How To Make Homemade Chocolate?

Besides being a very fun and enriching experience (especially for homes with little ones); Making homemade chocolate avoids ingredients harmful to health that can be added to ready-made chocolates.

Next, we share with you how to make a fantastic homemade chocolate. It is very simple and everyone can achieve an excellent result!

What to know about chocolate?

This food is very sweet, ideal for desserts and known all over the world. However, it is good to know that natural cocoa provides benefits for the body that industrial cocoa does not, or in lesser quantity:

The chocolate that we buy in stores can lead to health problems, such as diabetes or being overweight. This is due to the fact that manufacturers add a lot of sugar and, also, because the cocoa paste goes through several processes, where vanilla, colorants and additives are added.

On the other hand, this article published in the Willis-Knighton Health System Magazine also points out that:

 

The “bitter” type It is the purest, but that is not why you have to be fooled. All of them can have among their components something that is not good for health, so you have to look very carefully at nutrition labels. That being said, then what better way than to prepare the chocolate yourself for our family?

Ingredients to make homemade chocolate

You will need for this preparation:

• 500 g of raw cocoa beans.
• Half a cup of sugar (it can be whole).
• Additional seasoning, such as mint.
• Half a teaspoon of vanilla.
• 650 cm3 of milk (it can be vegetable).

You will also need the following kitchen utensils:

• Two saucepans.
• Mortar.
• Pepper mill.
• Container.
• Wooden spoon.
• Molds
• Baking paper.

How to make homemade chocolate? Steps

In five simple steps you can enjoy a delicious homemade chocolate:

1. First, put a layer of cocoa beans on parchment paper and toast for 30 minutes at 150 °. Let cool and remove the shell.
2. Break up the seeds with a hammer or mortar. When they are crushed, grind them further with a pepper mill.
3. Keep pounding until the seeds turn into a brown paste. If you taste it, it will be very bitter.
4. Heat a saucepan with water before it boils. Place the seeds in another saucepan and then inside the larger one to make a “bain-marie”. This step is preferable to be done by the adult in charge, so that children do not get burned. When the paste is hot, place in a bowl and continue grinding until a smooth consistency is achieved.
5. Finally, add the sugar little by little, as well as the milk and vanilla, to acquire a good texture. Mix all ingredients. Place in the molds and let it cool down to room temperature or in the refrigerator, with aluminum foil as a cover.

Final note

We hope you liked it and we encourage you to make this delicious recipe for children and not so children with joy… Enjoy it, family!