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Making Chocolates At Home Is Fun - Chocolate For Favors

by Margaret Chicken on Oct 25, 2011

Making chocolate at home from beans is not so easy. Millions of dollars are invested by the chocolate companies in the tools and machinery to turn bitter cacao beans into delicious sweet chocolate bars. With some efforts and hard work you can make chocolate at home in your very own kitchen.

Roast the cocoa beans

The process is same as roasting coffee beans, but with gentler requirements. Roast it for 5-35 minutes at temperatures between 120-160 degrees C. first expose the beans to an initial high temperature, lower the temperature gradually, and stop roasting when the beans start to crack but do not just burn it. And if you are wishing to roast it in large quantities then invest in a drum which is rotates over a gas grill.

Cracking and winnowing

After roasting the beans crack with a hammer and remove the husks by hand if you are working with a small batch. And for larger batch you can use a very coarse, Corona type mill to crack...Read More >>



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