Chocolate

What is white chocolate?

17 May 2011

White chocolate is made with cocoa butter, sugar, milk powder, vanilla and soy lecithin. In making white chocolate cocoa solids are not used, thus the white colour of the final product: cocoa solids are that makes chocolate dark, as you can verify checking the colour of a 35% milnk chocolate and a 70% dark chocolate, for example.

To separate cocoa butter and cocoa solid is used a press, and after been refined cocoa butter is added back into the liquor. A good quality white chocolate has around 30% of cocoa butter, but on the market is easy to find industrial products with a much lesser amount and thus a lesser quality. Some producers don't use cocoa butter at all, or just in very limited quantity mixed with another fat, much less expensive than cocoa butter.

If you are looking for a good one, be sure to check the colour: if it's snow-white it is a sign of confectionary coating, since a good quality white chocolate should be ivory.

Slitti's white chocolate use 30% minimum of cocoa butter.

Salon du Chocolat: three Gold Bars for Andrea Slitti