I am a chocoholic. I will not be ashamed of that. I love Chocolate of any form. Dark and Milk are my top two favorite, but is white chocolate even considered chocolate?
To me I would have to say no.
I know the history behind chocolate and that white chocolate doesn't even CONTAIN ANY CHOCOLATE WHATSOEVER.
Back in the early 1900 BC they use to mix cocoa beans with spices, grind them up and make a cocoa drink for Aztecs and we got ourselves an amazing cocoa drink that the Aztecs would drink almost every day of their lives.
In later centuries, they said that Christopher Columbus encountered the cocoa beans on his journey to the new world and there are more stories of the British keeping chocolate a secret, adding an ingredient that would make it much more sweeter (sugar).
Today, many people often take chocolate for granted and others just gouge themselves in the sweet treat making it into everyday items like cakes, candies, cookies and even their drinks. (Especially coffees)
But white chocolate started out as an unknown chocolate, after milk and dark chocolate became popular in the new world. But to me, I think we should know more about white chocolate and why it's not really chocolate.
Real chocolate uses cocoa butter, white chocolate has no cocoa butter, and sometimes, if you buy white chocolate it looks more ivory than white. In other words, chocolate contains cocoa solids, while white chocolate has no cocoa solids.
WHITE CHOCOLATE IS A LIE!!! Why does it call it self chocolate when it isn't? Dark chocolate and milk chocolate are real chocolates, they actually contain solids and butters. Dark chocolate is much healthier for you and milk chocolate contain milk solids and was discovered by Swiss chocolate makers before Milton S. Hershey made milk chocolate what it is today.
If you like white chocolate then that's fine. I will try the real stuff. What is really found in the cocoa bean. Milk and Dark. Enjoy your chocolate binging. Ciao Bloggers!
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