Chocolates in the making

Have you ever watched somebody making chocolates from scratch - as far as one can make chocolates from scratch? No? Then take a look at these pictures:




picture 1: Cleaning the mould


picture 2: Tempering, i.e. cooling down very carefully the bulk chocolate


picture 3: Making sure that the chocolate is within a temperature range of 1° C



picture 4: Smashing the tempered chocolate into the molds so that airbubbles disappear


picture 5: getting rid of chocolate so that there is space for the fillings



picture 6: scraping off the excess chocolate


picture 7: the chocolates are now ready to be filled



picture 8: putting the fillings into the chocolates


picture 9: dash the mould onto the board to shake out the chocolates which have been covered with a bottom layer





picture 10: Voila, here are the chocolates!!!

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