The Making of Chocolate

The Making of Chocolate

Ingredients:  

• Cocoa Beans
•   Milk
• Sugar
• Lecithin
• Nibs

 Method

1. First of all it starts from cocoa beans. Cocoa beans grow in warm and cool countries that is near the equator. About 70% of cocoa trees  grow in West Africa.
2. The leave the cocoa beans in the the sun to dry so that it brings more flavour to the chocolate.
3. After the beans are shipped to different countries in the world.
4. When they arrive at their destination they are cleaned, blended and when the shells of the cocoa beans come off the nibs are left behind. The nibs are the only raw ingredient of the chocolate.
5. The the nibs are grounded into a liquid mass. The the liquid mass is the processed and is made into cocoa powder or cocoa butter.
6. Milk, sugar and Lecithin are then added and then all the ingredients are blended together. They are also put to a series of rollers so it can be a specific size.
7. After that it is now placed to the final approach. This procedure is called “ Conching”. The chocolate is the placed in a big tank for the final development for the flavour.
8. After that, the mixture is made into blocks of chocolate. Then the chocolate ready to be sold in shops and supermarkets.

By: Joshua C.