In this short recipe video, I show you how to make chocolate from cocoa beans. This, from cocoa pod to chocolate bar recipe, is so fun, and the process is fascinating. #chocolate #cacao #cocoabeans #h ...

Producing chocolate, one of the world's most beloved sweets, is a multistep process beginning with freshly harvested cocoa beans. People have been experimenting with chocolate-making for millennia, ...

LAGUNA NIGUEL – Tracey Downey-Racen likes to get to the bottom of things. She’s been working with chocolate for years, but wanted to learn more about the process was from the cacao tree to the ...

Every piece of chocolate—whether it’s a humble Hershey’s bar or an upmarket Scharffen Berger bar—starts out as a tiny cacao bean. Some chocolatiers, like Francois Kwaku-Dongo—who grew up on a ...

Just as we have seen an increase in the number of microbreweries making specialty beers, the market for chocolate has also developed, so there are more high-end chocolate manufacturers who are trying ...

Who doesn’t love chocolate? There’s plenty to like about! Maybe that’s why it’s estimated that the average American eats almost 12 pounds of chocolate each year. In some forms, chocolate can also be ...

Semi-sweet and dark chocolate are frequently considered pretty interchangeable but there are actually some important ...

LONDON/ACCRA — Major African cocoa plants in Ivory Coast and Ghana have stopped or cut processing because they cannot afford to buy beans, four trading sources said, meaning chocolate prices around ...

Tens of millions of chocolate bunnies get sold in the U.S. every Easter. Here are six articles about chocolate from The Conversation’s archive — great reading while you’re nibbling the ears off your ...

Chocolate prices will likely climb even higher as West African cocoa processing plants can no longer afford to buy the bean. According to Reuters, state-owned Transcao, one of Cote d’Ivoire’s largest ...

LONDON/ACCRA, March 13 (Reuters) - Major African cocoa plants in Ivory Coast and Ghana have stopped or cut processing because they cannot afford to buy beans, four trading sources said, meaning ...

Can you manipulate the taste of noble cocoas in different directions to create exciting new flavors for the world's chocolate fans? Some researchers and cocoa professionals asked that question and the ...