Block chocolate
Block chocolate or household chocolate , also known as cooking chocolate in Austria , is a type of chocolate that is not of particularly high quality and is intended for cooking and baking.
The name comes from the large, block-wise division. Typically 200 gram bars are offered.
composition
The designation “block chocolate” is not mentioned in the European cocoa directive, implemented in Germany by the cocoa regulation . Therefore, in the European Union, neither lower nor higher requirements apply to them in terms of minimum contents, permitted additives, etc. than for normal chocolate. It must therefore contain at least 35% cocoa mass , of which at least 18% cocoa butter and 14% fat-free cocoa solids; Only the cocoa butter equivalents listed in the regulation up to 5% are permitted as additional vegetable fats . The category “household chocolate” with only at least 30% cocoa content, which was provided in older versions of the Cocoa Ordinance, no longer exists. The designation “household milk chocolate” is still permitted for milk chocolate that is particularly low in cocoa, but primarily with consideration for British consumer habits; But there is also milk block chocolate, for which the legal regulations then use milk chocolate.
Cooking chocolate
In Austria , the term “cooking chocolate” is common. The Austrian Food Book expressly allows this term for products that may be designated as “chocolate” (the requirements for this essentially correspond to those of the European cocoa directive), and notes that cooking chocolate “due to the less delicate processing is usually a bit coarser Structure ”. The Austrian company Manner has marketed a “cooking chocolate” with 30% cocoa mass for decades and thus, according to its own account, at times made up half of Austrian chocolate production. The article is still available from Manner, but now with 40% cocoa.
In Germany, on the other hand, “cooking chocolate” is generally understood to be a thin-bodied chocolate glaze that is cooked from cocoa powder, sugar, water and flavorings to form a coating that can be coated. It is mainly used in handicrafts to cover cakes , desserts and carrots .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Block chocolate. In: Dr. Oetker food dictionary. Retrieved July 2, 2014 .
- ↑ Original version of the Cocoa Ordinance of June 30, 1975 ( Federal Law Gazette I p. 1760 )
- ↑ Directive 2000/36 / EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of June 23, 2000 on cocoa and chocolate products for human consumption
- ↑ Cocoa Ordinance of December 15, 2003
- ↑ Karsten Keunecke: BDSI position: Common position on the chocolate directive formulated . In: confectionery . No. 11/1999 ( online ).
- ↑ Block chocolate milk. (No longer available online.) In: WAWI's online shop. Archived from the original on July 1, 2014 ; Retrieved July 4, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Austrian Food Book, Codex Chapter B 15 - Cocoa and Chocolate Products, Food with Cocoa Products or Chocolate, Section 2.1.1.2
- ↑ Cooking chocolate 250g. In: Website of the Josef Manner company. Retrieved July 4, 2014 .
- ^ IREKS Arkady Institute for Bakery Science (ed.): IREKS ABC of the bakery. 4th edition. Institute for Bakery Science, Kulmbach 1985
