Baking Chocolate Substitution

By Hklbrries

Dear Readers: Did you know that you can substitute cocoa and one other ingredient for baking chocolate? What's the other ingredient? Solid vegetable shortening. Three tablespoons of cocoa plus 1 tablespoon of solid vegetable shortening equals 1 ounce of baking chocolate. Vegetable oil also can be used!

We tested this, and the vegetable oil mixture is, as you might expect, a liquid consistency, and the shortening version is more solid.

Also, the date on the cocoa is a freshness date, not an expiration date. Nothing in cocoa will actually spoil or go bad, so you can use it past this date.

Heloise

Ingredients

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Preparation

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