Cacao fruit is what chocolate is made from. Learn the history of cacao, how chocolate is made, and the many ways we enjoy ...

Crush the roasted hazelnuts, melt the chocolate and wash the fruit. Place the cream and mascarpone in the freezer for 15 minutes before use. Step 2: ...

Facing the tumult of school kids on break for the holidays, I had an ace up my sleeve this year: Belgian chocolate. More than that, thanks to the recent arrival of the growing Southern California ...

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Chocolate is the treat and baking ingredient, while both cacao and cocoa refer to the fruit and plant it comes from. In the United States, “cocoa” is used in recipes or to describe hot chocolate.

While cacao fruit’s pulp, juice, and shell aren’t utilized to produce chocolate, more food companies are incorporating these parts of the plant in other creative ways.

By using cocoa gel as a sweetener, cocoa- fruit chocolate boasts a higher fibre content than your average European dark chocolate (15 grams versus 12 grams per 100 grams).

When I was a kid in the 1950s, chocolate cherries were a staple of New York’s corner candy stores, and my father and I both loved them — the crisp shell, the fruit inside swimming in sugary ...