Cacao or better known as Chocolate, is love by all level ages of people from young till old.is a raw or processed food produced from the seed of the tropical Theobroma cacao tree. Cacao has been cultivated for at least three millennia in Mexico, Central and South America, with its earliest documented use around 1100 BC. The majority of the Mesoamerican people made chocolate beverages, including the Aztecs, who made it into a beverage known as xocoltl, a Nahuatl word meaning bitter water. The seeds of the cacao tree have an intense bitter taste, and must be fermented to develop the flavor.
After fermentation, the beans are dried, then cleaned, and then roasted, and the shell is removed to produce cacao nibs. The nibs are then ground to cocoa mass, pure chocolate in rough form. Because this cocoa mass usually is liquefied then molded with or without other ingredients, it is called chocolate liquor. The liquor also may be processed into two components: cocoa solids and cocoa butter. Unsweetened baking chocolate (bitter chocolate) contains primarily cocoa solids and cocoa butter in varying proportions. Much of the chocolate consumed today is in the form of sweet chocolate, combining cocoa solids, cocoa butter or other fat, and sugar. Milk chocolate is sweet chocolate that additionally contains milk powder or condensed milk. White chocolate contains cocoa butter, sugar, and milk but no cocoa solids.
There are many brands of chocolates out there on the shelves but the more famous one which available in KL would be Godiva. The best chocolates MUST come from Belgium which famous for its finest quality.
I am lucky enough to be invited to join a bunch of famous bloggers to attend a private function where we get to see what the famous Godiva brand chocolate is all about.
The company was founded in Belgium in 1926 byJoseph Draps, over the past 80 some years it has grown to become one of the larger premium chocolate brand in the world with annual sales over $500 million. We are fortunate enough to have one in our country located in Pavillion KL where you can purchase a lot of their products as well as have coffee, cakes, and other of their hand crafted desserts.
Bite size cheesecakes
Perfect to go with a cup of good coffee to start the day
Not to mention their awesome macarons which we all love so much and the current hype of the dessert frenzy in KL
I cant say no to this!
Yazeed the brand manager of Godiva Malaysia explains to us all about Godiva and info about chocolates.
We were shown how to make our own chocolate goodies by using the finest chocolates by Godiva
Melted chocolate
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