History of Chocolate

Chocolate is one of the oldest candies on the market. We can trace its history back to 1492,
when King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella received there first shipment of cocoa beans from
their American colonies.

The great conquistador Cortez was one of the first Westerner’s to come in contact with
chocolate. The Emperor Montezuma use to drink 50 glasses of “chocolatl” a day. Chocolatl
was liquid chocolate. This drink however was very bitter and was not up to the Westerners
fine standards. Cortez and his party found that if cane sugar was added to chocolatl it was
much easier to stomach.

They were the first party to bring chocolatl back to Spain, altering it the whole trip back from
America by adding different spices to make the taste better. The drink was quickly an amazing
success and soon created the first extremely profitable cocoa trade that Spain was the sole
source. They kept the secret of chocolate for nearly 100 years before it got out into the open.

Now that the secret is out, the world is a better place, and chocolate still reigns supreme as
the best candy on the planet.