White chocolates are made from cocoa butter. Cocoa butter comes from cocoa beans. Cocoa beans are harvested, fermented and dried before being transported to chocolate makers. The chocolate maker roasts the beans and then grinds them to a paste to make what is called cocoa liquor. To make white chocolate, the cocoa liquor is put into a very strong hydraulic press that presses the cocoa butter out of the cocoa liquor. This is the same way that olive oil is pressed out of olives. (Fun fact: the ‘leftovers’ from this process is called ‘cake’ and it is ground up into cocoa powder.) Once the cocoa butter is pressed, it is filtered and then milled with milk powder and sugar until it is a smooth consistency, and then it is officially white chocolate!