.
Demystifying Food Expiration Dates
Posted by David on 6/2/2020 to
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All kinds of dates can be found on food packaging and it can be very confusing to figure out what they all mean. We're here to help!
The most expensive chocolate in the world is...
Posted by David on 4/16/2020 to
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There are plenty of high-quality, yet affordable, lux chocolates available but some brands set out to push the boundaries making products that seem more designed for sticker-shock than culinary delight. These are the chocolates we are talking about...
The Most Expensive Chocolate Egg Ever Sold at Auction
Posted by David on 4/2/2020 to
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With Easter 2020 just over a week away it's time for another chocolate Worlds Record!
Guinness World Records Largest Chocolate Easter Egg!
Posted by David on 3/26/2020 to
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It's
just 2 weeks from Easter, folks! Here's
a little chocolate trivia for your Easter basket...
The Big Myth about Cooking Foods with Alcohol
Posted by David on 2/8/2020 to
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How
many times have you read or heard that the alcohol in vanilla extract bakes out
in a cake? Or that all that red wine in your spaghetti sauce or boeuf
bourguignon leaves only its flavor after cooking? Or that when you flambé your
crepes Suzette with Cointreau or your bananas Foster with rum, that the flames
are burning off all the alcohol in it? WRONG!!!
Our New Chocolate Enrober!
Posted by David on 1/18/2020 to
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It
was -7 degrees F. in northern Wisconsin but that a little cold weather wasn’t
going to discourage me from the road trip last week to get our new chocolate
enrober.