Cocoa Butter

Cocoa butter, the fat naturally present in cocoa beans, is sold as pale yellow bars or flakes. When it is pressed from chocolate liquor during the production of cocoa powder, it has a deep tan color and a distinctively chocolate flavor. It is filtered to remove cocoa particles and partly or wholly deodorized to remove most, if not all, of its chocolate flavor.

Cocoa butter is an expensive fat, valued in the confectionery and cosmetics industries for its unique and pleasant melting characteristics.