What is milk chocolate?
Milk chocolate is a form of chocolate, which is mixed with milk for a milder, creamy taste than dark chocolate, which is composed mainly of cocoa alcohol. Many confectionery use it for their products that are designed to consume from the hands, and this type of chocolate can also be used in some baking applications. If you want to use it for baking, make sure to use a recipe that has been designed for milk chocolate, because it behaves very uniquely during baking and is also very sensitive to heat.
Before immersion in milk chocolate, it can help to get acquainted with basic chocolate terminology. Chocolate is derived from the seeds of cocoa plant, Theobroma Cacao . Seeds or "spikes" are made up in large pods that are harvested when they are ripe. Harvestry divided the pods to get into the seeds and then ferment them about a week before roasting and grinding to release chocolate alcohol. Chocolate alcohol consists of cocoa solids cocoaVé butter, oily part of chocolate. If you have ever bitten into a piece of bakery chocolate, you also know it is extremely bitter, because of alkaloids in chocolate. Therefore, chocolate alcohol is often mixed with sugar and other ingredients to make confectionery and other sweet chocolate products.
typical milk chocolate includes 10% chocolate alcohol along with another percentage of pure cocoa solids; In Europe, it must contain at least 25% of cocoa solids. Approximately 12% contains milk solids and another 3.7% consists of milk. Sugar and vanilla are also added to make this chocolate cream and increase the taste. Depending on the manufacturer, either condensed or powder milk can be used.
Milk chocolate quality varies greatly, as well as the quality of other forms of chocolate. Well treated games and high quality milk and sugar create a product with an excellent feeling and taste while poor ingredients bridEsou grain, bitter, slightly acidic chocolate. Different regions of the world have their own preferences of formulation, depending on the techniques used by the main candy producers to create their products. You may have discovered it while traveling. If you feel that you have an interesting blind taste test, build different regional incarnations of the same candy and try to identify the differences in the chocolate formulations used.