TMB Studio Homemade Peanut Butter CupsI like using pretty mini muffin liners and topping these homemade peanut butter cups with colored sprinkles to coordinate with the holiday we're celebrating. This is evidenced in our winners, above: although semisweet is generally thought of as having less cacao and more sugar than bittersweet, Scharffen Berger's semisweet contains 62% cacao solids, while Ghirardelli's bittersweet contains just 60%. People can't believe how simple it is to make this irresistible candy with gooey peanut butter centers. These chocolate chips are sugar-free, which means they are healthy and won’t lead to obesity and other diseases.

Hershey’s is a top brand in the market, so there is no doubt that these semi sweet chocolate chips are up to the mark. These chips gained high marks for their deep chocolate flavor; a taste reminiscent of the dark chocolates in your favorite box of Valentine’s Day candy. Add the chocolate chips to the heatproof bowl and place it on top of the pot – the bottom of the bowl should not be touching the water and should cover the entire opening of the pot.Rather than sprinkling the chocolate tips with nuts, you can roll them in red and green jimmies or leave them plain. Our supermilk recipe blends 65% cocoa with a splash of milk and less sugar than a typical dark chocolate bar.

Enjoy Life Semi-Sweet Mini Chocolate Chips are free of gluten, dairy and other common allergens like nuts and soy. Good for kids, yes, but these won't exactly make you feel like you're enjoying something extraordinary or even remotely challenging to your palate. When the chip was eaten by itself, a couple tasters commented on an “odd, nutty” aftertaste and a “strange oiliness. These chocolate chips are safe to eat and healthy; they are made of natural ingredients and contain no artificial food coloring.

They're every bit as tasty and nostalgic as we remembered, though they did pale when directly compared to the heavy hitters. We use them by the bucketful in our test kitchen for cookies, brownies, and more and we'll admit to sneaking handfuls for snacks, too. All samples were tasted by a panel of Epicurious editors in a blind tasting and no distinction was made between organic and non-organic products during testing.

We believe the best chocolate strikes a perfect balance between gentle sweetness and deep cocoa notes, whether it’s white, milk, or dark. Taste of Home Hazelnut Cake SquaresWhen one of my daughters is asked to bring a dish to a church function, a birthday party or any special occasion, she asks me for this recipe. Our Test Kitchen team stuck to semisweet chips here because it’s the most common chocolate chip used in dessert recipes. To make it, you can use dark chocolate with a higher cocoa percentage or use semi-sweet chocolate if you find 70% a little too intense. Josh Rink in the Test Kitchen had this to say: “This chip is the prettiest to look at: nicely shaped, dark color and absolutely no flaws.Aldi includes melting instructions, just like Ghirardelli does, but the resemblance between the two brands ends there. These are the sorts of chips that would be welcome in any semisweet chocolate recipe but would be particularly welcome in this one-bowl chocolate chip bread recipe (it has five stars! Much sweeter” than most others, these chips were described as tasting “like an Easter bunny” and smelling “like the hard chocolate shell of an ice cream bar. Semi-sweet bars are between 35 and 65% cocoa solids, meaning that they are indeed a kind of dark chocolate.

Taste of Home Cherry Upside-Down Bread PuddingI've always loved bread pudding, and I enjoy fixing this for my family on a chilly day.Overall, these chips have a depth of complex flavor that would be especially pleasing to more adult palettes—though no kiddo would turn down a batch of monster cookies made with these Ghirardelli chips. Chocolate chips were created with the invention of chocolate chip cookies in 1937 when Ruth Graves Wakefield of the Toll House Inn in the town of Whitman, Massachusetts added cut-up chunks of a semi-sweet Nestlé chocolate bar to a cookie recipe. Alongside sugar percentages, the amount of cocoa solids in a chocolate bar can determine whether it is considered semi-sweet. It was more of a vague, nonchalant sort of soft spot, a casual relationship as opposed to true, deep love. But as chocolate labeling gets more and more specific and consumers start to identify with cacao percentages rather than just names, that brings up the question of what exactly semisweet chocolate is.