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Default Chocolate: Milk vs. semisweet?


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> Well, I looked in the supermarket and in Wikipedia, for one - and it looks
> as though on-sale chocolate bunnies are only useful if the recipe calls
> for milk chocolate. For one thing, Wikipedia implies that milk chocolate
> is often only 10% chocolate liquor.
>
> Also, while Baker's Chocolate is over $9 a pound (both unsweetened and
> semisweet!), generic chocolate candy bars can hover around $4 a pound -
> which is pretty much the same as on-sale bunnies. Plus, while generic
> chocolate chips are not the same as semisweet bars (in the former, the
> first ingredient is sugar, but that's the second ingredient in the
> latter), those cost distinctly less than $4 a pound.


You could always use them to make haystacks or clusters.