over the Easter period Irish people will tuck into millions of these but have you ever wondered how an Easter egg is made let's find [Music] out joy Natasha thanks a million for having us you're more than welcome thank you very much for coming and can you tell us a little bit about the factory sure the chocolate Warehouse is part of cafre we opened in 1948 my grandfather opened up CAF um it's now a third generation run family business and the chocolate Warehouse was opened 11 years ago and is Easter a particularly busy time of the
year it's our busiest time of the year it's Christmas New Year everything all rolled into [Music] one so where does chocolate come from it comes from a tree called the Cocoa Tree and the very first thing that starts are grow a cocoa tree is a beautiful pod called the cocoa pod now inside these pods are little brown beans called cocoa beans and then we heat these we crush them down and we make them into different types of chocolate for example milk dark and white chocolate there's a different process for each then we pour them into
different types of molds we have rabbit moles Easter egg molds handmade chocolate molds there's many different types of molds and this is how we make Easter eggs in different type of chocolate bunny so you you put the mold into the chocolate to fill it you put the lid back over then we put on something called a spinning machine where the mold spins around and this is where you make hollow or molder products and we're open till 5:00 on Saturday for the Easter Bunny and then from the 23rd of April right through the whole summer we
have chocolate workshops great for birthday pares or School tours you can just come up for 2 hours to make your own chocolates and it's great fun thanks very much for having us happy Easter thanks a
