How to make chocolate.

How to make Chocolate

Did you know cocoa beans are mostly grown in West Africa? The beans are collected and put in the sun to dry them to get some flavour. When they get to their destination they get blended, cleaned, dried and then the beans get broken. The  shell is then broken and the only part left there is the nibs.The nibs are made into a liquid cocoa mass. Then the cocoa mass is turned into cocoa powder and cocoa butter. The dark chocolate is mixed with all of the ingredients, like cocoa powder, cocoa butter, milk and sugar. White chocolate is not made out of cocoa mass or cocoa powder. It is only made out of cocoa butter and is putted in a machine to be blended. Then they add sugar, milk and lecithin in a big vat. Then it is put and blended in a big tank.Then the chocolate is put into blocks, and moved to a factory. When it gets to the factory, it has to be heated through a process that is called tempering and then wrapped individually.  

 By: Maira