Monthly Archives: August 2008

Cooking With Chocolate — Tips and Hints

Melting Chocolate 1. Melt in a Double Boiler This is the best method for melting chocolate. Put the chocolate in the top of a double boiler; put water in the bottom pot and heat until the water is hot, but … Continue reading

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The Types of Chocolate

The Start of Chocolate–Chocolate Liquor Chocolate starts with the cacao (cocoa) bean. It grows on a tropical evergreen tree only 20 degrees north and south of the Equator, mostly in West Africa and Latin America. Cacao Nibs are the main … Continue reading

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Belgian Chocolate Gift Baskets: A Truly Wonderful Treat For Everybody

Belgian chocolates provide many options that can meet everybody’s needs when talking about chocolates. Belgian chocolates have become the food of the champions, the indulgences of wealthy people, the sole favorite of the average masses, and the lures of lovers. … Continue reading

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Cocoa Beans

Cocoa beans come from the heart of the Caribbean where the climate and genetic origin of cacao trees create conditions for producing some of the best quality cocoa beans in the world. The Dominican Republic is the leading source of … Continue reading

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Belgian Chocolate History

How It All Began It all started with Leopold II of Belgium in the class 1885 when he colonized Congo. It was a soil eighty-six multiplication big than his nation. Leopold II was the really original one to place genocide … Continue reading

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The Chocolate Fountain

Awesome, fascinating, entertaining, intriguing, wonderful, enjoyable, delicious, the coolest thing that I’ve ever seen…..these are just some of the words and comments we’ve heard describing the chocolate fountain. While most people relate it to wedding receptions, they are appropriate for … Continue reading

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Belgian Chocolate Truffles

A chocolate truffle is a collection of chocolate sweets. This mouth watering confection us usually made with a round ganache of chocolate core covered with a powdered cocoa or chocolate. It is actually named after the truffle fungus because of … Continue reading

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2006 Symposium on Cocoa

February 9-10, 2006 The National Academies 2101 Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington, DC Symposium Overview: On February 9-10, 2006, leading world scientists convened at The National Academies in Washington, DC to explore the latest scientific advances in cocoa research. Building on … Continue reading

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