It is time to give your taste buds a tingle with high cocoa, rick dark chocolate while celebrating the World Chocolate Day. Not only does this affair with chocolates keeps your spirits high, lifts up the mood giving fresh energy but is also associated with significant health benefits. World Chocolate Day observed on July 7 globally is a day to celebrate the wonders of the cocoa product which is simply irresistible.
Chocolate lovers do not need an occasion to celebrate. Be it Christmas or a birthday party, no festivity is complete without it. Various chocolate themed days are celebrated throughout the world on different dates like milk chocolate day on July 28 while USA celebrates international chocolate day on September13. Valentine week also includes a chocolate day. It is said that 7 July 2017 marks 467 years since chocolate was introduced to Europe.
Garima Chadha who is into chocolate making and chocolate decor for the past 11 years has trained many young women who have now started their own home business, making chocolates and chocolate cakes on demand. “Every year I celebrated chocolate day with my family members, but this year I celebrated with my friends Neeta Mittal and Anju by sharing with the children of the government school in Bhangedi village. I was making chocolates for 150 children for the past five days. It touched my heart when I learnt that many children tasted the chocolate for the first time,” said Neeta.
A city based chocolatier Narender Grover says, “Since 1994 I am into making chocolate delicacies in Haridwar. Having spent decades into chocolate industry, I still feel there is so much to be done with this dark beauty. In Germany, stuffing chocolate with Scotch, Rum, whiskey is in trend which in India, no chocolatier has tried yet perhaps due to less demand. liquid chocolate stuffing is gaining grounds though in different hand mould chocolates.”
Grover explained how his chef Mohammad Ashraf makes liquid chocolate in steam melt and design special cakes for customers on fathers’ day and mothers’ day. For the mothers’ day, a purse shaped chocolate cake and on fathers’ day chocolate neck tie attracts suits. Chef Ashraf says, “It is a tricky thing to melt the chocolate bar in water bath upto 150 degrees to 250 degrees Celsius. The chocolate is poured into moulds and then refrigerated.”