plain chocolate
The traditional British English term for what Americans call dark chocolate — chocolate made with cocoa solids and cocoa butter but without added milk.
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The traditional British English term for what Americans call dark chocolate — chocolate made with cocoa solids and cocoa butter but without added milk. 'Plain' here distinguishes it from milk chocolate rather than implying blandness; in fact, plain chocolate can be intensely rich and bittersweet. Still widely used in UK recipe books and packaging, though 'dark chocolate' has been gaining ground as the international term.
The recipe called for 200g of plain chocolate with at least 70% cocoa solids, so she grabbed the darkest bar she could find.
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(UK) dark chocolate.
“Fruit was the one with raisins. Golf was actually just plain chocolate.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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