Chocolate & Cocoa butter

The steps of making Chocolate

Step 1

• Cacao 
• They are grown on a tall shaded tree
• Mostly in the tropical regions of Africa
• Also in Central and South America
• The farmers cut them open to get the Cocoa beans

Step 2

• They dry the cocoa beans
• They then check and make sure they are fully dry
• Then package and ship them off to the U.S

Step 3

• After they ship the cocoa beans they take them to a factory
• A factory in Chicago or any other factory in the U.S
• In the factory they roast the beans

Step 4

• After the roasting it creates Cacao Nibs 
• Cacao Nibs are then milled
• Cacao Nibs are the crunchy type of chocolate

Step 5

• Chocolate liquor is then made
• Chocolate liquor is a pure cocoa mass in liquid form
• The mass is melted and it forms the liquor
• The liquor is then cooled and molded into small pieces 
• This part is called Unsweetened Baking Chocolate (bitter chocolate)

Step 6

• Cocoa butter
• Its goes through a process called Broma
• It is used to extract cocoa butter from the ground cocoa beans
• Cocoa butter is deodorized to remove strong or undesirable tastes

The steps of Cocoa butter

Step 1

• Cocoa butter is a pale yellow vegetable fat
• The vegetable fat is then extracted from the cocoa bean

Step 2

• It is used to make chocolate and other ointments
• Coca butter has a cocoa flavor and a special scent

Step 3

• Chocolate liquor is then used to separate
• It separates the cocoa butter from the cocoa solids
• Cocoa solids are basically cocoa powder

Step 4

• Cocoa butter uses a process called Broma
• Is a method used to remove cocoa butter from cocoa mass
• After that process is over it leaves cocoa solids behind
• It uses the hydraulic press
• Its a machine that generates a compressive force

Step 5

• Cocoa butter is used for other organizations
• Cocoa butter is classified as the deodorized object of a cocoa bean
• The smell is impressing to the people and it's a healthy resource 
• Cocoa butter can specialize in chocolate and in ointments like lotion 

Step 6

• Cocoa butter and Chocolate are mixed together 
• They are then packaged with a brand and are shipped all over the world!