White Chocolate

Appears in
Professional Baking

By Wayne Gisslen

Published 2008

  • About

White chocolate consists of cocoa butter, sugar, and milk solids. It is used primarily in confectionery. Technically, it should not be called chocolate, because it contains no cocoa solids. However, the name white chocolate is in common use. Some inexpensive brands, in which another fat is substituted for the cocoa butter, not only contain no cocoa solids but none of the other components of chocolate either. These products don’t deserve the name chocolate at all.