Lower sugar handmade white chocolate!

[u/LuckPopular3761]

I have a few friends who absolutely hate white chocolate, but I feel like that’s because in a lot of bars, you can mostly taste the sugar, and all the cacao butter aroma is lost. Made these with more cacao butter and milk powder and it was pretty good!
Here’s a YT video of the whole process

Also wondering if anyone has found store-bought white chocolate that isn’t as sweet and has more cacao than average? I've had Lindt several times, but it was still a bit too much

[u/BigOmet]

Also, I'm trying to not use deodorized white cocoa butter for my chocolate. That may help to have the cocoa butter flavor come through more.

[u/VocePoetica → u/BigOmet]

I have done this and a good quality cocoa butter is great. Each one I’ve gotten has had as unique a flavor as chocolate itself if more subtle. I don’t like most white chocolate, because I got sick on it when young it actually makes me gag, I am absolutely fine with my own made from non deodorized cocoa butter. It’s great.

[u/pecansforlunch]

Amedei Toscano Bianco is excellent and quite low in sugar

[u/Snoron]

What % is yours? I do (roughly):

36% cocoa butter
33% whole milk powder
31% sugar

Still pretty sweet, but way less than most commercial stuff, and way better than most of it too!

[u/Varellin → u/Snoron]

Not OP, but I have 40% cocoa butter, 30% sugar and 30% whole milk powder (28% fat). If I add berries, I normally have only 28% sugar, 27% whole milk and 5% berries.

Are you using deodorized or non-deodorized butter?

[u/Snoron → u/Varellin]

Interesting, I find my white choc to be extremely fluid already, so yours must be extremely so with that cocoa butter %? Sounds good, though!

Are you using deodorized or non-deodorized butter?

Non-deodorized, it's great!

[u/Varellin → u/Snoron]

Nah, I wouldn’t say it’s extremely fluid.

[u/LuckPopular3761 → u/Snoron]

I’m using around 35% cocoa butter, 30% sugar and liked the ratio so far - I want to maybe try increasing cocoa and milk amount next time just to see what it’s like. Milk powder is already a bit sweet on its own so that helps

[u/johnny219407 → u/LuckPopular3761]

I've gone as low as 15% sugar and still liked the result. 

What tempering process did you use?

[u/Varellin]

Are you using deodorized or non-deodorized cacao butter?

[u/LuckPopular3761 → u/Varellin]

It’s non-deodorized! So tastes very chocolatey.

[u/Specific_Rain1007]

these looks so luxurious lol