Make homemade chocolate from scratch with expert tutorials. Learn to make chocolate from bean to bar, with detailed instructions and guides, including growing, fermenting and processing your own cacao at home. Plus easy techniques for making chocolate from cocoa and fixing common chocolate issues.
Making chocolate doesn’t have to be hard! In this guide, we explain how to make chocolate bars from cocoa powder easily, that actually resemble real chocolate. Mastering the making of your own chocolate at home is a special craft, that requires time, patience and some well-earned skills. But if you don’t have time or interest …
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Learn how to make white chocolate using professional techniques, with chocolatier Simon Knott. Using only 3 ingredients, it’s easier than milk or dark chocolate. In this comprehensive tutorial, Simon shares his full process for making professional-grade white chocolate at home, from scratch. He explains how to choose quality ingredients and the role they play, and …
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As a vegan chocolate-lover or chocolatier, the question arises, what chocolate is vegan? Here, we explain what types of chocolate are vegan friendly, and what to look for when buying and working with vegan chocolate. When making chocolate for vegans, it is important to be mindful of avoiding ingredients that are derived from animals. Milk …
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After fermenting your raw cocoa beans, the next step is roasting. In this article, professional chocolatier Simon Knott explains how to roast cacao beans at home, and the science behind cacao roasting. Cacao roasting is a huge step forward in the flavor development of your cocoa, in preparation for making chocolate. While it is possible …
Learn how to ferment cacao beans at home, fresh from the pod. In this tutorial, chocolatier Simon Knott explains how to ferment cocoa step-by-step and the science of cocoa fermentation. As an aspiring bean-to-bar chocolate maker, learning to ferment cacao beans is a valuable skill to have. While not an essential skill, especially if you …
Learn how to make chocolate from cacao nibs! Whether you’ve purchased some cacao nibs from the store or cracked your own from cacao beans, chocolatier Simon Knott explains how you can turn those bitter nibs into sweet delicious chocolate. As a chocolatier, working with chocolate most days, you will quickly learn the ins and outs …
In this article, Ayla Marika explains how chocolate is made and processed on an industrial scale. Using drawings, she shows the steps that cocoa travels to become chocolate, and an overview of factory-produced chocolate as a whole. As a bean-to-bar chocolate maker, the process I am about to outline is of little practical use since …
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In this advanced chocolate-making tutorial, Chef Prish explains the full process for how to make chocolate with cocoa beans, from scratch. This is no beginner journey, but one worth taking if you are serious about making your own chocolate. Get comfortable as Prish walks you through each step to make your own authentic bean to …
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Learn how to make cocoa powder at home from raw cacao beans. Ferment, dry, roast and grind cocoa beans to produce your own truly home made cocoa powder. Just as the exuberance of jazz music is derived from the restraint of classical music, so too is the art of cocoa powder making based on the …
