Chocolate Liquor

Also known as Paté De Cacao or Cocoa Mass.

The basic building block from which all chocolate and cocoa products, produced by grinding the cacao bean nib (or centre) to a thick, gritty, dark brown paste - a solid mass that contains no alcohol. Chocolate liquor is about half cocoa solids (which are what is left when the bean is pulverized and the impurities are removed) and half cocoa butter.