~~** How to make good & tasty chocolate at home **~~ ??!


Question:

~~** How to make good & tasty chocolate at home **~~ ??

~~** I love chocolates **~~ :-)

~~**Spread smiles**~~ :-)


Answers:
Chocolate can be made at home - sort of. The sweet, smooth chocolate we are used to is very difficult to make and generally takes large amounts of machinery. However, if you can find raw cocoa (cacao) beans - hint: they are available on line at www.stoneandgiacomotto.com - you can make a rough chocolate to taste.

First, you have to roast the beans (about 400 degrees for about 1/2 hour). Then you have to remove the husks which is a tedious process, but should be easy to do once the roasted beans have cooled.

Then using a mortar and pestle, break the cocoa beans into bits. Take the bits and grind them in a spice grinder (it makes a mess so be prepared to clean). Once they are finely gound they will begin to liquefy. Don't grind them too much or you will have problems cleaning your grinder.

At this point, it's up to you how long you want to grind by hand. The longer you grind, the smoother it will get. Using a mortar and pestle, grind the beans more by hand. Then heat the mixture in a pan for a few minutes. Then repeat the grinding process in the mortar.

At this point, the goop should be pretty smooth. Now you add spices - sugar (about 1/4 cup per pound of beans) and vanilla (real bean seeds do best, but extract is okay). Then add some cinnamon, tarragoon, chili powder or something other exotic spice that you might never think of in chocolate. You really can get a nice taste with some things you wouldn't think of.

Store the mess in a container and let it set (refrigeration helps). It will be a different experience, but it will bring you closer to the real thing than you get from Hershey's

Source(s):
http://www.recipelink.com/mf/0/71748...

It is very difficult to make chocolates at home, if you can understand how chocolates are made or made of then you can understand.

Yeh I love chocolates. Sure I would ~~**Spread smiles**~~ :-)

Ingredients:

? 1 Egg
? 1 Cup chopped walnuts
? 1 pkg Chocolate cake mix
? 1/4 Cup butter
? 1 Cup milk chocolate chips
? 1/3 Cup milk


Cooking Instructions:
? Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
? Grease a 9x13 inch-baking dish.
? In a medium bowl, mix the milk, butter, cake mix and egg; until it blends well.
? Batter will be thick. Stir in the chocolate chips and in the walnuts.
? Smear the batter onto the pan.
? Now, bake for half an hour in the oven. Chill, cut into squares.

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by the best dairy chocalate products like hersey and canbury.melt them and dip them in freash juicy strawberry .lay them out and freeze them untill the chocalate is frozen.eat it and it will be healthy for u body and sweet for u touge.

use condensed milk, with coco powder ,powdered sugar.venilla esscence and add a lot of cream and also add soaked cherries in sugar solution ( measurements based on ur very sweet palate), now pour them in the ice trays and freeze it , if u can add small ice-cream sticks, u can eat them as candy too. wow simply amazing.

check Rachael Rays website




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