Chocolate Fun
Quotes
Chocolate Vocabulary
Cocoa Bean
The seed of the cacao tree, which is only called a cocoa bean once it is removed from the pod in which it grows.
Chocolate Liquor
The liquid chocolate produced by grinding the cocoa nibs. It is the basic ingredient in all chocolate products. There is no alcohol in chocolate.
Cacao Tree (Theobroma Cacao)
The tropical tree that produces cocoa beans. Theobroma means "food of the gods".
Cocoa Pod
The leathery oval pod that contains cocoa beans.
CHOCOLATE NIBS
The "meat" of the cocoa bean remaining when the shell is removed in the chocolate production process.
FUN FACTS
If you lined up all the M&M’s made in one year…
they would encircle the earth 48 times!
You know what kind of brownies over-whipped eggs and sugar produce?
Hard bricks, instead of chewy brownies!
Make cupcakes look sophisticated…
Use chocolate frosting and sprinkle with edible gold leaf!
Chocolate is often associated with gold.
This may possibly be from Montezuma's ritual of drinking chocolate from a golden goblet.