Bacteria and yeast and all the nasty little things that make food ... meaning that the chocolate's fats have separated from the cocoa butter inside the chocolate. Less-than-fresh nuts within ...

The International Chocolate Awards named the best dark chocolate bar in the world, Vigdis Rosenkilde’s 70% cacao Quellouno bar. This dark chocolate bar is made from Chuncho cacao beans, which have a ...

The cacao bean was domesticated in present-day Ecuador more than 5,000 years ago. Even then it was considered a gift from the ...

If you love rich desserts but need a gluten-free option, an Italian-style flourless cake is the perfect indulgence. These ...

Valentine's day and the whiff of chocolate and cocoa ... themselves out of poverty, middle classes expanded in places like China and the craving for the delicacy increased. And making matters ...

Unfortunately, a warming climate is also putting cacao trees, the raw material that goes into making chocolate ... to something that’s completely out of their hands. “We think, knock ...

A cacao tree planted in 1986 proudly stands ... “So, we spent seven years figuring out how to process and make chocolate similar to what [Scharffen Berger] was making. I was obsessed about ...

Turns out that if love is reputed to be eternal, a low price for cocoa, the essential ingredient in chocolate, is not.

Gabriela Glueck, Good Food's Julia Child reporting fellow, visited California Cultured to find out how lab-grown chocolate is ...