How Chocolate Is Made From Cacao

Everyone loves chocolate... But not everyone knows where it comes from. To hear the story of how cacao is harvested, transported, and transformed is to know the wonder of chocolate — its science, flavor, and art. Lake Champlain Chocolates is both a chocolatier (crafting finished chocolate into confections and bars) and a chocolate maker (sourcing raw cacao beans to roast, winnow, grind, and mould into single-origin bars). Of the chocolate in our finished products, 95% (and rising) is fair trade certified. And our Blue Bandana Chocolate Bars are made with directly sourced cacao from Madagascar and Guatemala. But whether it’s a blend of Latin American and African cacao, or a single-origin bar, the process for making chocolate is essentially the same. And it starts with the tree, pod, and bean . . .

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