Milk chocolate is a form of solid chocolate containing cocoa, sugar and milk. It is the most consumed type of chocolate, and is used in a wide diversity of bars and other confectionery products. Altho
A Milka chocolate bar, 30% cocoa
Daniel Peter, Swiss chocolatier who combined chocolate and milk
1905 ad for Gala Peter stating "The world's first milk chocolate"
Since its beginning, milk chocolate has been associated with Alpine scenery.
Daniel Peter was a Swiss chocolatier and entrepreneur who founded Peter's Chocolate. A neighbour of Henri Nestlé in Vevey, he was one of the first chocolatiers to make milk chocolate and is credited f
Milk chocolate
…chocolate. The first use of the term "milk chocolate" was for a beverage brought to London from Jamaica in 1687, but it was not until the Swiss inventor Daniel Peter successfully combined cocoa and condensed milk in 1875 that the milk chocolate bar was invented. Switzerland developed as the centre of milk chocolate…