Milk chocolate containing water
AssigneeNestec S.A.
InventorsStephen Thomas Beckett, Daniel Hugelshofer, Junkuan Wang, Erich Josef Windhab
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Abstract
A process for manufacturing milk chocolate products containing a higher than normal water content by preparing a dark chocolate containing up to 30% by weight of water, adding a milk powder suspension optionally together with seed crystals of cocoa butter or cocoa butter equivalent, and mixing under low shear. The invention also relates to high water content milk chocolate products, methods of preparing a chocolate coated ice cream article with such products and to the resulting chocolate coated ice cream articles.
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A process for manufacturing a milk chocolate product that contains a higher than normal water content, which comprises preparing a dark chocolate containing up to 30% by weight of water, combining a milk powder suspension with the dark chocolate to form a mixture, and mixing the mixture under low shear to form the milk chocolate product.
A milk chocolate product containing higher than normal amounts of water and less than normal amounts of fat and sugar.
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