Interesting facts about your favourite Choco chips
Interesting facts about your favourite Choco chips
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We all love choco chips which are small and tasty bits of chocolate. In the market, they are available in different size from large to miniature. Circular, conical, square, rectangular, chocolate chips can be formed in any shape and size. They are made up of a smaller amount of cocoa butter than cooking chocolate. While buying make sure they are nice, glossy and smooth. They shouldn't be blemished, grainy or with a greasy texture.

Types
Chocolate chips were originally made in a single flavour. But there are many new varieties which have been added. There is dark chocolate, bittersweet chocolate, peanut butter, mint, butterscotch, milk chocolate and white chocolate chips as well.

Usage
Most commonly used in cookies. The chocolate chip cookie is an American favourite. Chocolate chips have found a presence in a variety of items such as waffles, cakes, ice-creams, crepes, puddings, muffins, pies, hot chocolates, milkshakes, pancakes, granola bars and of course cookies.

Why are chocolate chips prefered
One may wonder why they do not melt while baking in the oven. The truth is that they do melt but tend to retain their shape. If you try to break apart a chocolate chip just out of the oven you will notice that it's melted. Since they retain their shape on melting they are preferred in desserts than chocolate pieces that would completely melt on baking.

Interesting to Know - 
The first chocolate chip was invented in 1930 by Ruth Wakefield by cutting open a chocolate bar and adding it to a rich butter cookie dough to make chocolate chip cookies. This recipe was soon discovered by Nestle and it bought the rights to the recipe and released the first chocolate bits in 1939 with Ruth Wakefield's name at the back of the cover.

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