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Three tablespoons of cocoa and one tablespoon of shortening is equal to one square of unsweetened chocolate. If your recipe calls for unsweetened chocolate it should work. If it calls for semi sweet or milk chocolate, you would not be able to add enough sugar to sweeten unsweetened chocolate. The end product would be too bitter.
Yes! For each ounce of unsweetened chocolates (where 1 ounce = 1 square), you can use 1 2/3 ounces of semisweet chocolate AND reduce the amount of sugar that is being used in the recipe by 2 teaspoons. 1 square = 1 ounce = 1/3 cup of chocolate chips That conversion, though, is a bit tricky. If you do not have unsweetened chocolate, it is actually easier to substitute it the following way: For each ounce of unsweetened chocolate, use 3 tablespoons of unsweetened cocoa AND 1 tablespoon or either butter, margarine, or shortening.
Sometimes, but it depends on what materials are being used exactly. If taking out Baking Chocolate squares, you have to use baking Chocolate Chips, not just average chocolate chips or else the recipe will not be correct. Another view: I've found that choc. chips usually substitute pretty well for chocolate squares. Just keep in mind that most chocolate chips are "semi-sweet" while chocolate squares may be "bitter-sweet" or completely "unsweetened." If the recipe calls for unsweetened squares, your product will turn out rather sweeter than the recipe intends. If you look on the chocolate chip package, you may find the equivalent listed.
Sometimes, but it depends on what materials are being used exactly. If taking out baking chocolate squares, you have to use baking chocolate chips, not just average chocolate chips or else the recipe will not be correct. Another view: I've found that choc. chips usually substitute pretty well for chocolate squares. Just keep in mind that most chocolate chips are "semi-sweet" while chocolate squares may be "bitter-sweet" or completely "unsweetened." If the recipe calls for unsweetened squares, your product will turn out rather sweeter than the recipe intends. If you look on the chocolate chip package, you may find the equivalent listed.
In most recipes you can use an equivalent amount of dried fruit, like raisins, nuts or another flavor of chips like peanut butter, cinnamon or vanilla chips. Obviously this will not work in a recipe that calls for melting the chips to get a chocolate flavor in the recipe. If the recipe calls for melting the chocolate chips- you can use 3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder, 3 tablespoons sugar and 1 tablespoon butter or margarine for every 1 ounces of semi-sweet baking chocolate needed.
In cookie recipes, the recipe probably means semi-sweet chocolate chips. Bakers' chocolate, which is usually unsweetened, would be far too bitter. But you have a lot of choices, depending on the taste you want in your cookies. Semi-sweet chocolate chips tend to be the most popular, but you could choose chocolate mint chips, peanut butter, butterscotch, white chocolate chips or chocolate pieces of various sizes, from mini-chips to the larger "chunks."
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You can, but you will not like the result. It will be bitter and you really cannot add enough sugar to compensate for it.
I have substituted apple juice for almost any recipe that calls for apple cider. Cider tends to have more of a 'bite' to it because it is not filtered. It is usually darker and may change the visual asthetics of a recipe but it shouldn't alter the taste. In most states, there is no distinction between apple cider and apple juice, unless you are refering to an alcoholic version of cider in which case, maybe a dry white wine could be substituted.
Since semi-sweet and milk chocolate are very similar, you can interchange one for the other in most any recipe. Simply use the same amount that is called for in the recipe, just with the different type of chocolate and it should be fine. For example, if the recipe calls for 8 ounces of semi-sweet chocolate chips, instead just use 8 ounces of milk chocolate chips.
I have a Dutch Process Cocoa Mix that is unsweetened and my recipe calls for Dutch Process Cocoa, can I use it? How and where do you find Dutch Process Cocoa?The 'Standard' Hershey's Cocoa is not Duch Processed, therefore it will have a lower pH than another Cocoa that has been duch processed.This can effect your recipe in many ways, most siginifically it will cause any baked good to set more rapidly.If you want a Duch Processed Hershey product please get their 'Special Dark Cocoa'. This product of thiers has been duch processed and will be totaly interchangable with any recipe calling for this form of Cocoa.Good Luck and thanks for playing.
You have two thirds if the required amount.