cocoa butter
noun
variants:
or less commonly cacao butter
Definition of cocoa butter
: a pale vegetable fat with a low melting point obtained from cacao beans
Examples of cocoa butter in a Sentence
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Finally,, the truffle is spray painted with colors made with cocoa butter. — Adriana Ramirez, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "This Port Washington candy shop goes through more than 6,000 pounds of chocolate each year," 26 July 2019 The combinations frequently change, but one of her stellar creations is a small orb filled with milk chocolate ganache infused with Guinness and enrobed in dark chocolate, its exterior an inky colored cocoa butter. — Ann Trieger Kurland, BostonGlobe.com, "It’s time to enjoy Tick Tock Chocolates," 1 July 2019 The new product announcement comes a week after Beyond Meat introduced a new patty that uses coconut oil and cocoa butter to create a marbling effect to make the texture mimic real meat more closely. — Jordan Valinsky, CNN, "Beyond Meat will start making 'ground beef'," 17 June 2019 For Atoma, designer Alexandra Genis created 3D models of spices’ molecular compounds using cocoa butter. — Diana Budds, Curbed, "The most bizarre and brilliant projects from a Dutch design fair," 5 Nov. 2018 The liquid that comes out of this process becomes the cocoa butter used to make your favorite chocolate bar; any residue is turned into cocoa powder. — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, "Chocolate has an even earlier origin than we thought, new study finds," 29 Oct. 2018 In 1898, Benedict Johnson and his B.J. Johnson & Company introduced bar soap made of palm and olive oils and cocoa butter. — Tyler Watamanuk, New York Times, "When Did Soap, Once Simple, Get So Complicated?," 11 July 2018 Some dishes are just lovely: those sweet peas, those crudites, a foie gras terrine served with summer truffle and strawberries, some in strawberry gastrique, others with a porcini-cocoa butter shell. — Devra First, BostonGlobe.com, "What’s on the menu at Falmouth’s Buffalo Jump? ‘Weird food that only weirdos like’," 11 July 2018 This Allure Best of Beauty award–winning, crazy-moisturizing lip oil mends dry, cracked lips thanks to four hydrating heavy hitters: coconut and olive oils, plus shea and cocoa butters. — Allure, "The 16 Best Lip Oils to Try Now," 28 Feb. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'cocoa butter.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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