plain chocolate

British  

noun

1. chocolate with a slightly bitter flavour and dark colour Compare milk chocolate

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Example Sentences

And a box of fridge-cake can be make an inexpensive bar plain chocolate and a hodge-podge of store cupboard ingredients into a fancy treat.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2023

"We were instructed we couldn't use milk in confectionery, but we were able to make some plain chocolate, like KitKats, which came in a blue packet," said Miss Hutchinson.

From BBC • Dec. 25, 2017

The new volume will follow the same pattern as the first, but will vary the recipes and include such new material as puff pastry, brioches, croissants and a plain chocolate cake.

From Time Magazine Archive

Now, in the wide-screen Gypsy, Candy Salesman Karl Maiden spiritedly says: "Crispy Butterfingers are better than those plain chocolate bars."

From Time Magazine Archive

A brief search brought to light a half-tin of biscuits and some plain chocolate, and off these, with the addition of a bottle of soda-water, also discovered, they proceeded to make an impromptu meal.

From The Lamp of Fate by Pedler, Margaret