Sweet Chocolate

Sweet chocolate is bitter chocolate with the addition of sugar and cocoa butter in various proportions. If the percentage of sugar is low, sweetened chocolate may be called semisweet or, with even less sugar, bittersweet. Both of these products must contain at least 35% chocolate liquor, and their sugar content ranges from 35 to 50%. A product labeled sweet chocolate may contain as little as 15% chocolate liquor. Do not confuse sweet chocolate with milk chocolate (described below). In this book, when sweet chocolate is specified in a recipe, any sweetened chocolate may be used, although the results will, of course, vary. Bittersweet chocolate is specified if a good grade of chocolate with a high chocolate liquor content is essential for the best results.