How Do You Cut Baking Chocolate?

Last updated on December 21, 2019

It comes in hunks. Slabs. It smells up the whole bag you carry it in, and you want to keep sniffing it.

Baking chocolate is when quality really counts. But unless you bake two similar items, at the same time, using different chocolate brands – and I’m not a scientist – it’s a little hard to compare them.

Baking Chocolate Reviews

Let’s try, though. I bought a Pound Plus at Trader Joes – their brand product – a couple of years ago and it was okay, not great. Great price, but TJ is always great on price.

Then I was given a big bar of baking chocolate at the Scharffen Berger booth of the Western Foodservice Convention one year (unfortunately not this year – I don’t think they even had a booth this year :() and that was one of my favorite freebies! I hated to start cutting it up – I felt richer just having it in my cupboard! It made extraordinary icings and brownies – blew grocery store chocolate out of the water.

Amazon has some rave reviews for their cocoa: Scharffen Berger (Scharffenberger) Natural Cocoa Powder in a cute tin. I didn’t see baking chocolate there, but Whole Foods usually has it and I assume other gourmet stores do to. Didn’t see it at Williams-Sonoma.

Baking Chocolate Cartoon

The movie, Fatal Attraction, inspired this cartoon, btw. The movie is an old classic now, but passion is never out of style. 🙂

And honestly, in real life an ice pick is the only way I know how to cut up baking chocolate. Is there another way? Knives just make a gooey mess. I love cookies with chunks instead of chips, so suggestions welcome.

I rarely find chocolate chunk cookies in a store that taste right, (wrong) but I’m still looking.