Chocolate lover's thread!

[vheissu]

Eww, white chocolate doesn't even deserve to be called chocolate. Especially with peanut butter like a Reese's cup. Double

Very much agree...white chocolate isn't made from cocoa beans right?So, technically (and...flavourly?!) it's not chocolate. The only one I can actually eat without turning my nose up is made by Green&Blacks...but they've put some vanilla in it and the taste is quite different from normal white choc.

I've recently stumbled upon little lindt chocolate eggs, in a nice red foil...there are soooo nice. And today, I went to the little shop across the road which stocks them, after a few days of deciding against it...and they didn't have them! Grrrrr!!!

[kathycf]

It is not that the taste of it is so horrible, it is simply so bland compared to real chocolate.

White chocolate is a type of chocolate based on cocoa butter without the cocoa solids. It also includes milk solids, sugar, lecithin, and flavorings (usually including vanilla). Cocoa butter is the ingredient used in other chocolates so that they remain solid at room temperature yet melt easily in the mouth. Thus, white chocolate has a texture like that of chocolate but does not have the same taste. Unlike chocolate it does not contain caffeine.


As white chocolate does not contain cocoa solids or cocoa mass, it does not meet the standards to be called chocolate in many countries. In the United States, since 2004, white chocolate needs to be at least 20% (by weight) cocoa butter, at least 14% total milk solids, and less than 55% sweeteners such as sugar. Before this date, US firms needed temporary marketing permits to sell this cocoa solids-free chocolate. The European Union has adopted similar standards: white chocolate needs to contain not less than 20% cocoa butter and not less than 14% dry milk solids.

Some "white chocolate" is made with vegetable fat and not derived from cocoa. Vegetable fat-derived white chocolate is white in color, whereas cocoa butter-derived white chocolate is ivory-colored.

[Domer121]

I am a huge fan of chocolate....The best in store brand, in my opinion, is Lindt.....closest you will get to the real thing in retail stores

[Madhuri]

Some news for every chocolate lover -- 12th Feb, is a Chocolate Day

[dramasnot6]

2 days before valentines day, that's great timing!

[Laindessiel]

Uh... proof of my being a chocolateh addict?

[Laindessiel]

Oh no! The photos are so big!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's me taking a time off unpacking the stuff in our new house. That's why I look so haggard.

[dramasnot6]

You are truly an inspiration to all of us Chocoholics Lain

[Laindessiel]

Thanks my dear Mira.

Gosh. You see those damn pimples?? Oh my! I blame the dust and dirt that entails moving houses.

P.S.
Those photos were taken by Reccura.

[toni]

Lain's obvious infatuation with chocolates astounds us all... in a good way!

[Laindessiel]

Mind, I don't eat chocolate that way all the time. I actually don't stain anything except my tongue. I'm a neat freak when it comes to eating messy stuff and that chocolate brand keeps on melting. Just havin' some good dirty fun.

[toni]

Mind, I don't eat chocolate that way all the time. I actually don't stain anything except my tongue. I'm a neat freak when it comes to eating messy stuff and that chocolate brand keeps on melting. Just havin' some good dirty fun.

lol..

[kiz_paws]

I was reading the very start of this thread and found that great recipe for chocolate chip cookies posted by dramasnot6. Thanks muchly -- I especially like the fact that it is egg-free and milk-free.

[Laindessiel]

She probably makes that because she's a vegetarian. Wow. Gosh, no milk?

[dramasnot6]

I was reading the very start of this thread and found that great recipe for chocolate chip cookies posted by dramasnot6. Thanks muchly -- I especially like the fact that it is egg-free and milk-free.

Aww thanks for taking a look at it! Its nice to have someone appreciate my strange, health-nut recipes It's sugar free as well,so ends up being quite nutritional AND chocolatey

Gosh, no milk?

Yup! I've tried it on many non-vegetarians as well and they couldnt even tell the difference!