Chocolate buttons
Small moulded discs sold for eating rather than for melting — and easily confused with the callets that look identical.
A product format — this describes how it is soldaccessible
What it is
Consumer chocolate buttons are simply chocolate moulded into small discs. They are an eating format, and their composition is whatever the manufacturer's standard chocolate is.
The confusion worth flagging is with professional callets, which look nearly identical and are couverture formulated for melting and tempering. A reader buying discs to temper with should check the cocoa butter content, not the shape.
- Category kind
- A product format — this describes how it is sold
- Legal status
- Industry convention, not a legal definition
- Also called
- chocolate drops, chocolate discs
What the percentage means here
Whatever it means for the composition inside.
Related
Commonly confused with
- Chocolate wafersThe distinction that matters: a wafer is a professional couverture format, a button is frequently a retail eating chocolate with too little cocoa butter to coat with.
Compared in
- Chocolate buttons vs calletsSet against Callets, which readers frequently believe is the same thing.
Sources
- ChocolateHQ editorial synthesis — ChocolateHQ(citation identity confirmed; passage not re-read)