cocoa butter

     

Cocoa butter, also calle theobroma oil, is the pale-yellow, pure edible vegetable fat of the cacao bean. It is the substance used to make solid chocolate bars. It is mixed with varying amounts of cocoa powder to produce solid pieces of chocolate. Cocoa butter is extracted from the cacao beans and can be used to make chocolate, cocoa powder, pharmaceuticals, ointments, and toiletries. Cocoa butter has a mild chocolate flavor and aroma.

Trivia about cocoa butter

  • This vegetable fat used in soap & cosmetics is a by-product of the chocolate industry
  • Candymakers know that the fat obtained from cocoa beans isn't called cocoa margarine but this
  • This 'butter" is extracted from beans during the chocolate-making process
  • It's the fat extracted from the beans used to make chocolate; turns out it softens & lubricates the skin
  • In the '40s Hershey supplied this dairy-sounding byproduct to companies like the makers of Coppertone
  • In the chocolate-making process, high pressure is used to remove this fatty substance used in cosmetics
  • Good modeling chocolate has a high content of this fatty solid that comes from the seeds of the bean

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