You can, but you also don’t have to make it from scratch. Various forms of real, non-ultraprocessed-and-candified chocolate are guaranteed sitting lonely and forgotten in grocery store baking aisles around the world at this very moment. There’s also the option of finding a reputable local chocolatier, if you have one. I’ve never lived anywhere where there aren’t at least several local options, if not countless, but maybe I’m just lucky that way. Even if not, there’s always online ordering.
I’ve seen recipes, which are basically just cocoa butter and cocoa powder, and they seem pretty simple, though I’ve never tried them.
Most chocolate “making” just starts with chocolate callets. Melt them, temper it, put it in moulds, and add filling. I’ve done this, and it’s not that difficult. Of course, the quality here depends on the quality of the callets, so if you start with Hershey’s (not sure if they even make callets), it’ll still taste like vomit.
Baking is relatively easy, but how do you make your own chocolate? I don’t think you can properly do that at home.
It can be done, but it’s not easy.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IaCZcdWk1DU&t=1965s&pp=ygUTbmlsZSBibHVlIGNob2NvbGF0ZQ%3D%3D
You can, but you also don’t have to make it from scratch. Various forms of real, non-ultraprocessed-and-candified chocolate are guaranteed sitting lonely and forgotten in grocery store baking aisles around the world at this very moment. There’s also the option of finding a reputable local chocolatier, if you have one. I’ve never lived anywhere where there aren’t at least several local options, if not countless, but maybe I’m just lucky that way. Even if not, there’s always online ordering.
I’m from Austria, so plenty of options for high quality chocolate here. But they have gotten quite pricey lately.
Either way, I should lose weight (:
I’ve seen recipes, which are basically just cocoa butter and cocoa powder, and they seem pretty simple, though I’ve never tried them.
Most chocolate “making” just starts with chocolate callets. Melt them, temper it, put it in moulds, and add filling. I’ve done this, and it’s not that difficult. Of course, the quality here depends on the quality of the callets, so if you start with Hershey’s (not sure if they even make callets), it’ll still taste like vomit.