white chocolate
9
1.2
- noun
- /ˈwaɪt ˈtʃɔk.lət/
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chocolate blanco
- Grab your favorite white chocolate and break that into a heat resistant bowl.
- white chocolate mousse
- white chocolate cream
- white chocolate chips
This is Turkey because I'm tasting white chocolate and milk chocolate.
- This is Turkey because I'm tasting white chocolate and milk chocolate.
- I'm just using easy Hershey Kisses and white chocolate melts.
- Gingerbread flavoured gingerbread NYC cookies with white chocolate chips.
- This one smells like peppermint bark, like white chocolate and peppermint.
- This came with Raspberry and vanilla bean white chocolate.
- You can fill them with chocolate, white chocolate.
- This is the white chocolate matcha.
Examples
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The first thing she'd do was spend five dollars on macadamia white chocolate chip cookies.
Fiction book (1994) -
-Would you like to try some white chocolate?
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Come get a piece of this white chocolate.
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Here, try the white chocolate.
Fiction book (1993) -
My youngest loves white chocolate, so I'll have to go look that up.
Blog text (14) -
We are gonna make some s'mores using white chocolate.
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This is a red velvet brownie with white chocolate chips.
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But the first thing that we're making is this Raspberry white chocolate chip muffin.
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Look, we've even got white chocolate cheesecake for dessert.
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We are gonna make some s'mores using white chocolate.
How Dark
14
1.6
2
2.1
888
1.0
5
1.0
9
1.2
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a sweet pale confection' is directly and predictably derived from combining 'white' (a color/pale) with 'chocolate' (a confection), so a B1 learner who knows both words will infer it is the white-colored variety of chocolate. This is a straightforward noun–noun/adj+noun composition found across languages; the technical detail that it lacks cocoa solids is specialized and does not prevent basic comprehension.
Etymology
White chocolate gets its name from the pale fat of the cocoa bean, called cocoa butter, which is mixed with milk and sugar but has no dark cocoa pieces, the 'cocoa solids'. That's why it looks light and sweet instead of the usual brown chocolate.