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noun sweet brown food ADJ. dark, plain | milk | white | bitter | cooking QUANT. bar, slab | bit, piece, square He broke off a few squares of chocolate. | box I gave her a box of hand-made Belgian chocolates. VERB + CHOCOLATE eat, have | break (up) into pieces/squares She broke a bar of dark chocolate into four pieces. | grate | melt Melt 100g of cooking chocolate in a basin over hot water. | coat/cover sth in/with, dip sth in, spread/sprinkle (sth with) a box of brazil nuts coated in chocolate CHOCOLATE + VERB melt Stir until the chocolate has melted. CHOCOLATE + NOUN bar, chip | biscuit, cake, eclair, egg, gateau, ice cream, mousse, sauce | factoryFOOD small sweet made from chocolate ADJ. soft-centred | hand-made QUANT. box CHOCOLATE + NOUN box drink made from powdered chocolate ADJ. hot | drinking QUANT. cup, mug
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chocolate
types of chocolate
milk chocolate
(= chocolate with milk added to it )
• ice-cream inside a milk chocolate coating
dark chocolate
( also plain chocolate British English ) (= without milk and with very little sugar )
• strawberries dipped in dark chocolate
white chocolate
(= white in colour, with a sweet milky taste )
• Serve the cake with a white chocolate sauce.
bitter chocolate
(= dark chocolate with a strong sharp taste )
• Bitter chocolate may be added to meat sauces for extra flavour.
cooking chocolate
(= chocolate to use in cooking )
• Melt the cooking chocolate and spread it over the tray.
melted chocolate
• Stir in the eggs and the melted chocolate.
phrases
a bar of chocolate
(= a long block of chocolate )
• He bought a Coke and a bar of chocolate.
a piece/bit of chocolate
• Would you like a piece of chocolate?
a box of chocolates
(= a box of small sweets covered with chocolate )
• I gave Mum a box of chocolates for her birthday.
a slab of chocolate
(= a large flat piece )
• They shared a large slab of chocolate.
a square of chocolate
(= a small square piece )
• I only ate one small square of chocolate.
chocolate + NOUN
a chocolate cake/biscuit/pudding etc
• For her birthday he made a chocolate cake.
chocolate chips
(= very small pieces of chocolate )
• vanilla ice cream with chocolate chips
a chocolate factory
• My dream job would be working in a chocolate factory.
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