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How to Make Your Own Chocolate

Homemade chocolate recipes are here! But we must learn how to make chocolate from home first. Making your own chocolate from your home is not only fun, but also make chocolate taste just right for you. Don't be frustrated by the process. It's not too hard to make your own chocolate.

Basically, there are two ways to make chocolate. One method is a very long, drawn out process, and is only practiced by the best chocolate manufacturers. This is not the method that you will want to use – because you don’t have a chocolate factory.

You want the quick, easy, and much cheaper method, which requires raw cocoa beans. This is the same thing that those quality chocolate makers use. Raw cocoa beans will most likely not be found in your local grocery store; however, you can order them online. These cost roughly ten bucks for eight ounces – so making your own chocolate is not cheap – but it is delicious.

Homemade Chocolate Recipe and Instructions

Once you receive the raw cocoa beans, spread them out on a cookie sheet and roast them at 400 degrees for about half an hour. Allow the beans to cool. Once they are cooled, you will need to peel them.

Place a linen towel over a cutting board. Spread the beans out on the towel, and place another towel over it. Use a hammer to smash the beans up. Alternately, you could also place them in a zip lock freezer bag before hammering them. If you have a mortar and pestle, this is another method for breaking the beans up into small pieces.

Unfortunately, the hammer won’t get the pieces as small as you need them. You can grind the broken pieces with a pepper mill. Grind them until it becomes mushy. Unfortunately, it isn’t easy to grind mush, so you may need to grind them as much as possible, and then use a mortar and pestle until it is mushy.

Put the mushy substance in the top portion of a double boiler. Fill the bottom portion of the double boiler with water, and heat it on low, with the mushy cocoa beans in the pan on top. Add ½ cup of sugar for each pound of cocoa beans that you started with.

Keep stirring the chocolate/sugar mixture until it is smooth and creamy, and then pour the chocolate into molds and allow it to harden. It can quickly be hardened in the freezer – but do not allow it to freeze.

The chocolate can be stored in zip lock bags, in a cool, dark, dry place.

That's it! That wasn't so bad, right? Once you have your homemade chocolate ready, try some of our delicious homemade chocolate recipes by clicking on a link on the top.