Chocolate Creations: Spooky Treats for Halloween

Happy Halloween!

Think Halloween and the following activities come to mind: spooky decorations and images, carving jack-o'-lanterns, trick-or-treating, costume parties, apple bobbing, playing pranks, telling scary stories and watching horror films.

Spooky decorations and scary costumes. Normal homes become haunted houses on the day with homeowners decorating their porches or home entrances with plastic spiderwebs, paper skeletons, scarecrows, and eery jack-o'-lanterns. The more realistic, the better. In invitation for those brave enough to come knocking on the door.

Sweet History: Early 1800s … Chocolate Becomes An Industry

Chocolate could never remain as it was; it had to move on, shared en masse. That's what all good creations do, least of all, chocolate creations. And were chocolate creators innovatively inventive!

It must be remembered that in the 1800s there wasn't much utilities available, mostly manpower.

Chocolates were mostly handmade. But that didn't stop a man called Casparus van Houten who, in 1815, set up a small cocoa mill in his house in Amsterdam kept in motion by laborers running around in circles. Now, that's what I call: thinking outside the box.

Sweet History: Don't Leave Home Without Chocolate ... Ich Liebe Schokolade

If Johann or the Jostys couldn't, can you?

That is … leave home without chocolate? And that's what Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, considered Germany's Shakespeare, was said to have done when touring Switzerland in 1797. He loved chocolate so much that he insisted on having it at all times.