Heavy Cream Powder - 50 lb

This is a dried heavy cream powder.  Something you may not have ever seen before nor used in making chocolate.  There is no commercial product (yet?) that contains heavy cream powder, so by using this you are in uncharted and exciting territory.

First off some data.

71.5% fat by weight
12.5% lactose (sugar)
8.8% Protein
7.2% moisture and ash

Ingredients: Pasteurized sweet cream, skim milk solids, sodium caseinate, soy lecithin, bht.

It is certified Kosher. 

The first thing you should notice is how high the fat content is.  It is cream after all.  What that means is that you need to that number in your calculations if you are shooting for a certain fat content chocolate.  The other thing to note is that unlike using milk powder you can use this without the addition of extra cocoa butter. 

I recommend you keep it to 5% or less in your recipe or you may find the chocolate is very soft, even when tempered.

Pick whatever bean you like.  I found highly acidic beans react very well with the cream leading to some lovely caramel flavors.  Deep, solid flavored cocoa beans are good too and punch through the cream flavor well.

For those drinking this, 1 lb will make approximately 1 gallon of cream.   This also translates to about 1 oz or 3 T per 8 oz of water.

Finally, I was told the Canadian import tariff on powdered milk is 243%, if you are ordering from there, you may need to take that into account.  I am unsure as of this writing if that applies to Cream powder.