All about Chocolate

Discover all about chocolate!

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Time for something sweet!

Let's make the perfect chocolate mousse together and it only takes 25 minutes. Here below you'll find the ingredientslist and the full recipe. Enjoy!

-125g good dark/bitter chocolate in pieces -25g unsalted butter at room temperature -4 eggs, yolks and whites separated -30g sugar

Melt the chocolate on a low heat.

Add the butter and let it melt slowly stir as little as possible.

Next, in a salad bowl, beat the egg yolks with the sugar until the mixture is white.

Carefully add the chocolate mixture.

In a clean, grease-free bowl, beat the egg whites to firm peaks.

Then gently stir/spatula the egg whites into the chocolate mixture.

Carefully spoon the mixture into 4 cute cups, bowls or glasses.

Then place them in the fridge for about 4 hours

Mousse au chocolat (met recept)

Morgen 3 april is het chocolademousse dag. Chocolademousse is een puur Frans recept. Het wordt voor het eerst beschreven door Meneer Menon,

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A little bit of history

THE ORIGINS The cocoa bean originates from central America (today Mexico) and was used by the Olmecs and other peoples as a medicine. They also drank their chocolate during their rituals. Then the Mayas discovered the bean and called it the drink of the gods. They mixed it with all sorts of things like chili and water and so on. The Mayans called it Xocolatl meaning bitter-water. The last people to find cacao in South-America are the Aztecs. They used the beans as a currency and also believed it was a gift from their god Quetzalcoatl. Sometimes they would drink the chocolate to prepare for battle.

CHOCOLATE REACHES EUROPE A legend tells of a Spanish explorer named Cortès that found the beans and brought them back to Spain. The tale goes as follows, Cortès was in search of gold and other riches he could bring back to his homeland but instead an Aztec emperor offered him a cup of chocolate. Once he was back in Spain they decided to add sugar and honey to sweeten up the beverage. Quickly, chocolate became very popular among the rich, even the monks drank it for certain practices.

EVERYONE LOVES CHOCOLATE For a long time only Spain knew about the particular bean. It was only in 1615 when the French king Louis XIII married the daughter of the Spanish king that the rest of Europe came to discover chocolate. The king had offered a variety of samples to the royal French court. Ever since then the whole of Europe knew about it.

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Which is the best fruit that goes with chocolate?

Tell me which is your favourite fruit combination with chocolate! :)

Strawberry

Banana

Orange

Raspberry

Kiwi

Voting ended onApr 18, 2023

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And did you know this as well...?

We often say that chocolate makes us happy, why is that?

When we eat chocolate a certain hormone called tryptophan is released and it creates serotonin. This is a neurotransmitter that makes us feel good. So yeah, it is normal to feel happy after eating chocolate :)!

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Did you also know...?

The name 'chocolate' came from the Aztec name Xocoalt which was the name for the cacao-plant. The Greek name of the cacao tree was Theobroma cacao which meant food of the gods.

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Did you know...?

Chocolate is good for your teeth! I know crazy right, you'd think that chocolate wouldn't be good because of the sweetness of it. Eating pure cacao would prevent tooth decay. Imagine if one day they invented a cacao-toothpaste...would you buy it? :)

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Welcome!

Hello dear reader, if you are a chocolate-lover you are in the right place. I am going to tell you the secrets of chocolate and give you a couple of recipes too. Anyway, I'll leave you for now, don't forget to take a look at my blog and we'll see eachother again in the next posts!

Bye, CF