Ingredient

Chocolate

Chocolate is made from ground, roasted cocoa beans. It has a silky texture and is used in baking.

Made from: Cocoa bean
Part used: Seed
Texture: Silky
Cooked most in: The Americas, Asia, Europe
Top country: United States
Dishes: 5 in the catalogue

Photo: Mx. Granger · CC0 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons

In the kitchen

How to use chocolate

Typical ways to cook or use it

Bake

Cooking with it

Retemper bloomed chocolate, or melt it for another use.

Flavour

Taste and texture

Texture

Silky

Around the world

Where chocolate is cooked

5 dishes in the catalogue use chocolate. Here is where they come from.

Dishes by continent

Countries whose dishes use it most

Counts are catalogued dishes from each country that list chocolate among their ingredients.

Origins

The 1500s · Europe
Chocolate was introduced to Europe as a drink.
The 1600s · Europe
Chocolate spread through Europe, where it was served warm with sugar and spices.

On the table

Dishes made with chocolate

4 of the 5 catalogued dishes that use it, spread across the countries they come from.

Bakpia
China, Indonesia
S'more
United States
Chocolate pizza
United States
Chocolate cake

Dish lists come from Wikidata; a dish counts when its recorded ingredients include chocolate.

Family

Related forms

Made from: cocoa bean (ground, roasted)
Kinds: dark chocolate

Around the world

What chocolate is called

Names in 189 languages, from Wikidata.

Spanish
chocolate
French
chocolat
Italian
cioccolato
Portuguese
chocolate
German
Schokolade · Schoki · Schoko
Dutch
chocolade · chocola
Greek
σοκολάτα
Turkish
çikolata · itimil
Russian
шоколад
Polish
czekolada
Arabic
شوكولاتة · شوكولاتا · شيكولاتة · شوكولا
Persian
شکلات

