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

For me, this slightly bitter-sweet dark chocolate treat with a true salty peanut butter filling is like a leveled-up Reese’s. —Cameron Beall, Southern Living, 28 June 2025

Some of the most popular flavors include: salty caramel truffle, minty mint chip, cappuccino crunch, dark chocolate raspberry, pistachio, moose tracks, cookie doughlicious. —Pamela McLoughlin, Hartford Courant, 25 June 2025

And serious dark chocolate lovers can get as much as seven grams with 100% cocoa. —Audrey Bruno, SELF, 18 June 2025

The palate showcases layers of dark chocolate, molasses, nutmeg, and apricot. —Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 16 June 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1896, in the meaning defined above