Easy 4 ingredients Chocolate recipe || LVCooking

 Hello guys this is LV today I'll tell you how you can make the delicious Chocolate recipe using just a few ingredients.

Amazing history of Chocolate! 

Before the 16th century, chocolate only existed in Mesoamerica in a form quite different from what we know today. As far back as 1900 BCE. The people of that region had learned to prepare the beans of the native cacao tree. The earliest records tell us the beans were ground and mixed with cornmeal and chili peppers. To create a drink not a relaxing cup of hot cocoa, but a bitter, invigoration concoction frothing with foam. And if you thought we make a big deal about chocolate today, the Mesoamerican had us beat. They believed that cacao was a heavenly food gifted to humans by a feathered serpent known to the Maya as KUKULKAN. And to the Azecs as QUETZACOATL. Aztecs used cacao beans as currency and drank chocolate at royal feats, gave it to soldiers as a reward for success in battle, and used it in rituals.

The first transatlantic chocolate encounter occurred in 1519 when Hernán Cortés visited the court of Moctezuma at Tenochtitlan. As recorded by Cortés's lieutenant, the kind had 50 jugs of the drink brought out and poured into golden cups. When the colonists returned with shipments of the strange new bean, missionaries' salacious account of native customs gave it a reputation as an aphrodisiac. At first, its bitter taste made it suitable as a medicine for ailments, like upset stomachs, but sweetening it with honey, sugar, or vanilla quickly made chocolate a popular delicacy in the Spanish court. And soon, no aristocratic home was complete without dedicated chocolate ware.

The fashionable drink was difficult and time-consuming to produce on a large scale. That involved using plantation and imported slave labor in the Carib Bean and on islands off the coast of Africa. The world of chocolate would change forever in 1828 with the introduction of the cocoa press by Coenraad van Houten of Amsterdam. Van Houten's invention could separate the cocoa's natural fat, or cocoa butter. This left a powder that could be mixed into a drinkable solution or recombined with the cocoa butter to create the solid chocolate we know today. 

Not long after, a Swiss chocolatier named Daniel Peter added powdered milk to the mix, thus inventing milk chocolate. By the 20th century, chocolate was no longer an elite luxury but had become a treat for the public. Meeting the massive demand required more cultivation of cocoa, which can only grow near the equator. Now, instead of African slaves being shipped to South American cocoa plantations cocoa production itself would shift to West Africa with Cote d'Ivoire providing two-fifths of the world's cocoa as of 2015. Yet along with the growth of the industry,  there have been horrific abuses of human rights. Many of the plantations throughout West Africa, which supply Western companies use slave and child labor, with an estimation of more than 2 million children affected.  This is a complex problem that persists despite efforts from major chocolate companies to partner with African nations to reduce child and indentured labor practices.

Today, chocolate has established itself in the rituals of our modern culture. Due to its colonial association with native cultures, combined with the power of advertising, chocolate retains an aura of something sensual, decadent, and forbidden. Yet knowing more about its fascinating and often cruel history, as well as its production today, tells us where these associations originate and what they hide. So as you unwrap your next bar of chocolate, take a moment to consider that not everything about chocolate is sweet.

Step-by-step guide on how you can make chocolate easily at home :

In a bowl start by adding the following ingredients - 

dry ingredients - 

1. Powdered sugar (1 cup)

2. milk powder (1/2 cup)

3. cocoa powder (1/2 cup)

These should be in the ratio of 2:1:1

Now make a setup for double-boiler. 

1. In a bowl placed at the top add 2/3 cup of coconut oil for the given quantity.

2. Slowly add the dry ingredients step by step.

3. Make sure that there are no lumps.

4. Once it starts to thicken add turn off the heat and let it cool.

5. Add the chocolate in the molds and freeze it for 2-3 hours

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