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Chocolate Recipes features lots of amazing anddelectable chocolate recipes and dessert ideas you can easily makeyourself(plus a little game to entertain you)!

Chocolate is a typically sweet, usually brown, food preparation ofTheobroma cacao seeds, roasted and ground, often flavored, as withvanilla. It is made in the form of a liquid, paste, or in a block,or used as a flavoring ingredient in other foods. Cacao has beencultivated by many cultures for at least three millennia inMesoamerica. The earliest evidence of use traces to the Mokaya(Mexico and Guatemala), with evidence of chocolate beverages datingback to 1900 BC. In fact, the majority of Mesoamerican people madechocolate beverages, including the Maya and Aztecs, who made itinto a beverage known as xocolātl, a Nahuatl word meaning "bitterwater". The seeds of the cacao tree have an intense bitter tasteand must be fermented to develop the flavor.

After fermentation, the beans are dried, cleaned, and roasted. Theshell is removed to produce cacao nibs, which are then ground tococoa mass, pure chocolate in rough form. Because the cocoa mass isusually liquefied before being molded with or without otheringredients, it is called chocolate liquor. The liquor also may beprocessed into two components: cocoa solids and cocoa butter.Unsweetened baking chocolate (bitter chocolate) contains primarilycocoa solids and cocoa butter in varying proportions. Much of thechocolate consumed today is in the form of sweet chocolate, acombination of cocoa solids, cocoa butter or other fat, and sugar.Milk chocolate is sweet chocolate that additionally contains milkpowder or condensed milk. White chocolate contains cocoa butter,sugar, and milk, but no cocoa solids.

Cocoa solids are a source of flavonoids and alkaloids, such astheobromine, phenethylamine and caffeine.

Chocolate has become one of the most popular food types and flavorsin the world, and a vast number of foodstuffs involving chocolatehave been created. Gifts of chocolate molded into different shapeshave become traditional on certain holidays. Chocolate is also usedin cold and hot beverages such as chocolate milk and hotchocolate.

Although cocoa originated in the Americas, today Western Africaproduces almost two-thirds of the world's cocoa, with Ivory Coastgrowing almost half of it.

Our Chocolate Recipes app presents some beautiful &mouthwatering chocolate dessert ideas & recipes!!Enjoy!!!