How to make a chocolate

admin April 14, 2012 Chocolate 0

You want to learn how to make a chocolate?

In the following lines I will explain what it takes to make your own chocolates and will supply you with your first chocolate recipe to get you started. Then I’ll introduce you to several methods that will help you distinguish between good or bad chocolate recipes. Lastly we will finish up by talking about how to recognize a healthy chocolate recipe.

Is it difficult to make a chocolate?

The answer to this question is that it depends on how you approach chocolate making, chocolate making is an art and requires time and practice. You will need to follow correct and very descriptive recipe to guide you step by step toward making your own perfect chocolate. Once you mastered several recipes you’ll be able to alter them and add your own flavor into them and that’s when things get exciting.

I took the following recipe from a book on this great website which helped me a lot: Healthy and incredibly tasty chocolate recipes.
One Bowl Chocolate Cake
This is a rich and moist chocolate cake that takes only few minutes to prepare the batter then frost with your favorite chocolate frosting.

 

Ingredients

  • 1 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 2 eggs
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
  • 3/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
  • 1 cup boiling water
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
  • 1 teaspoon salt
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1/2 cup vegetable oil
  • 2 cups white sugar

Directions

  • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour two nine inch round pans.
  • In a big bowl, stir together the sugar, flour, cocoa, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Add the eggs, milk, oil and vanilla, mix for 2 minutes on medium speed of mixer. Stir in the boiling water last. Batter will be thin. Pour evenly into the prepared pans.
  • Bake 30 to 35 minutes in the preheated oven, until the cake tests done with a toothpick. Cool in the pans for 10 minutes and then remove to a wire rack to cool completely.

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Finding a good chocolate recipes
There are many ways you could find chocolate recipes. The trick is to find the good recipes. These healthy and tasty recipes have been tested and they are a culmination of years of experience and repetition. You don’t want to work on a chocolate cake for several hours just to end up disappointed with a disgusting chocolate cake. A cake that will be served to you children or guests who will only eat it so you will not be disappointed.

My own experiences with free online recipes have usually left me feeling very disappointed. The people who write them usually put no effort in giving detailed directions on the process of making the recipe. Since you are not a paying customer they do not care much if you will or will not come back; whereas paid recipes sellers want their clients to be happy and satisfied so that they will come back for seconds.

Realizing you’ve found a good recipe
Look for recipes that have been on the market of long time. Recipes that many people like and have enjoyed in the past. I tend to search for books that are very informative and that the person who wrote them, invested a lot of heart and dedicated their valuable time and money to write, print and publish the book. This insures the recipes will be of highest quality.

I like the “Chocolate Recipe Guilt Free” in particular, because it shows me a way of making chocolate products in a very healthy and tasty way. The author wrote this book in a very descriptive way explaining everything you need to do clearly and step by step in order to prepare your recipe in the best possible way.
I really recommend this book and I have a very high opinion of its contents

I hope you enjoyed my report and hope it help you.

Best regards.

Chocolate Recipe

admin May 23, 2011 Chocolate 0

Chocolate has been a societal delight since before 1000 BC.  On the surface it sounds incredible, that they knew how to make chocolate so long ago. But on reflection you realize that if a society could build pyramids, they could probably handle chocolate.  In fact, the first discovered chocolate recipe was for use as a drink literally in 1100 BC.  It was very popular and it was enjoyed by royalty and in many royal courts in the ancient world.  Once it was allowed to be used outside of “court” the popularity spread like wildfire across borders and nations.  From this point forward chocolate had its stranglehold on the taste buds of the world.

 

Centuries ago, the cocoa beans, the main ingredient in the recipe for chocolate, were not just considered a delicacy but were also used as currency.  There was a time when you could buy a turkey for a around 90 to 110 cocoa beans.  Come to think of it, 100 M&M’s is probably a couple bags.  If you are buying them at a convenience store that would cost around four dollars.  Four dollars for a turkey?  You could still probably make that deal. Maybe it really is timeless.

