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How to make bean-to-bar chocolate

  • Prep Time: 7 hours
  • Cook Time: 3 days
  • Total Time: 79 hours
  • Yield: 1 kilo of chocolate 1x

Description

How to make chocolate from scratch. This recipe makes a dark chocolate of 70% cacao.

Ingredients

Scale
  • 1000 grams of cocoa beans (or 700 grams of nibs)
  • 300 grams of sugar

Instructions

  1. Roast cocoa beans to 130c for about 25-35 minutes
  2. Cool your beans for 6 hours
  3. Crack and winnow
  4. Place 700 grams of cocoa nibs in grinder and grind 24 hours. (pre heat grinder or add some hot air)
  5. Add 300 grams of sugar after 24 hours
  6. Grind for another 24 hours 
  7. Remove from machine, through a sieve

Equipment

Notes

Please read the entire post because the details matter. Let me know if you have any questions. 

The list of equipment is if you are going to really get into chocolate making. If you want to do this at home, once in a while, with your kids, all you need is the Premier chocolate refiner. Everything else you can substitute for something you already have at home. 

  • Category: chocolate
  • Method: stone grinder

Keywords: chocolate, cacao, nibs, stone melanger, stone grinder, how to make chocolate, chocolate from scratch

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