Chocolate formulator
Design your chocolate (dark, milk, white, vegan milk, or vegan white) scene by scene (type, sweetening, and parameters) and get the formula to the gram, which saves itself as a recipe.
What is it?
The Chocolate formulator calculates the formula of a chocolate from your choices: the chocolate type, the sweetening (sugar or a sweetener blend), the cocoa percentage, the fluidity factor, and the production weight. It returns the composition in grams and saves it as a recipe automatically.
While you adjust the controls, you see an approximate preview that uses no credits. You get the exact grams when you click Formulate my chocolate, which costs 2 credits.
How to get there
- Path:
https://app.areacacao.com/chocolate-formulator - How to get there: Sidebar → FORMULATION → Chocolate formulator.
- Availability: any signed-in user with credits available. It isn't restricted by plan.
What you see
A scene-by-scene flow: Type → Sweetening → Parameters → Result. Under the Chocolate formulator title, summary chips show what you've already chosen (type, sweetening, blend, and parameters); clicking one takes you back to that scene. The Back and Next buttons move you between scenes.
Scene 1 — Type
"Which chocolate do you want to create?": five cards (Dark chocolate, Milk chocolate, White chocolate, Vegan milk chocolate, and Vegan white chocolate) and the Quick formulation shortcut, which jumps straight to the parameters with the classic setup (dark 70% · fluidity 0.65 · with sugar · 1 kg). See Chocolate types.
Scene 2 — Sweetening
"How shall we sweeten your chocolate?": With sugar or With sweeteners. With sweeteners you choose among six blends balanced by sweetening power. See Sugar vs. sweeteners.
Scene 3 — Parameters
"Adjust the parameters": Cocoa percentage and Fluidity factor (sliders with numeric editing; in both white chocolates the fluidity is fixed at 0.61) and Total weight (1 kg, 2.5 kg, 5 kg, 10 kg, or Custom). On the right, the Approximate preview of the formula. Under the Formulate my chocolate button you'll see "Uses 2 credits · Balance: N". See Fluidity indicator.
Result
"Your formula is ready": the Formula breakdown (see Formula breakdown), the Recommended values with the grams and percentage of each ingredient, the charge ("−2 credits · remaining balance: N") and, with sweeteners, the sweetness achieved. The buttons are View recipe and Adjust parameters.
There's no "Save recipe" button and no "New recipe" modal: when you formulate, the recipe is already saved in My recipes with an automatic name. View recipe opens its sheet. See Save as recipe.
Next steps
Labeling advisories
The two notices that sit beside the preservative check without being part of it: polyols above 10% of the finished product, and colors with no E number.
Generate a chocolate
Design your chocolate scene by scene (type, sweetening, and parameters) and get the formula to the gram; the recipe saves itself.