UMD students are cooking up a Valentine’s treat.  Students are learning about chemical engineering concepts through chocolate making. The Chocolate Lab is dedicated to making delicious treats from scratch and selling them.

The money raised goes towards a fund to help students study abroad. Creating chocolate involves:

• Roasting the beans
• Grinding the beans
• Winnowing- separating cocoa nibs from shells
• Refining and conching
• Tempering
• Blending additives like spices, flavors, marshmallows, nuts, and seeds
• Molding

The chocolate lab is an ongoing curriculum-based project open to all students, however, it is mainly for freshmen and sophomores.

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