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What size were Baker's Chocolate bars when they were first introduced?
Bakers Chocolate Bars prior to mid 2013 were 8 ounce bars, after mid 2013 they became a 4 ounce bar.
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How to solidify melted chocolate?
I am scared that the chocolate will stick to the counter top (in plastic) or the sheet pan.
Don't do it on the counter top. The best surface would be a silicone mat from a baking store - a smooth ...
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How to make Instant Hot Chocolate Taste Less Watery
I can think of four possible fixes. One is simply, use less water - a smaller amount of a richer drink may well be preferable to a larger amount of a watery drink. Another is the reverse, use more ...
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How to make cocoa powder soluble in water or milk without sugar?
After some bickering & refusal to believe simple 'science' in comments…
Cocoa powder is insoluble - no matter what you do, it will never dissolve. You could grind it to the finest powder known to ...
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How to make cocoa powder soluble in water or milk without sugar?
As already answered, it does not dissolve anyway. It's a suspension of fine particulates.
Practical methods to make it clump less (other than mixing with sugar) are:
use hot liquid (hot cocoa is ...
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How to make cocoa powder soluble in water or milk without sugar?
Cocoa is not soluble in milk. However, you can control the sedimentation by increasing the thickness of the milk, or decreasing the size of the cocoa particles. Non-dairy milks can help with this as ...
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How to make Instant Hot Chocolate Taste Less Watery
The first solution is to use two sachets per cup instead of one. The second is to ditch the sachets and simply use chocolate. The sachets themselves are a mixture of cocoa powder with fillers, mostly ...
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How to make Instant Hot Chocolate Taste Less Watery
I have found that different brands of hot chocolate drinks have varying chocolate flavor intensities (some are much stronger than others) Try using the different ones that are availble in your ...
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How to make Instant Hot Chocolate Taste Less Watery
I won’t lie this is not my favorite hot chocolate I’ve ever had, but we’re out of milk right now and I really got used to milk instead of water with the coco. So I took some advice from here and this ...
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Why is my hot chocolate gritty?
Absent of seeing your hot chocolate preparation directly, I think it is hard to tell what specifically is wrong. I'm going to offer some more things that you can try. If all of these fail I think you ...
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Does brewing hot chocolate for longer hours make a difference?
Cacao powder is not very soluble in water, so I'm gonna go out on a limb here and guess that the extra time allows for the cacao to incorporate better into the liquid.
The recipe includes actual ...
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Were are they? Are there even any?
In general to make yogurt you need 4 things - milk, a culture, temperature and time.
You can obtain a culture from any live-culture yogurt you can get from the supermarket. Look for ones that ...
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Cocoa powder stays stuck at the bottom of the cup
Mix your cocoa powder with your cold milk before adding the hot liquid, while stiring.
That way most of the cocoa powder should get into the drink.
But water, cocoa powder and a little milk will not ...
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Cocoa powder stays stuck at the bottom of the cup
Cocoa powder does not dissolve in liquid, it prefers fatty liquids like milk.
You need to create a liquid think enough so that the cocoa particles stay suspended in it.
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For microwave hot chocolate, why pour the hot milk into the chocolate rather than mixing the milk with chocolate then heating?
You were using real cocoa powder, not an instant drink. You probably cooked it in the microwave, or at least part of it. When milk over the powder, it was certainly not hot enough to cook the powder. ...
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How to make Instant Hot Chocolate Taste Less Watery
I used to be in the same predicament as you and I used 1/2 liquid coffee creamer and 1/2 boiling hot water and then it tasted just right. (Both temperature and taste)
I was told off by the boss after ...
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Can I make milk hot chocolate out of dark chocolate and sugar?
Your premise appears to be that the difference between milk chocolate and dark chocolate is merely milk and sugar content, such that if one blends all three together, in any order or manner, the ...
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How to solidify melted chocolate?
It sounds like you are making a 'bark'. When you said you had a 'large amount' of chocolate, I'm hoping you mean ounces and not kilos.
When I melt 16 ounces, it takes about two minutes in the ...
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Why does whipped Cream sometimes sink in warm beverages?
Heavy cream should be lightly whipped, still in a somewhat pourable state. If it is over-whipped, it will have more of a tendency to sink.
The beverage should be at least slightly sweetened with ...
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