Guys, I want to talk to you about chocolate, its benefits

I really like chocolate, I like its sweet - bitter aftertaste

Chocolate is the food of the Gods.

I like different kinds of chocolate, there are 3 types: White, Milky, Black.

Chocolate originated in South America. It was the Indians who created this kind of sweetness. The original kind of chocolate was liquid, it was drunk like hot chocolate. But only sweet people could allow this sweet drink.

And so let's go back to the types of chocolate:

• White. The composition of white chocolate does not include beans, so it is difficult to call it chocolate. It is made from: cocoa butter, vanillin, milk and other additives.

• Lactic. This kind of chocolate is made from milk or cream. The result is a delicate chocolate and a unique taste. This option is considered the most popular.

• Black. This view is the very first and most useful. This kind can be called the base of all chocolates. A quality product contains only cocoa beans, butter and powdered sugar.

Chocolate is a useful dessert

Chocolate affects the nervous system, which in turn helps to improve mood, cope with fatigue and depression. And many more poses for the human body voniyaniy gives chocolate, including for the heart. Eat chocolate and you'll be smart. The composition of dessert includes magnesium, which positively affects the work of the brain. Chocolate gives a person a big charge of energy, and also it tones up the body. 

Chocolate is healthy

Chocolate has been used for a long time in cosmetology. It is used as an antibacterial and anti-inflammatory agent, and it also rejuvenates the skin.

Where chocolate is used:

Peeling. As it cleans and improves skin tone. There are masks that refresh the skin, make it more taut, elastic and gentle.

Wrapping. Use chocolate for wraps, which help to cope with cellulite, stretch marks and sinews.

Massage. In some salons offer such a service as chocolate massage.

Hair Mask. Chocolate is also used in cosmetics for hair care. It nourishes the hair and saturates them with vitamins. The presence of caffeine improves growth and stimulates blood circulation in the scalp. 

Chocolate in Cooking

Almost all sweets are filled with chocolate: sweets, cakes, cakes and pastries, ice cream, mousse, jelly, cream, sauce. Also there are fans of a combination of sweet and salty. Therefore, many restaurants offer menus with fancy dishes, for example, meat with chocolate sauces. 

Prepare chocolate at home

In order to prepare real chocolate at home, you need to follow certain rules. So:

• The temperature is not more than 40 degrees.
• Instead of sugar, honey.
• Water bath for melting.
• Beans should be used fresh.
• Cocoa butter should be cold pressed
• The proportions of butter and cocoa should be 1: 1.
• Use the food, for example, your choice: vanilla and cinnamon, ginger, red pepper.
• Additives (optional): nuts, raisins, biscuits.

The recipe for making chocolate

100 g of chocolate, this tile kotraya sold in any store. Let's try to cook this tile:

50 g of cocoa beans; 

50 g of cocoa butter, (remember that I wrote in the rules cocoa beans and cocoa butter - 1: 1); 

2 tablespoons of non-liquid honey; 

1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon; 

1/2 teaspoon of natural chopped vanilla.

Melt the butter on a water bath.

Grind the beans.

Combine butter and ground beans, add honey and spices.

Mix, your task is to achieve a uniform consistency.

Shape, grease with cocoa butter and pour the prepared mixture.

Send the chocolate in the freezer for an hour.

For the New Year is ready!

No, not much

No, it will not stick together :-) 

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