ingrediant of the week chocolate

today the ingredient of the week is chocolate!!

here are some facts:

it takes 400 cocoa beans to make one pound of chocolate

Theobroma Cacao is the tree that produces cocoa beans, and it means “food of the gods.” Carolus Linnaeus, the father of plant taxonomy, named it

Chocolate comes from a fruit tree; it’s made from a seed.

Most cocoa farms are not owned by the companies that make chocolate.

Benjamin Franklin sold chocolate in his print shop in Philadelphia.

An Indonesian cocoa farming community built a giant statue of hands holding a cocoa pod.

It takes two to four days to make a single-serving chocolate bar.

ways to use chocolate:

chocolate cake

chocolate puddin

chocolate muffin

chocolate bar

chocolate and strawberry...