About the dark chocolate
From About.com:
"Dark chocolate is chocolate without milk solids added. Dark chocolate
has a more pronounced chocolate taste than milk chocolate, because it does not
contain milk solids to compete with the chocolate taste. However, the lack of
milk additives also means that dark chocolate is more prone to a dry, chalky
texture and a bitter aftertaste.
The basic ingredients in dark chocolate bars are cacao beans, sugar, an emulsifier
such as soy lecithin to preserve texture, and flavorings such as vanilla. Dark
chocolate is often distinguished by the percentage of cocoa solids in the bar.
The cocoa content of commercial dark chocolate bars can range from 30% (sweet
dark) to 70%, 75%, or even above 80% for extremely dark bars. Common terms used
to distinguish the cocoa content of dark chocolate bars include bittersweet,
semi-sweet, and sweet dark chocolate."
Dark chocolate, also know as "Bittersweet chocolate", "semi-sweet
chocolate", "sweet dark chocolate", "black chocolate"
and "plain chocolate", is mostly used for baking and cooking (in fact
I haven't still found a recipe asking milk chocolate... :P) and it's the only
chocolate recognized by chocolate lovers (like drinking dark unsweetened coffe
for the real coffe
Some studies proved that Dark chocolate have healthy benefits for high
pressure and can help fighting heart diseases because of the antioxidants
content. Dark chocolate also doesn't contain cholesterol and it's less
calorific than milk or white chocolate bars.
While The U.S. Government has no definition for dark chocolate and doesn't have
milk restrictions (only requiring a 15% concentration of chocolate liquor),
the dark chocolate we all know usually follow European rules, which specify
a considered minimum of 35% cocoa solids and no milk as additive.
Give dark chocolate a try, and you won't be able to get back to the "surrogate"
milk version. :D
To know more about this delicious food, here some useful links.
- Wikipedia
- Fine dark chocolate,
a site all dedicated to chocolate with toons of info.
- Lindt
& Sprüngli: Secrets of chocolate, a useful guide from one of
the most famous chocolate and dark chocolate brand.
- How
to taste the dark chocolate. Lindt own guide on the same matter here.
- The
healthy dark chocolate
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Why this fanlisting?
As a dark chocolate addicted, I couldn't really resist when Manda put this
fanlisting up for adoption: I'm not interested in owning Food fanlistings, but
for dark chocolate I can make an exception. ^^
After getting an approval for Manda, I considered offering Saya the co-owning,
since I know she's a dark chocolate lover as me. ^^
About the site
"Dark pleasure" - All graphic and content © by Hakka
& Saya.
Images are © of their respective owner.
Opened 21st January 2007 by Manda,
owned by Hakka & Saya since 04th January 2010.
Worked on the images with Paint shop pro 7 and Photoshop CS2/CS4.
The title... well, explains itself. Aaaand, both me and Saya immediately thought
the same title without being in chat or such: what a telephatic minds! XD.
Past versions
Version two.
Skin 2, by Saya.
Version one.
Skin 1, by Hakka.
Credits
- Images from Google and Gettyimages.
- Brushed for Skin1 from Hybrid
genesis.
- Scripts: Indiscripts
for Enthustiast 3 and Member list counts add-on, edited by me with a more Fanbase
style and the addition of the memberid field. Thanxs to Jamie
from Codegrrl staff for helping me making the ID show. ♥
- The fanlisting
Network: for the idea of a fanlisting and for listing and approving
this one (thanks all the Staffer army! *bows*).
- Manda: for letting
us adopt this fanlisting. *hughs*
Contact
You can use the form you find in the collective, if you want to affiliate.
Or mail Hakka at hakka{@}snakes-and-dragons.org.
Disclaimer
This is just a fanlisting, a site made by fans to simply list fans of this
subject.
Pictures are copyright by their real owners, while all the graphics and contents
are by Hakka and Saya.
