How Is Chocolate Made?

There are a lot of steps involved in making chocolate. Chocolate starts as cocoa _________ growing on the cocoa tree.

• seeds

• beans

• leaves

The first step in making chocolate is to carefully scoop out the sticky beans, cover them with _______________, and then put them inside shallow boxes so they can ferment.

• banana leaves

• cardboard box

• plastic wrapper

Once the beans fully transform to a _____________ color, they are spread out on mats and left in the sun to dry out.

• dark green

• dark brown

• light purple

Once they are nice and dry, the dried and __________ beans are packed into sacks and shipped off to chocolate factories around the world.

• roasted

• moist

• fermented

At the factory, the beans first get ________. After roasting, the bean is cracked open by a machine.

• roasted

• blended

• boiled

Then, the cocoa _____ are removed. Powerful fans blow away all the later shell pieces, leaving just the pure pieces of cocoa behind.

Those nibs are then ground into a deep, dark brown paste called ______________.

The hunk of cocoa mass from before is mixed with the cocoa _________ that was squeezed out.

Then plenty of ______ is added. The chocolate blend is then sent through rollers.

Finally, the concoction is heated and ________ over and over in a special process called tempering.