Guittard Organic Akoma Extra Semisweet 55% Cacao Baking Chips 340g

Recipes
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chocolate chip cookies with crispy edges and chewy centres, Makes 60 2-inch cookies.

250g unsifted all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
170g unsalted butter, softened
220g firmly packed brown sugar
150g cups granulated sugar
1 teaspoon salt
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
340g Guittard Akoma Extra Semisweet Chocolate Chips

Preheat oven to 190°C. Line cookie sheets with parchment or use ungreased. In a small bowl combine flour and baking powder, Set aside, In a large bowl cream butter, sugars and salt until light. Beat in eggs and vanilla until smooth. Mix in flour just until combined; stir in chips. Drop by rounded teaspoonfuls onto cookie sheets, allowing 2 inches between cookies. Baked 10-12 minutes or until golden brown around edges. Cool on baking sheet several minutes before transferring to racks to cool completely.

Chocolate Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Filling
A brownie-like cupcake that's creamy and delicious. Makes 12.

250g Guittard Akoma Extra Semisweet Chocolate Chips
110g butter
100g cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
3 large eggs
100g unsifted all-purpose flour

Filling:
110g cream cheese, softened
2 tablespoons sugar
85g Guittard Akoma Extra Semisweet Chocolate Chips

Cream softened cream cheese and sugar in small bowl, mixing until smooth. Stir in 1/2 cup chips. Set aside. Preheat oven to 190°C. Line 12 muffin forms with paper liners. Melt chips and butter until smooth. Beat in sugar and vanilla, then eggs until glossy. Stir in flour just until incorporated. Using about half of the batter, cover the bottoms of each muffin cup less than half way. Scoop a heaping tablespoon of cream cheese filling into the centre of each cup. Top with remaining half of batter. Bake about 25 minutes or until tops are puffy and cracked. It is best not to over bake. Serve warm or cool on rack.

Find more recipes in the Guittard Chocolate Cookbook, written by Amy Guittard.

Heat Sealed

Full Product Name:
Fair Trade Akoma Extra Semisweet Baking Chips

Storage:
Store in an airtight container.

Usage:
2 Servings

Importer:
Buckley & Beale Ltd,
Somerset House,
GL9 1HT.

Distributor:
Buckley & Beale Ltd,
Somerset House,
GL9 1HT.

Additional Information:
Fairtrade Certified™ Cocoa

Guittard Chocolate Company

Crafted for the pastry chef, artisan chocolatier and chocolate lover. Made in small batches from the highest-quality cocoa beans in a centuries-old French artisan tradition, Guittard Chocolate Company Collection Etienne baking chips deliver the same quality chocolate used by top professional pastry chefs to home bakers. The name Akoma represents heart in the traditional Adinkra symbols of West Africa, where cocoa beans for this chocolate are grown.

Origin: Proprietary blend comprised of beans sourced from West Africa.

Guittard Chocolate Company is a San Francisco Bay Area-based chocolate maker celebrated for crafting world-class couverture chocolate based on traditional French methods. Hand-selected beans, generations-old techniques and traditional recipes combined with close relationships with farmers, innovative craftsmanship and novel formulas. At Guittard, it's not just quality from bean to bar but from soil to palate. Dedication to creating rich and robust blends from the finest cacao has been our business for five generations since 1868. Which is why our gourmet baking chips are a favourite among professional and home bakers.

The Guittard Chocolate Company beginnings - In the 1850's, Etienne Guittard embarked on an arduous journey from France to America. It was during the California Gold Rush, and in just a few short years, while still in his twenties, this adventuresome Frenchman struck gold on the rough and tumble streets of early San Francisco. An experienced chocolate maker, Etienne had brought delicious French chocolate to trade for mining supplies, but soon discovered that wealthy miners were willing to pay premium prices for this elegant treat. Etienne sailed back to Tournus, France, where he worked in his uncle's chocolate factory until he could afford to buy his own chocolate making equipment. In 1868, he returned to San Francisco and opened Guittard Chocolate on Sansome Street.

Non GMO
Fair Trade Certified by fairtradeusa.org

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Buckley & Beale Ltd,
Somerset House,
GL9 1HT.
www.buckleyandbeale.com