Cocoa butter

Imagine sitting at the dinner table surrounded by great friends, delicious wine, and then the aroma of rich chocolate grabs your attention. The hostess emerges from the kitchen and you behold this magnificent cake and you can feel your mouth salivate with desire. The first bite thrills your taste buds, the cake is moist, rich, and gooey. You absolutely insist on getting the recipe. Well, my signature Rocky Road cake is indeed sinfully delicious, yet complexed to make and requires skill as well…

drop in food quality and quantity due to climate change. As temperatures rise in Africa, the very heat sensitive crop, cocoa, is put under massive threat. This could seriously affect not only the supply and furthermore the price of chocolate, but also the millions of farmers and workers who rely on the farming of cocoa to feed their families and look after their children. The cocoa report predicts that by 2050 there could be a…

first discovered of cocoa was as early as the 900 AD. The cacao grew on trees in the wild. The people to use chocolate were the “Olmec.” Now today it is called southeast Mexico. The time frame that they lived in was in the 1000’s BC. A thousand years later (250-900 AD) the Maya did use chocolate. But, the clearest history of chocolate begins with the Maya. The power of the Mayan was minimizing by the 1400 AD so the Aztecs started to take over. The Aztecs could not grow their own cocoa so they…

cultures to discover and domesticate cocoa pods in 1900 BCE. Chocolate was very prominent in their societies and it was present in their marital celebrations and, even funeral rituals. Cocoa beans were so valuable back in this era. It was a form of currency which was mainly used by the Aztecs for exchanging food, clothing, taxes, and even offerings to their gods. The Mayans and Aztecs both had gods they gave offerings, thanks, and stories on how the great cocoa pods were given to them. Mayans…

the food we eat has chemistry in it. Chocolate is a food used in many desserts and comes in many different forms and flavors. It is derived from the cocoa bean and many people have chocolate in some form daily. Chemistry is what gives people the flavors and texture of chocolate that they love. Different Amounts of chocolate liquor and cocoa butter are used in different chocolate products. The various flavors of chocolate are gotten by using different amounts of ingredients. This is similar…

consisted of flour, square pan, butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla…

experience. I put on my apron and headed towards the kitchen. My brother was standing there waiting for me. He had written down all the ingredients, and it was my job to gather them all. The list consisted of flour, square pan, butter, sugar, eggs, vanilla extract, cocoa, and salt. After around ten minutes of preparation and searching for the required items I am ready!…

less of saturated fat. Chocolate provides half of this amount in each 1.55-ounce serving. the same serving of dark chocolate contains 10.8 grams of saturated fat , but Harvard Medical school explains that the fats in dark chocolate come from the cocoa butter and do not raise cholesterol levels , unlike the fats in milk chocolate that are primarily milk-fats…

the last century, West African countries (Cote d'Ivoire/Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Cameroon, plus others.) have seen an increment of what is nowadays one of their major exports: Cacao, bean-like seeds used in the production of cocoa, cocoa butter, and chocolate (Oxford Dictionary, 2015). This helped them become the largest cacao producer in the world today, harvesting a significant percentage of world’s cacao (Abbott, 2013). Although this may seem highly beneficial for the…

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