Discover Steps Towards Making Mothers Day Chocolates

Making mothers day chocolates is an interesting thing to venture in. Instead of buying for your mum chocolate on that day, you may decide to make for her instead. This article highlights the process of making a chocolate. Before setting out to the process it is necessary to have the following things ready. That is sugar, cocoa butter, vanilla pod, cocoa beans, and nonfat milk powder.

The first stage is to roast cocoa beans. It is necessary to roast the beans for sterilizing purposes as well as to improve the flavor. The beans are hard they are therefore roasted also to make the cracking easy. Temperatures should be regulated while the roasting is being done.

The nibs are then grinded to form cocoa liquor. One may use the coffee grinder or the meat grinder to be able to effectively grind the nibs. During the grinding, all the other remaining husks are also removed

After the cracking, winnowing is then done. This is important because it helps in removing husk from the nibs. The nibs are stirred then blowed using a hair dryer wile stirring. This is the way winnowing is done. After winnowing, the next stage involves grinding the nibs using coffee grinder in order to form cocoa liquor. This also helps in removing any husk which might have remained during the winnowing stage.

The next step to do is to conch the chocolate. This helps will affect the characteristics of the chocolate. The taste will change the smell will also change as well as the texture. The other thing to do after conching is to refine the chocolate. This will help in reducing the size of the sugar crystals and cocoa solids. It is worth noting that conching can be done together with refining.

It is then conched in order to change its texture. Conching also affects its smell and the taste. Refining on the other hand ensures that any other solid particles like sugar crystals are properly grinded. Refining also ensures that the blending is proper. Both the conching and the refining may be done together but there is nothing wrong in doing both the processes separately.

The last stem is the most difficult one. It involves subjecting the mixture to a higher temperature which is capable of melting it. The melting helps in making it look shiny. This melting may be done severally until the whole mixture have melted well. When it is in its liquid form, it is then poured in to different molds. The molds are the ones which gives the chocolate its shape.

After the tempering stage, the other thing is molding. The chocolate is then molded in to different shapes depending on the likes of the person making the chocolate. You may pour them in to molds then wait for it to dry. The mods must be of the desired shape since it will assume the shape of the molds after drying. Above are the various stages involved in making mothers day chocolates.