Sunday 9 September 2012

LEARNING 2 ( CHOCOLATE MAKING)

For this session, we learned about chocolate making. Before we going  how to make chocolate, we want to shared about the history of chocolate.
  • The tasty secret of the cacao (kah KOW) tree was discovered 2,000 years ago in the tropical rainforests of the Americas.(source:http://archive.fieldmuseum.org/chocolate/history.html).
  • One of the Aztec legends concerning the origin of cacao tree.
  • Call it " the foos of the Gods" believe by Aztec.
  • Chocolate is world's favourite flavor.
Composition of Chocolate.

  • chocolate is one of complex food.
  • Scientist have identified some 400 compounds in the cacao bean, twice as many as the closet other food.
  • Over half of a chocolate is fat.
  • 10% is protein and starch.
  • Chocolate passion may not be hardwired into the human brain, but men and women have enjoyed it one form or another for 1000 for years.
What we have done is:

1. Melt the chocolate with the chocolate have been chopped.



2. Make the chocolate box and moulded the chocolate.



3. To get the good texture of chocolate, we do the tempering.

How to tempering:
1. An instant - read thermometer.
2. One with a gauge that runs from 80F to 130F in increments of one or two degrees.

4. We also make the chocolate ganache and chocolate truffle.






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