Homemade Chocolate

Homemade Chocolates

Have you tried making chocolate at home? Yes, I’m talking about homemade chocolate! Making chocolate at home is not a tedious process as many assume. There are many methods to make this chocolate recipe but the one which works great for me is the sugar syrup method. Preparing the sugar syrup to one string consistency is crucial to a successful batch of homemade chocolate.
Milk powder and cocoa powder are the other important ingredients that go into the making of homemade chocolate. One can add different flavors like chocolate essence, vanilla essence, cinnamon or espresso. I have not added any nuts or flavors. Crushed pistachios, pecans or almonds make for a good choice. Alternately, you can roll the finished chocolate in desiccated coconut or colored sprinkles. During festivals like Diwali and Christmas, homemade chocolates make for excellent edible gifts. Wrap the chocolates in pretty colored papers and gift them to family, friends or your Valentine.

Home made Chocolate

Next time you crave chocolate, stop rushing to your nearby store to pick up your favorite bar and instead make your own homemade chocolate.

Homemade Chocolate Recipe

Prep time: 5 min

Cook time: 5 min

Yield: 8

Main Ingredients: milk powder condensed milk

Ingredients

• Cocoa powder - 5 tbsps
• Milk powder - 1 1/4 cups
• Butter - 1/4 cup
• Sugar - 2/3 cup
• Water - 1/2 cup

Method

1. Sieve milk powder and cocoa powder and keep aside.
2. Heat water and sugar in a vessel and bring to a boil. Reduce flame and continue cooking till the syrup reaches one string consistency. Add the butter and mix well till it melts and blends with the syrup. Turn off heat.
3. Add the cocoa-milk powder mixture gradually (a few tbsps at a time) and mix well till glossy. Grease square pan or plate. Pour the mixture into the pan and smooth the top with a spatula allow to set for 10 to 15 mts at room temperature.
4. Place in fridge for 10-15 mts. Remove from fridge and use a cookie cutter to cut into desired shape.

Tips

• Wrap them in colored papers and gift to family and friends.
• You can add crushed nuts of your choice.
• You can add 1/2 tsp of vanilla essence at the time of adding butter. Alternately, 2 tsps of strong coffee mixture can be added.
• If using cinnamon, add 1/4 tsp to the cocoa-milk mixture and sieve.
• To check for one string consistency of sugar syrup - allow the sugar to dissolve in water. Continue to cook the syrup on low flame. It will begin to thicken. When you touch the syrup between your forefinger and thumb, a thin string will form and it should not break. If it breaks, the syrup should simmer for a little while longer.

Homemade Chocolate is an easy recipe and is a great kids snack. Learn how to make homemade chocolate and other fun chocolate recipes with cocoa powder.
 

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How to make money online

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Blogging
If you're a passionate closet writer who wants to be published but can't find a way to do so, make each keystroke your way to wealth by penning your own blog. Starting a blog doesn't require extensive technical skills but it's important that you have expertise in the field you are writing on. This will attract visitors to your site. Building a large following will enable you to earn profit by luring advertisers, writing paid reviews or getting commissions for promoting other people's products.

Paid Writing
If maintaining a blog is difficult for you but you still want to indulge your passion for writing, you can jot down articles for other blogs or sites such as Weblogs, Helium or PayPerPost. Writing an e-book can also be a good option. E-books are investment free, with no cost for printing and shipping. If you have a strong command over languages, you can become a copy editor, where Webmasters will pay you to read articles and correct grammatical errors, sentence fragments, etc.

e-tuitions/Webinars
The demand for tutors is high and growing. So, if you like helping others learn, e-teaching could be the earning ticket for you. All you need to become an online tutor is expertise in your subject and a few spare hours per week. TutorVista, e-tutor, SmartThinking and Tutor.com are some of the sites you can enroll with. If you gain a good reputation as a coach, you could even conduct Webinars-lectures or seminars transmitted over the Net. College and university students are willing to pay to gain entry to a well-respected Webinar.

Affilliate/Reseller
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Advertising
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Online Marketing
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Making themes
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Selling photos
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Support & service
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Stock/forex trading
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Virtual Assistant
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Inbound call centre
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You Tube
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Researching for others
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Building Applications
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How to Make an Android App by Mobile App Software

AppMakr Method

With more than 1.5 million new Android devices being activated every day, and almost a billion already in use, the chances are pretty good that at least some of your customers, fans or friends are using one. Creating a custom Android app for your small business, sports team, music band or community group can be a great way to keep in touch with those people and deepen your relationship by interacting with them where and when they are looking for information.  In the past you needed to spend money hiring a mobile agency to create you a mobile app, or you had to have a deep level of technical and programming skills to do it yourself. Today though, any small business operator, one-man-show entrepreneur, charity organisation or even a sports association; can create a mobile app for the Android platform without learning how to program. There are many easy-to-use tools that enable you to build an Android app in a short period of time. Here’s how you can start.

