chocolate asphalt

Clay's next project was making "asphalt" out of chocolate.   He used aggregates of oats, coconut, nuts, and candies and mixed them with the binder of liquefied chocolate.  First, we got everything together:

 

 

 

 

Next, we melted  the chocolate:

 

 

 

Then we made the aggregates:

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Then, we added the chocolate "binder":

 

Then we placed the mixture on wax paper and added another layer of wax paper on top, so we could smooth it out:

 

Smoothing out the pavement:

 

 

The finished product:

 

All four samples, cooling, ready for taste testing. 

 

 

Very fun lesson, made yummy food and got to learn about how roads are made in the process.  I love how his school gets him to think outside the box.