Make Your Own Chocolate - Educational Activity Toy Kit

It's easy & fun to make your own chocolate from scratch!Mixing elements of chemistry with world culture and history, this delicious kit contains everything you'll need to make 8 ounces of dark chocolate. Can be made on the stove or with a microwave - adult supervision is recommended! Great for class room activities, scout troops, birthday parties, home school, or after school. Makes a great gift for kids (ages 8 & up)!Inside each make your own chocolate kit you'll find: Organic cocoa butter, cocoa powder, confectioner's sugar, starter crystals, a temperature indicator, paper candy liners, instructions, and the story of chocolate.All you have to do is melt the cocoa butter, add the cocoa powder and sugar. Stir, stir, stir until it cools to the right temperature; add the starter crystals so that the chocolate "tempers, " and enjoy delicious home-made chocolate from scratch! By the way, you also get some cacao beans - we thought you might like to taste a few.Each chocolate kit makes 8 oz. Of dark chocolate!Chocolate comes from cacao beans which were originally found only in Central and south America.Cacao was so special to the ancient aztecs that they told this legend: Their god, quetzalcoatl, brought the cacao tree from paradise to earth, traveling on a beam of the morning star. He gave the tree as an offering to the people, and they learned how to roast and grind its beans into a paste. They added spices and mixed it with water calling it "xocolatl" or "bitterwater". They believed that it brought wisdom and knowledge to those who drank it.Today, cacao is an important part of agriculture in the tropics all around the world. The legend of chocolate lives on!Ingredients: Sugar, cocoa butter, cocoa powder, cocoa powder (alkalized), and dark chocolate (containing sugar, cocoa liquor, cocoa liquor (alkalized), cocoa butter, milk fat).