white chocolates

Ivory cocoa butter treats

White chocolates are confections made from cocoa butter, sugar, and milk solids but no cocoa solids—the component that makes regular chocolate brown and bitter.

The pale, sweet result divides opinion: purists argue it isn't true chocolate, while fans appreciate its creamy mildness.

She prefers white chocolates to dark.

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chocolate color/type

white chocolatesdark chocolates

Cocoa-heavy candy variety

dark chocolate · semisweet chocolates · baking chocolate · milk chocolates · cocoa

cocoa intensity

white chocolatesbaker's chocolate

Unsweetened cocoa solids for cooking

bittersweet chocolate

Family

white, chocolate, whiter, whitest, whiten, whitened, whitening, whitener, whiteness

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Top 100,000
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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G