Chocolate chip cookies are delicious and have a deep connection with us in our hearts growing up.
A standard chocolate melts at room temperature.
That gives the melt in your mouth , mouthfeel to the chocolate which is a coveted quality milestone for many chocolatiers.
And it should be done while being cost effective and healthy.
More bean to bar artisanal chocolatiers use cocoa butter and other natural fats to achieve this feat.
And if one is to increase the temperature of chocolate more than 50 deg c, the chocolate may burn and have a burnt taste.
But what about chocolate chips which are present in your cookies or chocolate biscuits?
To bake these biscuits, the temperature can be in the excess of 200 Deg C or more!
Well, then how come the chocolate chips present in them don’t taste burnt or are a hot gooey mess?
Enter bakestable chocolate chips.
These bakestable chocolate chips, can handle high temperatures, may melt when hot, but mostly retain there structure and don’t taste burnt.
They can be put in biscuits, wafers, bakery items and many more.
But how the bakestable chocolate chip is able to achieve this tolerance to high temperature both consistency wise and taste wise?
Well, the answer to that is , as always the fat percentage.
You see, a good mouth feel chocolate melts at the body temperature because of cocoa butter, because cocoa butter melts at human body temperature.
The more the amount of cocoa butter , the more the melting temperature of the chocolate reaches to the body temperature.
But commercially , this gives rise to a whole together another problem.
Because of the shelf stability, logistics of chocolate products chocolate manufacturer decrease the percentage of cocoa butter and introduce a compatible vegetable fat, to increase the melting
temperature.
It surely does decrease the mouth feel, but increase the stability of chocolate products and that is a trade off most chocolate manufacturers do.
But on the flip side, if they keep on decreasing the content of cocoa butter, the chocolate reaches an optimum point where it holds its shape, viscosity and taste, even after subject to high temperatures.
Sure there are other additives also added but the basic principle remains the same, decrease the percentage of cocoa butter, increase the stability of chocolate chips.
If you would have guessed by now, then yes there are again tradeoffs.
Forget about the mouthfeel, the snap of the chocolate or the shininess of the chocolate.
But you see, in a bakery setup, where the chocolate chip is inside your cookie or biscuit, the above properties don’t matter.
Infact it would be beneficial if the chocolate chip inside the cookie would have a crunch to it and that is exactly what is achieved.
So, the next time you eat a chocolate chip cookie or a biscuit, remember, its all about cocoa butter, present or not.
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