White Chocolate Defined

Mention chocolate and everyone thinks of either the dark or milk chocolate kind. Yet there is white variety and it's just as tasty and interesting as its' brown cousins.It's also pretty versatile too, ending up in everything from cookies to candy treats.

What is white chocolate? It is  actually a kind of chocolate, made from milk,cocoa butter, and  sugar along with vanilla and other flavorings.It doesn't have any cocoa solids. Cheaper varieties have the cocoa butter replaced by vegetable fats, sometimes giving it a kind of "lardy" taste. White chocolate first debuted right after World War One and made by - who  else -Nestle Chocolates. The first bar was from Switzerland and called Galek.A New Hampshire candy company, M&M  were first made to mass produce it  in the States. The first solid bar of it was called "Alpine White" and was made in 1949.The candy has been an Easter basket staple since the late Forties and early Fifties.

Since the Nineties white chocolate has been important in both baking and candy making.For a different spin add white chocolate chips or chunks to dark chocolate cookies. Its' smooth, faintly vanilla taste cuts the dough's intensity. White chocolate can also be used as frosting whether it's combined with whipped cream or added to a butter cream. The sweet is also  used for holiday candy making too. White chocolate  can be combined with toasted coconut to make haystacks or used to enrobe pretzels.It can be tinted however a lot of food coloring has to be used to get  richer hues

White chocolate may not have the fame and even  fortune of its' cousins, dark and milk yet  it is a  good  treat for any candy lover .It has a delicate flavor that's perfect on it's own or combined with other s. White chocolate is a nice alternative when chocoholics are craving something different and exotic,