Chocolate Making Process

How Chocolate Is Made

Dark, Milk, White, Caramel and so many other flavours.

Chocolate comes in many different shapes, sizes and flavours,

but how is it made?

Making chocolate is a process. First you need to collect the cocoa beans,

which grow in pods on trees. It takes about 5 or 6 months until you

have a fully grown cocoa bean. Once you have collected your cocoa

beans you need to cover them and leave them to ferment for 5-7 days.

The next step is leaving them in the sun to dry for 6 days.

 After the cocoa beans have been collected, they get weighed and

checked for quality. They get packaged and taken to a cocoa factory

for processing.

The next step in the chocolate making process is cleaning, cooling and

breaking of the nibs of the beans. The nibs are then ground into a

very fine liquor. That cocoa liquor can be transformed into cocoa

butter and powder.

This is the final stage. The making of the chocolate. Add together the

cocoa liquor, sugar, milk and cocoa butter. That mixture needs to be

continuously kneaded in a processor. That process is called conching.

It is what gives smooth texture.

Other ingredients can be added before delivery. But before delivery they

have to shape and package the chocolate. Then they deliver the chocolate

to the shops and be sold, and that is the end of the chocolate making process.