German Chocolate Museum! (1)

In the middle of this month, I was lucky enough to visit Germany with my school for a week, hence the quiet Teen Baker July ;). We were staying in a village (Bad Munstereifel)about 90mins from Cologne (or Koln in German) and a similar distance from the German theme park Fantasialand! But, the aim of this post is to share the rather splendid joys of the Schokoladenmuseum we visited in Colgone.

Images © Raimond Spekking / CC-BY-SA-3.0 (via Wikimedia Commons)

As well as having sections of the museum devoted to showing visitors the history of chocolate, cocoa bean farming, the lives of cocoa farmers, cocoa distribution and chocolate advertising – the most interesting section was the chocolate production area which was held in the big glass rooms at the end of the huge museum (top picture). This part of the museum is partnered with Lindt chocolates, so the working machines and five foot chocolate fountain were all pouring out molten Lindt chocolate. The most famous Lindt is probably the melt-in-your-mouth truffles. Although the machines making the inner melty truffle weren’t on display for the public, the finishing stages were and were utterly mouth watering to watch and is what I want to share with you today…

Firstly, cold truffles are lined up ready to be covered in their final coating of milk chocolate…

Then they go under the mini chocolate waterfall and are covered in a whole new layer of deliciousness AKA Lindt chocolate…

Next, the truffles are rolled along this vibrating conveyor belt to “rough up” the layer…

The next conveyor belt dries and cools the truffles so that they are ready…

..to be rolled into boxes….

and lovingly wrapped, ready for the shops!

Hope you enjoyed the photos! Next up, the cafe photos and top chocolate facts !!