dark chocolate

noun

: chocolate that is dark in color and contains a high percentage cocoa and cocoa butter, usually no milk, and varying amounts of sugar

Imagine opening your mailbox and finding a three-pound bar of 70 percent pure dark chocolate.

—Elizabeth Eilender

The tart mousse was served in a dark chocolate cup, topped with meringue, and finished with a crisp wafer.

—Fran Bellamy

compare milk chocolate, white chocolate

Examples of dark chocolate in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Thin-shelled yet not overly delicate, stuffed with amarena cherry-scented light ricotta bookended by bitter dark chocolate chips. — The Bon Appétit Staff, Bon Appetit Magazine, 24 Aug. 2026

Forty percent of the global cocoa supply originates in Côte d’Ivoire, and each year the country produces 2 million tons of it, enough for roughly 28 billion dark chocolate bars. — Colette Davidson, Christian Science Monitor, 22 Aug. 2026

Think coffee and dark chocolate swirling with fruit and bold hop notes. — Hudson Lindenberger, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2026

The rich, fudgy brownie layer is made with Dutch-process cocoa powder for dark chocolate flavor, with extra chocolate chips folded in. — Erin Merhar, Southern Living, 17 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1896, in the meaning defined above