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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 25, 1976
Filed:
Apr. 14, 1975
Applicant:
Inventor:
Brian T Warkentin, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Assignee:
Shade Foods, Inc., Belmont, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A23G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
426631 ; 426306 ; 426659 ; 426660 ; 426662 ;
Abstract
A process is provided for the production of a solid chocolate composition which can be dispersed in vegetable oil to produce a chocolate liquid suitable for coating ice cream. The process comprises milling a mixture of cocoa powder with or without added chocolate liquor, sugar, hydrogenated vegetable oil, salt, lecithin and optionally whey powder or low fat milk powder to form a paste, roll refining the paste to form a sheet, breaking up the sheet and mixing it with hydrogenated vegetable oil, heating and agitating the resultant mixture and thereafter extruding and cooling small globs of the mixture to form the solid chocolate composition.