Make Your Own Chocolate Kit
Mix up your own delicious chocolates from scratch – and in the process, discover the science behind it! You'll get to experience how products of the cacao tree blend together to form delicious dark chocolate with a sweet flavor.
This kit includes organic cocoa butter, cocoa powder, starter crystals, powdered sugar, whole cocoa beans to taste, a stick-on thermometer, and paper candy liners. It comes with enough to make about eight ounces of chocolate. The instructions include a short history of harvesting cacao beans and making chocolate. The candy can be made on the stove or in the microwave. You provide help for younger kids. Ages 8 & up.
Ingredients: sugar, cocoa butter, cocoa powder, cocoa powder (alkalized), and dark chocolate (containing sugar, cocoa liqeur, cocoa liqeur (alkalized), cocoa butter, and milk fat). Makes about 8 ounces, or 6 servings.
The cocoa powder and cocoa butter in this kit are fair trade and the cocoa powder is also certified organic.
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Lowest Rating - Wednesday, January 13, 2010
Tasty educationReviewed By: Megan My girls (7 and 10) had a great time w/ this kit. I liked that everything (including the thermometer) was included; no outside resources needed.
- Monday, January 05, 2009
Fun for the FamilyReviewed By: Karolyn My family had so much fun with this kit. My 6 year old son wanted to know where chocolate came from and how it was made. It is interesting to see the different states th chocolate goes through to become candy. We will do this kit again when my little one gets older. Another plus is you get to eat the finished product.
- Monday, January 05, 2009
fun kit! The 'Make your own CHOCOLATE kit' was a big hit with my daughter and her Girl Guide Friends.
She gave 4 kits as Christmas gifts and had fun doing one with 2 friends during a sleepover.
Thanks for making Science FUN.
- Monday, January 05, 2009
Parental Guidance SuggestedReviewed By: Tricia Robertson My kids were so excited about this kit that they made the mistake of rushing ahead to open and use the ingredients without reading the directions or waiting for adult help. Consequently, their results were not as they'd hoped. Maybe that was a lesson in and of itself. I think they would really like to try it again...and this time do it the right way.
- Friday, January 02, 2009
Lots of fun!Reviewed By: Dana This was great fun (and it even snuck in some education)! My 11 year old brother told me that he wanted this for Christmas again next year. Just as an FYI about the ration of ingredients this provides, though: the chocolate this has you make comes out *really* sweet. If some of the powdered sugar accidentally didn't make it into the finished product, I doubt anyone would miss it.
For next year's Christmas gift I'm planning on trying to find another Food for Thought product. :)
Read More Reviews - Tuesday, November 20, 2007
Great Fun...Great Eats!
This is the second time I've used this product with my girls (and their friends). Even though we save this for after learning about chocolate and/or rainforests, the information included in the kit is interesting and thorough -- so there really is no need for prerequisites. I love the fact that a couple of roasted cacao beans are included so the kids can actually hold (and taste) what we've read and learned about. The chocolate making process (simplified for the home kitchen) is quite easy and the finished product is very delicious. What a great hands-on resource -- and not many children are able to say that they've had "chocolate school"! Besides rainforests, this would definitely fit with units on Mexico, Aztecs/Maya, Spanish explorers, Valentine's Day, or whenever you need to hear that you're the most wonderful teacher in the world! :)
Also...Home Science Tools had a great price, and I received the items very quickly -- even at a military base overseas!
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