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Criollo Cocoa Beans
A premium variety of cocoa beans grown primarily in South and Central America. Considered the rarest and noblest cacao in the world. A cocoa fruit variety which comes from the Amazon having big size beans. The color is light, the shape is round, and the taste is sweet.
Forastero Cocoa Beans
The most common grown and used beans. They are most likely native to the Amazon basin. These beans make up about 80 percent of the world's production and are grown primarily in Africa, Ecuador, and Brazil. This variety grows very quickly and has high productivity and performance.
Trinitario Cocoa Beans
It is a cross between the Criollo and Forastero varieties. Trinitario has a great variety of characteristics but generally possesses good, aromatic flavor. Trinitario trees are particularly suitable for cultivation. A cocoa variety from Trinidad.
Dutch Processing
A method of treating the nib or the liquor with an alkali solution after roasting, which will reduce the acidity by increasing the normal pH factor from about 5.0 up to 8.0. The name honors the homeland of its inventor, C.J. Van Houten.
White Chocolate
Made only with cocoa butter, sugar, and milk. No cocoa is used.
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Spanish explorer, Hernando Cortez, found Aztec Indians using cacao beans to prepare a drink.
The drink was called "xocolatl" which means "warm liquid".
Knives tend to crunch and crack brownies when serving.
Use a pizza cutter to keep brownies looking their best.
In 1860, a Ghirardelli worker accidentally discovered a way to make fat-free cocoa powder.
Ground cacao beans were hanging in a cotton bag overnight. By morning, the floor was covered in cocoa butter that had dripped from the bag.