White Chocolate

White Chocolate is often dismissed by chocolate aficionados as not real chocolate. I disagree. Cocoa butter is one of the main ingredients of the cocoa bean and therefore merely because white chocolate does not contain cocoa powder is hardly a reason to reject it. However, it is a matter of personal taste and as a product on its own it does have many merits.

White chocolate (couverture) is a combination of not less than 20% cocoa butter and maybe sometimes up to 45%, not less than 14% milk solids, and sugar which accounts for the rest of the product. It is flavoured with vanilla although many producers add other flavours such as orange. White chocolate is also the basis for the blue, yellow, pink and other colour chocolates - which is fun. You can buy this from Ritter Courivaud, Town & County and Keylink (see Directory).