Chocolate class... Arequipa

So today we had a fantastic experience at a chocolate workshop, we booked last minute hoping to get a spot, and turned out we we're the only people to book for the morning class.... Which was great as we got a very personal learning experience of how 'Chaq Chao' make chocolates right from scratch using the best cacao beans, cacao butter, powdered milk and natural sugar (only the best natural ingredients) and we learnt about how big chocolate companies add soo many different ingredients, and use the cheapest products possible to cut costs! 😳 In doing so many of us think that Nestle, Lindt ect have the real chocolate taste but actually it's not, we have become addicted to the sugar and not the cacao itself (as there isn't much in there to begin with... Sad realising this!! As personally love Lindt chocolate.. But true 😑😕). In the class we actually got to hand pick cacao beans to roast, then deshell for the process of grinding the cacao beans to a chocolate paste that later gets used with the cacao butter, milk & sugar to make any chocolate you like e.g milk / dark. For white chocolate they only use cacao butter, milk & sugar 😋. (they don't waste anything, and use the caco bean shells for making chocolate tea... Pretty nice, and has better health benefits than green tea... Who knew!! 😉😏). In the last process we got to see the machines they use for mixing all the ingredients together to make the melted chocolate, before tempering at 43°c...then for making it into chocolates with toppings as we did 😁 yum!... Most important part is definitely eating them all 😂Read more