Saturday, April 16, 2016

Foodie Wonderland: Chocolate Chip

Marshall IV: "Greetings to all of you Earthlings, and for now we will be talking about Chocolate chips ONLY, and not chocolate chip cookies."
Grant V: "So let us get too it!"

Marshall IV: "Chocolate chips are actually small chunks of tiny broken chocolate formed into a small flat teardrop-like shaped food. Back to you Ashley." Well thank you, Marshall.

Usually chocolate chips are sold in various amounts of sizes such as largest into the most miniature sizes, but are normally sized until a centimeter in diameters.

A more variety version of chocolate chip are squarely-chunked shapes, which are normally used for baking cakes and cookies.


Usage of Chocolate Chips

An image of a chocolate chip cookie
Usually, these small chunks of chocolate are used under the crisps of a cookie and other various types of pastries such as pancakes, waffles, cakes, puddings, cupcakes, muffins, hot chocolate etc, (you can see the images of these below.

Another recipe method for chocolate chips are to melt them into a type of creamy sauce at the the best temperatures which are between 104 and 113 °F (40 and 45 °C). This melting method is normally used for making cocoa butters and the melted at around 90 °F chips are mixed with it. You should never turn the temperature into 115 °F (for milk and white chocolates) or 120 °F (for dark chocolates), all else it will damage the flavor and burn it. But a tip is that melted chocolate is not the best choice for a baking material, as baking chocolate can perform better.

Because of most chocolate chips are not designed to get destructed, and are designed to be remained in their shaped selves during the baking process, and as they contain less cocoa butter then the regular baking chocolate, it will be harder for the method to work if it is melted.

Chocolate Chip Pancakes
Chocolate Chip Waffles










Grant V: "ASHLEY! Why are you showing me all this food and talking about ch-cho-chocolate? You know I l-lo-love chocolate! Especially chocolate chips."
Marshall IV: "Oh no! Farewell kingdom! (wears a cosplay of Grant V) This is Marshall IV and Grant V over and... out!"

Peace y'all!

1 comment:

  1. Taste my chocolate chips! Head down to this post to discover more about chocolate chips and the purpose of this ingredient!

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