The Making of Chocolate

Making Chocolate:

Ingredients:

- Nibs

-Sugar

-Milk

-Lecithin

How is Chocolate made:

1.People find cocoa Beans which can be found in West Africa, near the equator.

2.Then they leave the cocoa beans in the sun for a while, which helps with the flavour.

3.Then they are shipped off to different regions to be made into chocolate.

4.The cocoa beans are then blended, cleaned, dried and the shells are crushed, only leaving the nibs, the main ingredient of of chocolate.

5.Next, the nibs are grounded into a liquid cocoa mass, then the mass is processed to make cocoa powder and cocoa butter.

6.Then the cocoa powder and the cocoa butter are added to a few other ingredients like Sugar, Milk and Lecithin.

7.After, all the ingredients are then blended together and put through a number of rollers.

8.Then, it is put through a process where it removes any unwanted elements and put into a specific size.

9.Then the mixture is put through a process called Conching, which is the final process. It is when the ingredients are carefully blended and watched in a large tank for the development of flavour.

10.And finally the chocolate is shaped or moulded into blocks, drops, buttons or bars, then it is ready to be shipped.

11.But before it is made, it goes through a process called tempering. This process is when the chocolate mixture is heated, cooled and mixed. This gives our chocolate the right texture and makes our chocolate shiny!