Show all 189 languages

acm
كاكاو · ككو
Afrikaans
sjokolade
Albanian
çokollatë · çokollata
Algerian Arabic
شيكولا
Amharic
ቸኮላታ
Aragonese
chicolate
Armenian
շոկոլադ
Aromanian
ciuculatâ
Assamese
চকলেট
Asturian
chicolate
Atikamekw
kokocimiko
Aymara
chukulati
azb
شوکولات
Azerbaijani
şokolad
Bangla
চকলেট
Banjar
suklat
Bashkir
шоколад
Basque
txokolate
Bavarian
Schogglad
Belarusian
шакалад
Belarusian (Taraskievica orthography)
шакаляд · чакаляда
Bhojpuri
चॉकलेट
Bikol
tsokolate
Bosnian
čokolada
Brazilian Portuguese
chocolate
Breton
chokolad
Bulgarian
шоколад
Burmese
ချောကလက်
Cantonese
朱古力
Catalan
xocolata · xocolate
Cebuano
sikwate
Central Kurdish
چۆکلێت
Chechen
шоколад
Chinese
巧克力 · 朱古力 · 支龜力
Chuvash
Шăккалат
Cornish
choklet
Corsican
cicculata
Crimean Tatar
şokolad
Croatian
čokolada
Czech
čokoláda
Danish
chokolade
Egyptian Arabic
شوكولاته
eml
cicoleta
Esperanto
ĉokolado
Estonian
šokolaad
Extremaduran
chocolati
Faroese
sjokuláta
Fiji Hindi
chocolate
Filipino
tsokolate
Finnish
suklaa
Friulian
cjocolate
Galician
chocolate
Georgian
შოკოლადი
Guarani
chokora
Gujarati
ચોકલિટ્
Haitian Creole
chokola
Hakka Chinese
巧克力
Hebrew
שוקולד
Hindi
चॉकलेट
Hungarian
csokoládé · csoki
hyw
տուրմ
Icelandic
súkkulaði
Ido
chokolado
Iloko
tsokolate
Indonesian
cokelat
Interlingua
chocolate
Irish
seacláid
Japanese
チョコレート
Javanese
coklat · soklat
Kabyle
Ccakula
Kannada
ಚಾಕಲಿಟ್ · ಚಾಕೋಲೆಟ್
Kanuri
Chocolate
Kara-Kalpak
shokolad
Kashmiri
چاکلیٹ
Kashubian
szekòlôda
Kazakh
шоколад
kge
Sikolat
Khmer
ស៊ុកូឡា · Chocolate · សូកូឡា
Kinaray-a
tsokolate
Korean
초콜릿
Korean (North Korea)
쵸콜레트
Kurdish
çoklata
Kyrgyz
шоколад
Ladino
chikolata
Lao
ໂຊໂກລາ · ຊັອກໂກແລັດ
Latin
socolata
Latvian
šokolāde
Limburgish
sjoekelaat
Lingala
sokolá
Lingua Franca Nova
xocolada
Lithuanian
šokoladas
Lojban
cakla
Lombard
scicolatt · cicolat
Low German
Schokolaad
Low Saxon
sokkeloa
Lower Sorbian
šokolada
Lule Sami
sjokoláda
Luxembourgish
Schockela
Macedonian
чоколадо · чоколада
Madurese
Sokklat
Malagasy
sokola
Malay
coklat · cokelat · cekelat
Malayalam
ചോക്ലേറ്റ് · ചോക്കലേറ്റ്
Maltese
ċikkulata
Manx
shocklaid
Māori
tiakarete
Marathi
चॉकलेट
Mazanderani
شکولاد
Min Nan Chinese
chi-ku-la̍t · tsi-ku-la̍t · 支龜力
Minangkabau
cokelat
Mongolian
шоколад
Moroccan Arabic
شكلاط
nah
xocolātl
Neapolitan
ciucculato
Nepali
चकलेट
Newari
चकलेट · चकलेत
Northern Frisian
Sakelaad
Norwegian Bokmål
sjokolade · Sjokolade
Norwegian Nynorsk
sjokolade
Novial
chokolate
nrm
chocolat
Occitan
chocolat
Odia
ଚୋକୋଲେଟ
Old English
ceocōlāte
olo
šokoluadu
Ossetic
шоколад
Papiamento
chukulati
Piedmontese
cicolata
Punjabi
ਚਾਕਲੇਟ · ਚੌਕਲੇਟ
Quechua
chukulati
Romanian
ciocolată
Rusyn
Чоколад · Чоколада
Samoan
sukalati
Samogitian
čėkuolads
Scots
chocolate
Scottish Gaelic
teòclaid
Serbian
чоколада
Serbian (Cyrillic)
чоколада
Serbian (Latin)
čokolada
Serbian (Latin)
čokolada
Shan
ၶျွၵ်ႉၵလႅတ်ႉ
Sicilian
cioccolatti
Silesian
szekulada
Simplified Chinese
巧克力
Simplified Chinese (China)
巧克力
Simplified Chinese (Malaysia)
巧克力
Simplified Chinese (Singapore)
巧克力
Sindhi
چاڪليٽ
Sinhala
චොකලට්
Slovak
čokoláda
Slovenian
čokolada
Somali
chocolate · Shukulaato
Southern Sami
sjokolaade
Southern Sotho
tshokolete
Sranan Tongo
sukruskrati
Sundanese
coklat
Swahili
chokoleti
Swedish
choklad
Swiss German
Schokolade
Swiss High German
Schokolade
Tajik
шакалод
Tamil
சாக்கலேட்
Tatar
шоколад
Tatar (Cyrillic)
шоколад
Telugu
చాక్లెట్ · చాకొలెట్
Tetum
xoklate
Thai
ช็อกโกแลต · ช็อคโกแลต
Toki Pona
suwi pimeja
Traditional Chinese
巧克力
Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong SAR China)
朱古力
Traditional Chinese (Macao SAR China)
朱古力
Traditional Chinese (Taiwan)
巧克力
Turkmen
şokolad
Tuvinian
Шоколад
Udmurt
шоколад
Ukrainian
шоколад
Upper Sorbian
šokolada
Urdu
چاکلیٹ
Uyghur
شاكىلات
Uzbek
shokolad
Venetian
ciocolatin
Veps
šokolad
Vietnamese
sô-cô-la · sôcôla · súc-cù-là · súc cù là
Waray
sikolate
Welsh
siocled
Western Frisian
sûkelarje
Western Panjabi
چاکلیٹ
Wolof
sokolaa
Wu Chinese
巧克力
Yakut
сакалаат
Yiddish
שאקאלאד
Zhuang
Giujhaeklig · chocolate
Zulu
shokoledi

Sources and credits

Data

GlobeCooks editorial: descriptions, kitchen notes and classification, written by GlobeCooks from checked sources
Wikidata: names, classification and dishes (CC0 1.0)
Wikimedia Commons: photos
Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Wikidata item: Q195

Photos