Ingredient Information

Baking Chocolate

If chocolate liquor is not dried and ground into cocoa powder, it is refined further by replacing some of the cocoa butter with lecithin (and other ingredients depending on the manufacturer) to create a smooth velvety chocolate. This unsweetened chocolate is what we know as baker's chocolate. It is also called bitter chocolate and is the base for most of the chocolate sweets created today.

Some baker's chocolate has sugar added to it to make bittersweet chocolate. Most recipes will specify whether you should use unsweetened baker's chocolate or bittersweet baker's chocolate.

1 ounce bittersweet baker's chocolate = 142 calories, 12g fat, 6g sat fat, 0g mono fat, 2g protein, 14g carbohydrates, 0mg sodium, 0mg cholesterol

1 ounce unsweetened baker's chocolate = 139 calories, 15g fat, 9g sat fat, 0g mono fat, 3g protein, 8g carbohydrates, 0mg sodium, 0mg cholesterol

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