Volume 8 Chapter 44: Chocte In Three Ways


    <span style="text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-weight:400">Volume 8 Chapter 44: Chocte In Three Ways


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Alright! It''s time to make chocte!" Keith twisted his hands in the air. Chocte; the best sweet ever. That was what he had obtained from Shakti; cocoa fruit. When he saw those, his excitement shot through the roof! This would be perfect!


    <span style="font-weight:400">Chocte would definitely open up a whole new vor for everyone! Sweets in this world were abysmal.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"I had these fermented and roasted for a week." The moment Keith brought these home, he had Diana grow them. Then, he fermented and roasted it.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Diana, are you ready?"


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Mmhmm. I''m ready!" To make chocte, he would need the great spirit''s assistance.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"The first thing we''re going to make is the cocoa butter." Raising the cocoa seeds up, "See the insides? We''re going to be using this." The seeds were required for this section.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Understood," Diana was a quick worker, and with a snap of a finger, all the seeds and shells separated from one another.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"What do we need to do next?"


    <span style="font-weight:400">"This is simple. I''m going to shred them first." Wind sphereing the cacaos, the seeds became more like a powder.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"The final step is to boil it; that''s the most tedious part." Shelling and grinding the pods was straightforward. Thest part was annoying.


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    <span style="font-weight:400">"Diana, you will see oil forming on the pot; please skim it into a bowl." Once that oil was solidified, cacao butter would be formed.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Understood." While the butter formed, Keith took out some milk. To make milk chocte, I will need to use milk powder. Making the powder was quite simple enough.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Milk was poured on a baking sheet and ced into the oven to bake.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Hmm, what kinds of choctes do I want? He was preparing milk and dark. Should he also do white chocte since he had the powder going? While lost in thought, he asked Diana, "Diana, how many sweets do you want this time?"


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Eh?" How many?! That was a bold question! How many did she want? While Diana was lost in thought,


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    <span style="font-weight:400">"Can''t we have everything?" Nephele muttered as she appeared before the guy,


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    <span style="font-weight:400">"Hmm?"


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    <span style="font-weight:400">"Can''t we?" On the other side was Udine, who got close to Keith.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"..." They''re touching. Keith could feel it, and he felt embarrassed.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"The two of you are too close to him," Diana frowned.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Can we, Keith?" But the two great spirits continued to nudge the guy.


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    <span style="font-weight:400">"Sure, but you have to help us with everything," Keith grinned. Nephele''s eyes brightened when she heard that. If she could help out, then they could make everything!


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    <span style="font-weight:400">"…I want to help as well," Udine muttered. She was quite curious as well. With her sisters helping out, she wanted to do the same as well.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"I have the perfect job for you!" Actually, the great spirit of water should do this!


    <span style="font-weight:400">"I have milk baking in the oven. I want you to take all of the water from the milk and make it into a powder form next." With her doing this, the milk will definitely be done.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Understood."


    <span style="font-weight:400">"What do I do, Keith?"


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Wait a bit; we need to wait for the butter to bepleted before you can shine."


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Aww."


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Don''t worry, your time wille. But for now, you can help me make the dough," Keith patted the spirit''s head. The great spirit of nature and water continued to work while he and the great spirit of wind worked on the dough.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Keith, is this enough?" Diana raised a cup of oil; even after skimming for so long, that was all she could obtain.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Mmhmm, this is more than enough." Keith turned to Nephele, "It''s your time to shine."


    <span style="font-weight:400">"What do you need me to do?"


    <span style="font-weight:400">"I want you to create three wind spheres in the air. Also, can you make smaller spheres inside" Having wind spheres inside would make the chocte smoother.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Oh, that''s simple enough," Nephele raised her hand, and the sphere formed. Good, now to toss it in. All the nibs were tossed into two.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Is the milk powder done?"


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Mmhmm, here." Udine moved it up.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Thank you. This one is going to be in thest one." Keith poured it into the third sphere.


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    <span style="font-weight:400">"Is that a lot?"


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    <span style="font-weight:400">"It will have three vors: dark, milk, and white." Cocoa butter was added, making the texture much more silky and robust. For milk chocte, milk powder was incorporated. Every one had sugar in different ratios. Slowly, the three mixtures were getting smooth.


    <span style="font-weight:400">Pouring them into the molds,


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Now, I just need to freeze it!" Keith''s hands started to be ice cold as he touched the chocte; slowly, the bars turned solid.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"And there you have it, you have three perfect chocte bars!" Keith grinned, "Please have a try." Keith snapped them into fourths.


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    <span style="font-weight:400">"Delicious," "This one is loaded with sugar!" "I love it." The choctes were a great hit with them.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Also, try it with the cookies." Keith then drizzled some chocte on the baked cookies.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"..." The great spirits said nothing as they nibbled like chipmunks.


    <span style="font-weight:400">"You should make it for others," Diana reminded. The others would definitely be


    <span style="font-weight:400">"Don''t worry, we''ll prepare a lot for the others." Their job was to get those farm animals outside when they had the time.


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    <span style="font-weight:400">"I can make some delicious things with this." Keith grinned deviously. And it''s almost that time as well.


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    <span style="font-weight:400">"…" What are you about to make? The others were quite curious about this.