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| Roasted Cacao |
Ever wondered how chocolate is made? We did, and we actually had the chance to do it at the Saraswati farm! We didn't actually participate in the harvesting or the drying and fermenting part of the process, but the cacao beans came from the farm and we roasted there in a big pan.
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| peeling off the shells of the cacao beans with Melissa and Belen |
Then it was our job to peel the shells off the beans, which is harder than it seemed and left many people with cut and bloody fingertips. Once they were peeled we mistakenly started grinding them, even though we didn't need to.
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| Grinding the beans. . . Oops! |
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| Belen "juicing" the cacao |
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| Melissa and Anne doing something. . . |
Then we fired up the juicer machine, and added in some tasty manteca and watched the chocolate paste flow. We then started peeling again and went back to the grinder to make some peanut chunks. Again we got ahead of ourselves and started spreading out the chocolate for cooling without adding sugar (oops). Once that was fixed we spread out the chocolate with peanuts in little molds and let it cool.
Turns out it was totally delicious even though all that work turned out to make only a few chocolates!
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| Sooooo worth it! |
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