Adjusting Recipes When Using Dark Chocolate

Dark chocolate is the new “little black dress” of the baking world. However, many home cooks are accustomed to using milk or semi-sweet chocolate. Most of the time honored recipes that we use call for those specific ingredients and not dark chocolate. Many are afraid to try it. Fear not! You can use dark chocolate in Grandma’s Famous Cookies and they will still taste delicious!

Dark chocolate is claimed to actually be good for you and there are claims that it can help fight heart disease, high blood pressure and other ailments. So, now would be a great time to adjust some of your favorite chocolate recipes. You will want to look for bittersweet chocolate or German chocolate. Bittersweet chocolate has a high percentage of cocoa but less sugar. German chocolate is sweeter than semi-sweet chocolate.

Adjusting your recipes will be very simple. Instead of using the chocolate you normally would, add the bittersweet or the German into your recipe. You will use the same amount of chocolate that your recipe calls for.

So enjoy your “healthier” cookies and cakes. Remember that eating the dark chocolate is actually a health benefit. A piece of dark chocolate a day, can help keep the doctor away.