Sal De GustoMar 4, 2025

I am 60, I am #Vegan, and I just learned how to make chocolate from scratch.

This has been kept from us. It is eye-blinkingly easy. The effort : reward ratio is beyond what you can imagine, because everything you can imagine starts and ends with chocolate.

Nestlé, Hershey, Mars you motherfuckers, now I know Kung Fu.

Edit: Adding the recipe I started with. Sorry I didn’t put it here in the first place, we learn. https://www.asaucykitchen.com/homemade-chocolate-with-cocoa-butter/#mv-create-recipe

Homemade Chocolate with Cocoa Butter

Learn how easy it is to make homemade chocolate with only 3 ingredients needed: cocoa butter, cocoa powder and a sweetener of your choice.

A Saucy Kitchen
Show threadchild of baphometMar 5, 2025

@goodthinking Now read up on the cocoa trade and how its prepared.

You cannot avoid all evil.

Show threadJanis

@shram86 @goodthinking then you do the best you can, gathering as much reliable information as is available to you, and communicating with your suppliers if even that is not up to snuff.

Shutting down helps no one. If we're going to try to make a better world, we need to do the work.

https://www.frontiercoop.com/products/frontier-co-op-cocoa-powder-non-alkalized-fairtrade-organic-1-lb?srsltid=AfmBOopujPXQIFwb9Eybna3oG1Lk-Iq7Eql-hE0s16YyfCB5Xk2JwVXe

Frontier Co-op Cocoa Powder (Non-Alkalized), Organic, Fairtrade Certified 1 lb.

Mar 5, 2025 at 6:21amWeb