How Do You Substitute Bittersweet Chocolate For Unsweetened Chocolate?
Bakers use chocolate in many forms, such as cocoa powder, unsweetened blocks and bittersweet chocolate chips. These different forms of chocolate vary in content, so you should not substitute one for the other without knowing what else in the recipe needs to be adjusted to accommodate the change. Since unsweetened chocolate is almost 100 percent cacao and bittersweet chocolate is around 60 percent cacao (which the rest being sugar), you must follow some simple rules to determine how to substitute one for the other in a recipe. Determine how much unsweetened chocolate the recipe requires. For example, a chocolate cake recipe might call for 6 ounces of unsweetened chocolate, which is essentially 6 ounces of cacao. Figure out how much bittersweet chocolate would contain the same amount of cacao as the unsweetened chocolate called for. In the example, you would need 10 ounces of bittersweet chocolate, which contains 6 ounces of cacao. Calculate how much sugar is added to the recipe by using
