• Chocolate consists of the basic ingredients cacao mass, cacao butter, sugar, and milk powder.
  • The ingredients are mixed in the chocolate production.
  • The rolling mills crush the chocolate mass. Thereby, the sugar crystals are broken. Result: a powdery mass.
  • The chocolate enters a conche on a conveyor. The name (from the Spanish “concha”= “seashell”) comes from the shape of the machine.
  • The ingredients are mixed in the conche over several hours, like in an oversized food processor. After that, the chocolate is done.
  • The chocolate is stored in big tanks at about 40 degrees Celsius until it gets pumped one floor up in order to be poured.
  • First, the chocolate is brought to the right pouring temperature, so that it doesn’t get stuck in the pathways.
  • A specified amount of chocolate gets poured into the form.
  • The second part of the form stays empty. Later, when form is closed, the figure is molded.
  • After a 25 minute ride through the rotary machine and a cooling tunnel, the Easter bunnies are almost finished.
  • The form opens automatically and the Easter bunny is already recognizable.
  • The hollow figures get picked up by suction cups and put on a conveyor belt.
  • Now, the Easter bunnies are inserted into a coiling machine by hand.
  • The foil surrounds the “undressed” chocolate bunny and is smoothed flat. The barcode is automatically put in the front, so that the supermarket checkouts know what how much the bunny costs.
  • Now, the conveyor belt brings the bunnies to the packaging station.
  • The bunnies are put onto trays by hand. This protects them during transportation. Now a lid is put on the top.
  • Done! The Dettinger bunnies can now be sent all around the world.
  • Rübezahl provides more than 50 countries with about 50 million chocolate bunnies. And the number keeps rising!