Praline vs. Chocolate — What's the Difference?

Praline (US: ; New Orleans, Cajun, and UK: ) is a form of confection containing at a minimum culinary nuts, usually almonds and hazelnuts, and sugar; cream is a common third ingredient. There are three main types: Belgian pralines, which consist of a chocolate shell with a softer, sometimes liquid, filling, traditionally made of different combinations of hazelnut, almonds, sugar, syrup, and often milk-based pastes.

Chocolate is a food product made from roasted and ground cacao pods, that is available as a liquid, solid or paste, on its own or as a flavoring agent in other foods. Cacao has been consumed in some form since at least the Olmec civilization (19th-11th century BCE), and the majority of Mesoamerican people - including the Maya and Aztecs - made chocolate beverages.The seeds of the cacao tree have an intense bitter taste and must be fermented to develop the flavor.

A confection made of nut kernels, especially almonds or pecans, stirred in boiling sugar syrup until crisp and brown.

Fermented, roasted, shelled, and ground cacao seeds, often combined with a sweetener or flavoring agent.

A hard candy made of sugar, butter, milk or cream, and pecans.

A beverage made by mixing water or milk with chocolate.

A confection made from almonds and other nuts, caramelized sugar, and sometimes milk or cream.

A small, chocolate-covered candy with a hard or soft center.

A confection made of nut kernels, usually of almonds, roasted in boiling sugar until brown and crisp.

A grayish to deep reddish brown to deep grayish brown.

Cookie-sized candy made of brown sugar and butter and pecans

Made or flavored with chocolate

Of a grayish to deep reddish brown to deep grayish brown.

A food made from ground roasted cocoa beans.

A drink made by dissolving this food in boiling milk or water.

(countable) A single, small piece of confectionery made from chocolate.

(uncountable) A dark, reddish-brown colour/color, like that of chocolate (also called chocolate brown).

A black person; (uncountable) blackness.

Made of or containing chocolate.

Having a dark reddish-brown colour/color.

(slang) Black relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.

To add chocolate to; to cover (food) in chocolate.

To treat blood agar by heating in order to lyse the red blood cells in the medium.

A paste or cake composed of the roasted seeds of the Theobroma Cacao ground and mixed with other ingredients, usually sugar, and cinnamon or vanilla.

The beverage made by dissolving a portion of the paste or cake in boiling water or milk.

A beverage made from cocoa powder and milk and sugar; usually drunk hot

A food made from roasted ground cacao beans

A medium to dark brown color