Obviously, cocoa beans are a pretty important ingredient in chocolate but what else is required to produce your favourite sweet treat? Well, this isn’t actually a straightforward question to answer and it really depends on the variety and quality of chocolate. Chocolate now takes on so many different forms that’s it’s possible to include any [...]
The mighty Aztecs reined supreme over vast tracts of Mesoamerica and cocoa can take at least some of the praise for the later success of this great civilisation. In these days before bank accounts and dollar bills, cocoa was actually used as a form of currency. I don’t think I would have been a particularly [...]
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 part of the bean. The Nibs are cleaned and roasted. They contain more than 50% cocoa butter.
The [...]
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. Yearly, Belgium can produce about 172,000 tons of chocolates from 2,000 chocolate outlets all over [...]
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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 during the twentieth Century.
The chocolate manufacture foremost took away during the 1880’s, backed by getting keep [...]
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 any type of celebration. Please refer to our occasion/event page. As we like to say, [...]
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 their physical similarities.
A ganache is a French term which refers to the concoction of heavy [...]