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Steps

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   Have a clear picture of your app in mind. Decide on what type of app will you be making. What is it for? Who is your target audience? These are just a couple of questions that you need to decide what mobile app you’ll be creating. Let this plan be a flexible one, just in case you need to change it later on while you’re making the app.
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   Search the internet for mobile app software. As mentioned earlier, there are tons of software on the internet that you can use to create your own Android app. Among those choices, we recommend these three free-to-download programs that can help you create apps for your Android phone.
   • Appcelerator Titanium –
     This user-friendly platform allows you to build cross-platform applications that will run on Android, iPhone and Windows devices by using the same Javascript coding that is normally used for web development. Because of that, Titanium is an easy way for web developers to transition to mobile. However, you do need some background knowledge on Java. If you don’t have those skills, but are a keen learner, check out some of the Java tutorials out there, such as: http://www.w3schools.com/js/
   • MIT App Inventor – Yes, you read that right: MIT as in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, one of the world’s top notch schools has their own free tool with a drag-and-drop interface, straight-forward instructions and step-by-step tutorials. The App Inventor was a gift to MIT from Google who developed it originally. The platform uses the Open Blocks interface for building logic, similar to the programming educational tool Scratch, also run by MIT. However, App Inventor involves a mid-level learning curve and is limited to producing apps only for the Android platform.
   • AppMakr’s The Machine – The Machine is a web-based tool and is the easiest to use amongst the three suggested options. It also uses a simple drag-and-drop interface, however the elements dragged here are the actual icons used in your app, rather than symbolic blocks. The Machine creates cross-platform mobile apps that run natively on Android, iPhones and in the mobile web browser of any other HTML5 enabled smartphone. Apps built are automatically uploaded for free to the AppMakr’s app store and the web, and can be published to commercial markets including iTunes and Google Play for a fee. This app is what we’ll use for the rest of the article, since it’s the easiest to use among the three.

AppMakr Method

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   Go to http://www.appmakr.com, enter a name for your app and click “Get Started”. Once you’re on the site, you’ll need to sign in with via one of your existing accounts on the web. You can either use your Gmail, Google account, Facebook, Twitter account, or your Yahoo ID to log in. You never need to tell AppMakr  your password, or register again with them, so you don’t have to worry about remembering another set of login details.
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   Fill in the details on the first page. Step one is where you’re asked to include basic information about your mobile app, which covers Contact Information, Name of the App, Overall Colors & Design (Colors of background, title and text), Background Image of the app interface, and Splash-screen image (this image will appear when the app is loading). You can upload your own design or image; or select from The Machine’s library of free images. Do note that the image uploaded should have recommended dimensions of 768 pixels wide X 1024 pixels high. Finally, you’ll provide information of App Demographics where you to select the region, country or state that your app is targeting.
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   Click the “Next” button and proceed with app creation. Step Two, is where the real app creation begins. In this step, you’ll find out that the app you’ll be creating for your Android phone is actually a collection of customised and pre-made functions. Here are a few examples of the functions you can include in your app:
   a. Calendar – A function that lets you share schedules and events with others.
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   Check the calendar on your phone and find the Settings or Preferences page.
   
   • Set the calendar settings to public.
   • Find the iCal link, which ends in “.ics”, and copy this link. In most phone calendars, it can be found near the bottom of the settings page.
   • Go back to the Machine and click the Events drop down menu.
   • Drag the Calendar icon to the phone interface area (the middle of the screen).
   • Paste the iCal link in the URL field on the lower right part of the page.
   • Save your work.
     b. Community – A function that resembles the Facebook Wall or Timeline feature. This is where users of the same app can post shout outs and leave messages for everyone involved using the Community feature.
     
   • Find the User Interactions drop-down menu at the left side.
   • Click and drag the Community icon into the center screen.
   • You can personalize this app with your own icon, page background, and even your own welcome message.
   • Save your work.
     c. Docs – Need to share forms, documents with the parents?
     #*Click on the “Custom Content” category on the left panel and select the “Docs” icon.
     
     
   • Drag the “Docs” icon and drop it anywhere into the centre panel of the interface.
   • At the bottom of the right panel, under Specs/Info; click on Add/Edit Files.
   • A pop-up window will appear, and this is where you can upload your document, along with title and description text. It take take files such as Word reader or PDF files.
   • You can also upload multiple file formats into the folder.
   • You can preview the mobile website as much as you want by clicking on the “Live Preview”. (Then click on the individual icon to preview the details).
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   Publish your App. Once you’re done with the app’s customization details, you can finally publish and download your app. This last step is where you will choose an icon for your app, which is displayed in the markets and on your users’ phones. You will need to create a detailed description text about your app and attach keyword tags to your app. By making your description text and tags relevant to your app, it will help to make your app more “discoverable” / easier to find in the app marketplaces. You have the options of publishing it on Android and HTML5 platforms for free or $1/month without ads on Appmakr’s mobile market. If you want to publish on all platforms (Android, iPhone and HTML5), in other external commercial markets; $9/month is a pretty reasonable fee. The $99/one time fee lets you sell your newly-created app for a price you set, but you will need to do all the publishing yourself.
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   Lastly, simply download the app from the URL or QR Code provided, and you’re done.