How do you make white chocolate?

at Wed, 10 Dec 2003 06:20:21 GMT in <[email hidden]>,
[email hidden] (JMI) wrote :

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Hello,

I'm interested in how white chocolate is made. Anyone know how? Is there really chocolate in white
chocolate?

Depends on what you define as "chocolate". True white chocolate contains cocoa butter but no
defatted cocoa solids. If you believe the latter is what makes it chocolate, there is no chocolate
in white chocolate. If you believe any chocolate product in white chocolate qualifies, there is
chocolate in it. So: to get white chocolate, here's what happens.

After the cocoa beans have been roasted and ground, they're either pressed or hung to extract the
cocoa butter. Then, the cocoa butter gets mixed with whole milk powder, sugar, and some vanilla,
along with, usually, a little soy lecithin. This viscous mix is then put into large vats called
"conchs", and just like other chocolates, slopped around in them (the technical term is "conching"
long enough for it to become completely smooth. Then it's brought carefully to a specified
temperature ("tempered"😉 and poured into the moulds for blocs, bars, etc.

So there's the process, basically an alteration of the same methods used for milk chocolate. Most
manufacturers actually buy their cocoa butter from elsewhere, but a few use their own.

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JMI said:

I'm interested in how white chocolate is made. Anyone know how? Is there really chocolate in white
chocolate?

White chocolate is cocoa butter, sugar, milk, flavorings, and emulsifiers, but no chocolate liquor
or cocoa solids. The flavor is described as having a "hint" of chocolate. Since cocoa butter (fat)
comes from the cocoa bean, it has chocolate *origins*.