Dark Chocolate- The Wonderful Dark Delight

     Are you too like me head-over-heels in love with dark chocolate? Now you can hog them as much as you wish without feeling guilty of it affecting your health or you putting on tons of weight.
 
Dark chocolate is also known as healthy chocolate when compared to milk chocolate or white chocolate simply because of its health benefits. Dark chocolate has more than 65% of cocoa content in it. The taste of dark chocolate may not be as appealing as that of the other two, but it can boast of being as elegant as wine with a class that associates with a fine dinner.
 
Have you wondered how this wonderful edible delight is made? Cacao pods are harvested from the cacao plant. These shells are removed to obtain cacao nibs which are fermented and made a paste out of it. This paste is call cocoa liquor or chocolate liquor. This liquor can be routed to cocoa solids and cocoa butter. This cocoa solids and cocoa butter in varying proportion gives bitter chocolate.
By controlling the quantity of cocoa butter and solids in the cocoa liquor and by adding fat and other sweeteners different types of chocolates are produced. The bitter chocolate when combined with milk and sugar in varying degrees forms the very popular dark , milk and white chocolate. Similarly if other ingredients are added, chocolate of different flavours are produced.