Best Brands for Cooking with Chocolate

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Baking-resistant chocolate, such as chocolate chips, has less cocoa butter than other forms of chocolate, making it harder for the chocolate to melt when exposed to heat.

To add even more to this confusion, Baker's Chocolate, which comes in bars of unsweetened, bittersweet and semisweet forms, is also a popular brand name that is carried by most grocery stores for baking.

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If all of this has you wondering where to begin with your delicious chocolate sweet treats, rest assured that most recipes state the exact type of chocolate the recipe requires.

Beyond Baker's Chocolate brand, another popular baking chocolate manufacturer is Ghirardelli, which you may also be able to purchase at your local grocery store. Other brands that you might like to try include Scharffen Berger, Callebaut or Valrhona Manjari.

Best Brands for Cocoa

You should be able to find Nestle, Hershey's and Ghirardelli's unsweetened cocoa at your local grocery store. Valrohona Manjari and Scharffen Berger also offer unsweetened cocoa.

Best Brands for Semisweet Chocolate Chips

Grocery stores generally carry Nestle Semisweet Chocolate Chips, a perennial favorite for the company's famous Tollhouse chocolate chip cookie recipe. Other brands that are delicious and readily available include Hershey's and Ghirardelli's.