cooking chocolate
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- noun
- /ˈkʊkɪŋ ˈtʃɔkələt/
- UK
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chocolate para cocinar
- Make sure to use cooking chocolate instead of regular chocolate for a better flavor in your brownies.
Examples
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Chocolate in any form, including cocoa powder, cooking chocolate, semi-sweet morsels, milk chocolate, and dark chocolate.
Blog text (19) -
For my cake recipe, I need a bar of cooking chocolate to melt into the batter.
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She added some cooking chocolate to the heated cream to make a rich ganache.
Synonyms
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A kind of chocolate that has lots of cocoa, little or no milk, and less sugar than milk chocolate
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A type of chocolate that is not very sweet and is good for baking
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Chocolate with no sugar used to make cakes, icings, and candies
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A very dark chocolate with little or no sugar used for baking and sauces
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Morphology
The meaning 'chocolate used for cooking or baking' is directly derivable from combining 'cooking' (relating to preparing food) with 'chocolate' so the first noun clearly modifies the second to indicate intended use. This modifier–head compound pattern is common and cross-linguistically transparent, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Cooking chocolate probably comes from the plain idea of chocolate made to be used in the kitchen. The words cooking and chocolate show its use: it is the chocolate you melt and add to recipes rather than the sweet chocolate you eat, so today it means the kind used 'for cooking' or 'for baking'.