Organic cacao crops are very common near my home. Then some days ago I obtained some cacao fruitings seeds like those in pic and did some experiments on how to obtain chocolates at home.
My experiment was like this:
- Extracted the seeds from the fruit, and washed the pulp out with water. Before this step I decided to try the pulp of two or thre seeds, finding suprisingly that it is so sweet, it has a mangostin like taste.
- Next the seeds were dried using a oven at 60 degrees celsious during 12 hours, obtaining a brittle cunchy textured seeds.
- The skin of the seeds was removed to obtain a bunch of toasted seeds like in this pic:
This is just the product I want to offer through Homesteaders-co-op. - The seeds were ground to obtain a powder like this:
- Again, the cacao powder was grounded by three times with sugar, using 10 g of sugar to 100 g of cacao. After this step we obtained a moldable paste, like this:
And done... we obtained a very yummy homemade chocolate. Just by think about it, my mouth is watering.
Ohhh. was forgeting to say that is difficult to find a natural product with bigger antioxidant flavonoids content than chocolate.