CREATE YOUR OWN GOURMET CHOCOLATE

WHAT IS CHOCOLATE, AND WHERE DOES IT COME FROM?With this kit, you can make chocolate and white chocolate. Thechocolate, as we are most familiar with is made from cacao beans whichare primarily grown in Central America and Mexico. Chocloate as weknow it has only been available for about the last 100 years. Spanishexplorers who came to Mexico in the1500's first found the Aztecsdrinking a beverage called "xocolatl" (pronounced "ho-ko-la-tol,")made from cacao beans, water, and sometimes hot peppers. TheSpanish explorers brought the beverage back to Europe, but since itwas so bitter, they added sugar and often vanilla flavor. Chocolate wasa heavily guarded secret for about 100 years. The Spanish would notlet anyone in Europe know how or where the chocolate grew.Cacao beans are comprised of about 50% fat (cocoa butter) anduntil a Dutch chemist, Conrad Van Houten invented the chocolatepress, it did not taste that great. The Press enabled the cocoa butter to be separated from the cocoa powder. This is where our chocolatecandy and hot cocoa, as we know it developed.

Kit Contains:
Cocoa Butter, Cocoa Powder, Confectioner's Sugar, Starter Crystals, Paper Candy Liners, Recipes and Complete Instructions.