Next time I'll just buy Hershey's!

So Braden and I hung out for a bit today with our friend Josh and he showed us how to make chocolate! It was fun to get to see how much work really goes into this! Who knew!

First you get the bean .... and you have to take as many of the shells out that you can
After you bake them for about 20 minutes, you pick through it one more time ...
some helpers ...

You have to carefully measure out how much you have because you'll need to know later when you start adding your other ingredients ...

This is the grinder that Josh got for his birthday ... I think it came from India!

Then Braden helped him add cocoa butter, milk powder, and powdered sugar

after about 9 hours of turning the grinder on and off every half hour, it is done in the grinder. There's some stuff I missed in between that and when it came out of the fridge, but this is what we did to the chunk that was already done! We melted it down and poured it into molds for his parents' Christmas party.

Then I licked this bowl!!!!!!!

I know Josh doesn't read my blog, but if you are ... I'm kidding about the title. I think the hobby is way cool, and it was awesome to be a part of it for a day!