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the differences between baking chocolates?

i'm trying to make some brownies from scratch and the recipes i find call for unsweetened chocolate. i really want to use ghirardelli's baking chocolate because i've heard great things. the only problem is the baking bars i find are bittersweet and i'm not sure if can use this. i found the baking chips as an alternative but that's 100% cocoa and i wonder if that might be too strong. i'm mostly looking to use the 60-70% my main question is can i use bittersweet in place of the unsweetened or should i just go for the unsweetened baking chips or bar. please serious questions only and any and all help is GREATLY appreciated. also i'm still unsure of the recipe i'm using and just wondering if anyone has the america's test kitchen classic brownies recipe thanks!

Public Comments

1. yes you can, and since youre using bittersweet instead of unsweetened, just miss out about two to three tablespoons of sugar. it should give you the same results and sweetness of using unsweetened bars. this is probably the easiest option. however, if you want to use the 100% cocoa baking chips in place of the bars, you need less chocalate than what the recipe says (replace 2/3 of the weight of the chocolate in the recipe with the 100%, and add 1/3 of original chocolate weight with oil or melted butter to make the flavour less intense. add more sugar if you want to. hope this helps!!