The harvested beans are cleaned, dried and roasted. Further pressing of the liquor separates cocoa powder from the cocoa butter. Unsweetened chocolate is made from cocoa powder and some refined cocoa butter. It's usually reserved for baking because it has a very bitter taste. Dark chocolate is made from cocoa, cocoa butter, and sugar.
Milk chocolate is made from cocoa, cocoa butter, sugar, milk, and small amounts of vanilla.
White chocolate is made from cocoa butter, sugar, milk, and flavoring. Chocolate has been a part of our culture for more than 2000 years. Cortez brought some of the cocoa beans back to Spain, where the heated, sweetened chocolate drink was enjoyed only by the nobility. By 1894, Milton Hershey established the Hershey Chocolate Company. Today, chocolate continues to be an important part of our culture.