Raw Chocolate Making With Chocomama

Learn how to create delicious, healthy, vegan, raw chocolate in your own kitchen

What you'll learn
To make delicious, healthy, vegan, raw chocolate.
How to make raw chocolate from scratch.
The equipment and ingredients you'll need to make raw chocolate at home.
How to prepare for a chocolate making session.
How to make untempered raw chocolate - a basic recipe that you can use as your creative foundation.
How to temper chocolate, making sure it remains within the parameters of what is considered 'raw'. Tempering enables you to create stable chocolate and opens up the possibility of a raw chocolate business if that is your wish.
To make delicious inclusions for your chocolate to inspire you with flavour and texture.
How to make sweet treats using natural ways of sweetening.
What the common chocolate making problems are and how to avoid them.
The theory, philosophy and values behind raw chocolate.
What is meant by raw chocolate?
The nutritious food that is raw cacao and how to bring that nourishment into your sweet treats.
Why making handmade, homemade chocolate is significant.
What is the Raw Chocolate Culture? Why is it so amazing to be a part of it?
The significant differences between raw and conventionally made chocolate.
What is cacao or cocoa percentage and how do we calculate it?
The variety of ways that the chocolate we make can be sweetened, including help for those on a low or zero-sugar diet.
How to progress further on your raw chocolate journey.
Requirements
A love of chocolate!
No previous knowledge required.
Basic kitchen equipment, including a coffee grinder or similar. A dehydrator is useful but not essential if you have an oven.
Description
Do you love chocolate? Do you love healthy food that is full of vitality? Raw chocolate maker, Sue Frisby, invites you to discover how to make deeply satisfying chocolate. This wonderful food that gives us so much pleasure, has its source in the raw cacao bean. A sensual delight, chocolate is fascinating to work and create with. What could be more tempting?Sue has been making chocolate from unroasted cacao professionally for many years. In this course she will show you how to make handmade, homemade, real chocolate in your own kitchen, using simple equipment and high quality natural and organic ingredients. She will show you how to make chocolate from scratch, giving you a strong and solid foundation from which you can go on to create a myriad of variations.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Aims of the Course

Lecture 2 Course Requirements

Section 2: UNIT 1 The Practice

Lecture 3 Equipment

Lecture 4 Ingredients

Lecture 5 Preparing Your Chocolate-Making Space

Lecture 6 Preparing Your Ingredients

Lecture 7 Simple Raw Chocolate - How to make untempered raw chocolate

Lecture 8 Maple-Candied Orange Peel - And how to use it in chocolate

Lecture 9 From Untempered to Tempered Raw Chocolate

Lecture 10 Tempering - What is it?

Lecture 11 Tempered Raw Chocolate

Lecture 12 Coconut Crispies - And how to use them in chocolate

Lecture 13 Chocolate Trouble!

Lecture 14 From The Practice to The Theory and Philosophy

Section 3: UNIT 2 The Theory, Philosophy and Values Behind Raw Chocolate

Lecture 15 What Do I Mean By Raw Chocolate?

Lecture 16 Raw Chocolate Nutrition - Why Raw Chocolate is so good for us to eat

Lecture 17 The Beauty of Homemade and Handmade Chocolate

Lecture 18 The Raw Chocolate Culture

Lecture 19 Comparing Raw Chocolate and Conventional Chocolate

Lecture 20 Cacao / Cocoa Percentage - What does it mean?

Lecture 21 Other Sweeteners For Raw Chocolate

Lecture 22 Congratulations!

Section 4: UNIT 2 The Theory, Philosophy and Values Behind Raw Chocolate

Lecture 23 Where To Next? A Look Ahead At Level 2

Section 5: Raw Chocolate Making Companion Book

Lecture 24 Raw Chocolate Making Companion Book

Anybody wishing to create delicious, natural and healthy chocolate at home.,Vegans and those on a dairy-free diet.,Those who eat a raw food diet.,Those who want to create treats with unrefined and natural sweeteners.,Parents looking for healthy treats for their children.,Anybody who likes to experiment.,Those who want to learn how to temper chocolate at raw temperatures.,Those who want to make food with natural, organic ingredients