Well, many people argue that because white chocolate has cocoa butter, it must be chocolate. But, technically, and legally, that just isn't enough to call it chocolate. If it doesn't have cocoa powder, it likely isn't chocolate, and white chocolate just doesn't. Cocoa butter "doesn’t contain any of the flavor-giving cocoa solids" (Michael Laiskonis*). In fact is really just "edible vegetable fat extracted from the cocoa bean" (USDA). The butter is combined with milk powder and also sugar to turn it into what we call white chocolate. But, let's be honest. Whether or not it's "real chocolate" isn't going to make us stop calling it chocolate. To most of us, it still is, and always will be chocolate.
*Creative director of the Institute for Culinary Education
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