Chocolate Experiment

The chocolate was finished well over a month ago, in fact almost two months ago.  It was fun to try.  I dried the cacao beans, roasted them, peeled them, and then crushed them.

The instructions on the web had you use machinery to crush the beans into a chocolate syrup.  We did not have anything that could come close to helping out.  So I rolled the beans under one of our glasses.  The taste was, not surprisingly, chocolately.  It was basically a baking chocolate.  I then mixed it with butter and sugar.  We ate it, it was pretty good and little crunchy though.  Now I would like to try for real, I just don't know if it will ever happen.