Chocolate

   Chocolate is a raw or processed food produced from the seed of the cacao tree. The story of chocolate spans more than 2,000 years and now circles the globe. Here is my version of a delicious, delectable, soothing home made chocolate.

Ingredients

-Milk Powder – 200gms (11/2Cups)—Nestle Dairy Whitener
-Cocoa Powder - 3 tbsps
-Sugar – 1 Cup
-Water – 1/2 Cup
-Unsalted Butter – 1/2 cup

Recipe

1) Take a pan and grease it with butter and keep aside.
2) Mix the milk powder and cocoa powder and sift with a sieve.
3) Heat a pan, add sugar and water and keep stirring till the sugar is dissolved and bubbles appear.
4) Then reduce the flame and keep stirring till you get a one-thread consistency (Syrup when stretched between thumb and index fingers comes like one-thread) or get 110 C with the candy thermometer.
5) To this mix in butter. Stir till the butter melts.
6) Then add the milk powder and cocoa powder mixture.
7) Once all dry ingredients and wet ingredients mix they will look like a smooth chocolate batter. Further cook on low flame for 2 minutes stirring all the while.
8) Then transfer the prepared chocolate to the pan and spread evenly.
9) Allow to cool in room temperature. Then cut into desired shapes.

Tips

1) Sift for more then two times so that we get a fine powder.
2) Once you lower the flame after the bubbles appear keep the stove in low throughout.
3) I left the chocolate to set for more then eight hours.

4) Add few nuts or raisins to make your own fruit and nut chocolate.