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

Greek Yogurt with Berries and Dark Chocolate Chips If a big bowl of ice cream is your kryptonite, Greek yogurt mixed with berries and dark chocolate chips is an excellent alternative. —Christina Manian, Health, 22 Oct. 2025

Hire an assistant to follow me around with a purse full of money and a suitcase full of dark chocolate bars, to be handed over as needed. —Marla Jo Fisher, Oc Register, 22 Oct. 2025

For a more intense, semisweet cookie, choose dark chocolate cocoa powder. —Robin Miller, AZCentral.com, 17 Oct. 2025

Her 2022 Cabernet Franc is garnet colored in the glass and has sultry aromas of crushed violet petal, bell pepper, pencil lead, ripe cherry, and dark chocolate. —Mike Desimone, Robb Report, 16 Oct. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1896, in the meaning defined above