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Object of the Week for July 7

International Chocolate Day! "Premium Chocolate" Chocolate Bar Mold

Chocolatiers in Europe began using molds to create candy bars around 1850. This mold was for a simple, rectangular bar, but molds could also be shaped like animals or objects to create beautifully detailed chocolate scenes.

How Hershey’s Chocolate Bars are Made

Links

  1. History of Cocoa
  2. Example of an animal-shaped mold
  3. Cacao Tree from NMNH
  4. Chocolate in space!
  5. Watch The Power of Chocolate from NMAI
  6. Drinking Chocolate: How this Indigenous Beverage Became a Widespread Obsession
  7. Recipe for Chocolate Mousse by Alice Waters from NMAH