Chocolate vs. Toffee — What's the Difference?
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Difference Between Chocolate and Toffee
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Definitions
Chocolate
Chocolate is a food product made from roasted and ground cacao pods, that is available as a liquid, solid or paste, on its own or as a flavoring agent in other foods. Cacao has been consumed in some form since at least the Olmec civilization (19th-11th century BCE), and the majority of Mesoamerican people - including the Maya and Aztecs - made chocolate beverages.The seeds of the cacao tree have an intense bitter taste and must be fermented to develop the flavor.
Toffee
Toffee is a confection made by caramelizing sugar or molasses (creating inverted sugar) along with butter, and occasionally flour. The mixture is heated until its temperature reaches the hard crack stage of 149 to 154 °C (300 to 310 °F).
Chocolate
Fermented, roasted, shelled, and ground cacao seeds, often combined with a sweetener or flavoring agent.
Toffee
A kind of firm or hard sweet which softens when sucked or chewed, made by boiling together sugar and butter, often with other ingredients or flavourings added
A pound of walnut toffee
Chocolate
A beverage made by mixing water or milk with chocolate.
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Toffee
Nonsense; rubbish
Please don't expect me to fall for this load of old toffee
Chocolate
A small, chocolate-covered candy with a hard or soft center.
Toffee
A hard, chewy candy made of brown sugar or molasses and butter.
Chocolate
A grayish to deep reddish brown to deep grayish brown.
Toffee
(uncountable) a type of confectionery made by boiling sugar (or treacle, etc) with butter or milk, then cooling the mixture so that it becomes hard
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Chocolate
Made or flavored with chocolate
Chocolate pudding.
Toffee
(countable) a small, individual piece of toffee
A box of toffees
Chocolate
Of a grayish to deep reddish brown to deep grayish brown.
Toffee
(Northern England) any kind of sweets; candy
Chocolate
A food made from ground roasted cocoa beans.
Chocolate is a very popular treat.
Toffee
(transitive) To coat in toffee.
Chocolate
A drink made by dissolving this food in boiling milk or water.
Toffee
Taffy.
Chocolate
(countable) A single, small piece of confectionery made from chocolate.
He bought her some chocolates as a gift. She ate one chocolate and threw the rest away.
Toffee
Caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets
Chocolate
(uncountable) A dark, reddish-brown colour/color, like that of chocolate (also called chocolate brown).
As he cooked it the whole thing turned a rich, deep chocolate.
Chocolate
A black person; (uncountable) blackness.
Chocolate
Made of or containing chocolate.
Chocolate
Having a dark reddish-brown colour/color.
Chocolate
(slang) Black relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.
Chocolate
To add chocolate to; to cover (food) in chocolate.
Chocolate
To treat blood agar by heating in order to lyse the red blood cells in the medium.
Chocolate
A paste or cake composed of the roasted seeds of the Theobroma Cacao ground and mixed with other ingredients, usually sugar, and cinnamon or vanilla.
Chocolate
The beverage made by dissolving a portion of the paste or cake in boiling water or milk.
Chocolate
A beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot
Chocolate
A food made from roasted ground cacao beans
Chocolate
A medium to dark brown color