The safest ice cream is the vanilla but for many, the preferred ice cream is the chocolate! Then you have the smell of chocolate or freshly baked chocolate cookies! You can now almost feel Elsa and Anna say to each other, “What’s that smell? oooh! Chocolate!!”
Many who actually love the chocolate and the chocolate flavoured stuff actually like only the sugar though! Then again the famous cookies made popular by the series Friends was in fact a sugar sweet accident!
The truth and more importantly (you may ask what is more important than truth; well it’s chocolate!) cocoa is bitter!
That’s because flavanol-rich cocoa has a bitter taste, so sweet manufacturers add lots of fats and sugars to create commercial delicious tasting chocolate!
Even the famed chocolate milk shake is simply sugar with chocolate flavour! You like the sweet! Of course cocoa does enhance the flavour and boosts the taste so it is not all in vain! Which is why you can add some to your coffee like me! Not to filter coffee though! That’s blasphemy!
Chocolate is defined by the Encyclopedia Britannica as a “food product made from cocoa beans”, which come from the cacao tree.
Cacao is actually Greek meaning “food of the gods.”
The Beans harvested from the cacao tree are processed into cocoa powder or cocoa butter which is then incorporated into a wide variety of foods and beverages. Cacao trees were first cultivated more than 3,000 years ago by the Maya, Toltec, and Aztec peoples, and used in ceremonial beverages, currency, and even as a treasured item to be buried along with dignitaries for the afterlife!
Now remember Phoebe’s french grandmother who made the best chocolate chip cookies and turned out to be Nestle Toll house!? That was funny! But how the cookie were invented is actually chocolatey and sweet!
Ruth Graves Wakefield (where have you heard that before!? Corn flour and baking powder perhaps!?) was the co-owner of the Toll House Inn.
One fine day she was preparing some chocolate cookies for her guests when she realized that she was out of baker’s chocolate!
Thinking on her feet, Wakefield decided to chop up a block of Nestle semi-sweet chocolate, assuming that it would melt and spread evenly throughout the batter!
Instead, what came out of the oven was the very first batch of chocolate chip cookies! It was called the Nestle Toll house cookies! Now of course you have dozens of varieties of these cookies but that was the first and probably the best!
Hopefully all that chocolate talk made you hungry!
If not listen to some songs by Sreekumaran Thampi and maybe it will stimulate your taste buds!
Have a chocolate sweet sleep!
Shubh ratri!
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