Daniel Peter from Switzerland developed milk chocolate in 1875 and four years later the first milk chocolate bar was produced.
Cadbury first added milk to eating chocolate in 1897. They weren’t the first to do it but their ‘milk chocolate’ proved to be a big seller.
By 1900 Hershey’s milk chocolate candy bar had begun the industry that would make Americans think of chocolate as something to eat.
Milk chocolate is probably the most popular of the chocolate products. It is sold directly to the consumer in a variety of solid bars or chocolate coated candy bars or other coated candies.
It is combination of chocolate liquer, additional cocoa butter, sugar milk or cream and a little vanilla.
Chocolate milk bar
The word chocolate is derived from the Aztecs names for the tree, and for the drink they prepared from the beans. These words live on in Mexican today as ‘choclatl’ for the drink and ‘cacauatl’ for the tree. Chocolate was first cultivated as a crop, by ancient Mesoamerican peoples. They used cacao beans to create a frothy chocolate drink flavored with spices.
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