How is chocolate made?

Ingredients:

• Cocoa beans
• Sugar
• Milk
• Lecithin
• Nibs

Step 1

1. It all starts with cocoa beans. Cocoa beans grow in places that are warm and are near to the equator. Nearly 70% of Cocoa Trees grow in West Africa.

Step 2

 Next, they gather all the Cocoa Beans and leave it under the sun to dry up which helps with the flavour of the chocolate.

Step 4

Once the cocoa beans have arrived into their destination, they are blended, cleaned, dried and when their shells have come off, the nibs will be the only thing left. The nibs are the raw ingredient of the chocolate.

Step 5

The nibs are then grounded into a liquid mass. Then the liquid mass is then processed so that it can make cocoa powder and cocoa butter.

Step 6

Milk, sugar and lecithin is added to the liquid mass and it is then put through many rollers so that it can be a particular size.

Step 7

After that, the chocolate goes through the final procedure. This procedure is called ‘conching’. The ingredients are finally placed/ blended in a big tank for the development of the flavour.

Step 8

When the chocolate has finished blending, it is time to temper the chocolate. The chocolate is placed in a machinery in which it is mixed together.

Step 9

After all the tempering, they finally mould the chocolate into different shapes or even blocks of chocolate. Then it is ready to be shipped to different nations.