How we Make Chocolate
Today we associate chocolate with bars and filled chocolates but as you have seen, these products only emerged relatively recently. Chocolate was a drink for most of its history, yet though we saw some changes in the 19th Century which turned this chocolate into the bars that we know and love today, the early stages of processing chocolate has remained relatively untouched for thousands of years. Essentially, cacao beans, still have to be carefully taken from the trees and processed by hand.
Below is the process of making chocolate. remember each step is crucial to the next in making the perfect tasting chocolate imaginable.
The Cacao Tree - A short tree that grows on..
Roasting and Shelling the Caca o Beans
Cacao Liquer, Butter and Presscake
for the next exciting steps, please follow our tour of Prestat's chocolate factory... More Info
