How to Replace Baker's Chocolate With Chocolate Chips

The original chocolate chip cookie was not made with chips, but a bar.

The original Baker's Chocolate Company opened in 1708. Today Baker's Chocolate is a brand of baking chocolates from Kraft Foods Corporation. Instead of chips, Baker's chocolate comes in 1 ounce squares. They are available in a variety of chocolate types, including, semi-sweet, unsweetened, bittersweet, German's sweet and white. It is possible to replace Baker's Chocolate with chocolate chips, providing you select the similar type chocolate. Since each chocolate brand has its own distinct flavor, there may be subtle flavor changes when making a substitution.

Things You'll Need

• Kitchen scale
• Small bowl

Instructions

1. Select chocolate chips made from the same type of chocolate as the Baker's Chocolate you are replacing. For example, use a semi-sweet chocolate chip to replace semi-sweet Baker's Chocolate.

2. Place a bowl on a kitchen scale and reset the scale to zero.

3. Pour chocolate chips into the bowl and weigh out 1 ounce of chocolate chips for each 1 ounce square of Baker's chocolate you are replacing. Use the chocolate chips in the same way as you would the chocolate square.

References

• Bakers: Products and Brands
• Food Project: History of Chocolate Chip Cookies
• "The Fannie Farmer Cookbook "; Marion Cunningham & Jeri Laber; 1979