My Chocolate Factory Tour
It Was Surprisingly Fun!
For mother’s day, I visited a chocolate factory/museum in Orlando. It was a fun tour lasting about 45 minutes. It was nothing like Charlie and the chocolate factory; however, I enjoyed the whole experience. At the end of the tour, I got to create my very own chocolate bar.
So the tour consisted of a history on cocoa beans & its transformation into what we know as the delicious chocolate bar. My intentions for writing this post is to share with you some fun facts that I already knew, and what I learned while on the chocolate tour.
Fun Facts
- Did you know that money use to grow on trees? The Aztecs believed that cocoa beans was a gift from the gods. At this time, they used the cocoa beans to make a hot or cold spicy chocolate beverage. They loved this beverage so much that they turned the cocoa beans into a form of currency so that they could buy and trade goods.
- Before 1847, chocolate was a delicacy consumed in its liquid form only by the elite and royalty.
- It takes about 400 cocoa beans to make one pound of chocolate.
- White chocolate is not really chocolate! It is only made from a blend of cocoa butter. In order for it to be considered chocolate it has to contain about 17%-20% cocoa liquid or cocoa particles.