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cocoa butter

or cacao butter

noun

  1. a fatty substance obtained from the seeds of the cacao, used in making soaps, cosmetics, and other products.


cocoa butter

noun

  1. a yellowish-white waxy solid that is obtained from cocoa beans and used for confectionery, soap, etc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of cocoa butter1

First recorded in 1895–1900
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Example Sentences

No success with this so far, but after turning to cocoa butter, there’s surely no shortage of imaginative solutions.

Curious about what occurs on a molecular level during tempering, Marangoni and colleagues focused on the ingredient that gives chocolate its texture — cocoa butter.

Removing these minor components from the cocoa butter and adding them back in one by one allowed the researchers to figure out each component’s role during tempering.

A little more than 50 percent of the paste is cocoa butter, which is extracted and saved to add to the chocolate later.

Chocolate contains a non-volatile fat (cocoa butter) in large amount, and should be classed as a food as well as a beverage.

One-half the weight of the cocoa-bean consists of a fat called "cocoa-butter," from its resemblance to ordinary butter.

This pressure removes a part of an oily substance known as "cocoa butter."

I suggested, scenting mischief as well as cocoa butter in the air, since the usually tactful Dee was on the war-path.

She and Dum hated the odor of cocoa butter, declaring it made their room smell like an apothecary's shop.

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