NORTHAMPTON, Mass. - Ana Bandeira's chocolates come from a family recipe that goes back four generations of Brazilian farmers.

"Their farm was started by her grandparents," owner Dave Haughey said. "They planted the first cocoa on that farm and that was passed on to her parents, and then to her and then to her son and us."

Now, Haughey and his wife are carrying on the family tradition through their Northampton chocolate cafe.

They have been using beans from the same family farm in Brazil to make their chocolates.

"Inside the fruit, there's a white pulp, which is sweet," Haughey said. "You can actually make juice out of it. It's delicious but tastes absolutely nothing like chocolate. Then inside that pulp, you have, it's like a cob, almost like a corn, and it's all of these beans just kind of coming down a little on a string."

He continued, "They're all covered in this white pulp. You wouldn't recognize them. And then we break all those pods open, we actually ferment those so you have to let them sit for seven days, and you have to control the fermentation process."

Once the beans have been properly roasted and turned into cocoa nibs, the next step is getting the fat to melt inside the beans.

"You have to kind of control the temperature that you're grinding them at," Haughey said. "And also the amount of time in order to make sure you keep the good stuff and lose the bad stuff. Ideally, if you have good cocoa, there's not going to be a lot of bad stuff to lose."

The Chocolate Cafe runs three businesses with two of them being in Brazil.

On Friday, Haughey's mother-in-law, who currently runs the farm in Brazil, took the time to visit her son-in-law's Northampton cafe.

She, along with Haughey, said it's been a surreal experience being able to not only continue making homemade chocolate, but doing it as a family even from different parts of the world.

"I'm really excited to have this entire chain of connection starting from her great parents," said Haughey. "And now going through all of the process of all of the things that we make and now we get to present all that here to the U.S."

Haughey said he hopes to continue to grow the family business by having the option to purchase their chocolate online and eventually in other stores across the country.