 

Getting away from the trivia, the fact is that chocolate is a fantastic component of some of today’s favorite foods.  There are several types of chocolate, each of which have their own merits.  The first few types of chocolate are all considered sweet chocolates.  These are the chocolates that are eaten directly or in the production of foods.   The non sweet chocolates are normally used in baking or other strictly food production processes.

 

Sweetened chocolate comes in several varieties the most popular of which is mixed with milk and called milk chocolate.  Then there is white chocolate and dark chocolate.  Each of which has its following, but none compare to the ever popular milk chocolate.  The popularity of milk chocolate compared to other chocolates is simple to prove anecdotally.  Walk into any convenience sore and look at the candy bar section.  Ninety five percent of the chocolate used in candy bars is milk chocolate.

 

For unsweetened chocolates you will find chocolate liqueur, bittersweet chocolate and raw chocolate.  All of which are known to bakers and food producers but to few others.  This is the foundational chocolate that is used in most chocolate cakes and other baked goods like brownies and donuts.  These chocolates are not good to eat directly, they need to be processed into larger recipes.  Eating them straight is very bitter and surprisingly distasteful.

 

Chocolate is a versatile multi use delight that never ceases to please the senses.  Take that first bite into a delicious brownie or chocolate truffle and your body immediately reacts with positive feelings of well being and satisfaction.  The slight amount of caffeine in the chocolate also serves as a slight energy boost that also enhances the overall experience of “happiness”.  That is the wonder of this miraculous natural delight.  Satisfaction, well being, and happiness, all brought to you for centuries by chocolate.

Making Chocolate

admin May 23, 2011 Chocolate 0

It is rare to find someone so enthusiastic about cooking that they are ready to make their own chocolate.  After all, the process is strenuous, expensive and quite time consuming.  But if you are a purest and want to make a chocolate cake that you can truly call your own.  You have to start with the chocolate.

 

Of course, it is not reasonable to actually make your own chocolate.  But just for fun why not talk about what you need to do.  This will be an abridged version of a chocolate recipe.  The full version would be far too lengthy.

 

The first thing you need to do is roast some cocoa beans.  Roast them for between five minutes and a half hour at somewhere around 250 degrees.  Once the beans show signs of distress and breaking take them out of the oven and let them cool.  Once cool you need to break the casing off each bean. That is a lot of fun, this is sarcasm of course.  But you are a purest so no effort is too much.

 

Then you need to liquefy those beans.  Yes, liquefy them.  This is done with a commercial grade machine.  As is the next step, where the liquefied beans are mixed with various ingredients and processed further.  This is the main reason no one makes their own chocolate.  It is the fact that you need commercial grade equipment and a little bit, of a lot of ingredients.  And, as we all cooks know.  A little bit of this and a little bit of that adds up to a large price tag.

 

So now that we are beyond the dream of actually making our own chocolate from scratch, you can still  achieve a custom taste all our own by modifying the chocolate that you purchase.  There are no rules and there are endless combinations and ways to modify chocolate.  You imagination is the limit.  And now that you are saving money by buying the base chocolate, you can make unlimited experiments.

 

How about almond butter banana chocolate cakes?  Or a vanilla raspberry chocolate recipe?  Do you see the power of imagination?  It does not matter your particular desire nor does it matter your personal experience.  If you play with a recipe for chocolate you can create anything and call it your own “custom creation”.

 

This is the fun part about chocolate.  You do not need to stop at chocolate cakes and chocolate squares.  You can make chocolate pudding, pies, ice cream or even chocolate flavored bread.  The great part is, every item I mentioned already has a public recipe.  These recipes already produce a delicious outcome.  This way you can take a proven technique and simply use experimental modifications to make it your own personal creation.

 

Chocolate is a single universal delight that has incredible versatility and attraction.  It would be a rare occasion where chocolate would not be welcome and an unusual day when a little piece of chocolate does not bring a smile to most any face.