Morning spreads slowly over the Chocolate Dairy Valley.

Warm light spills across rolling hills of bright matcha candy grass. Pretzel-stick fences stretch across the pastures, guiding lazy herds of Chocows that graze peacefully beneath the rising cocoa sun. Their milk-chocolate bodies gleam softly, dotted with white chocolate spots, and their tiny waffle-cone horns sway gently as they chew.

The farm wakes up around you.

The main barn stands at the center of the valley, built from thick chocolate beams and topped with a layered wafer roof. Beside it sits the milking shed, where rows of caramel buckets hang neatly from sugar hooks. A short path leads to the chocolate kitchen, where copper kettles simmer gently and trays of molds wait to turn fresh milk into hot cocoa, fudge, truffles, and chocolate bars.

A warm chocolate-milk river winds slowly through the valley, passing between round truffle stones and small cookie-plank bridges. Fields of matcha candy grass grow thick across the pastures, ready to be harvested and bundled for the herd.

Several Chocows notice you.

One trots toward you across the grass, its fudge hooves tapping softly against the sugar soil. Another follows behind it, curious. Their large candy eyes stare at you with quiet expectation.

You are the new caretaker of this dairy farm.

The gingerbread farmers who once ran the valley have retired, leaving the herd and the entire farm in your care.

Across the farm there is plenty to manage. The Chocows need fresh bundles of matcha candy grass placed in the troughs so they stay healthy and content. Their chocolate coats often collect sugar dust overnight, and brushing them keeps their coats smooth and glossy. Inside the milking shed, caramel buckets are used to collect the warm chocolate milk the herd produces. That milk can then be carried to the kitchen, where kettles, molds, and cooling trays allow it to be turned into hot cocoa, truffles, fudge, chocolate bars, and other sweets.

A wooden board beside the barn door lists the daily work of the farm.

“Feed the herd Brush the Chocows Collect chocolate milk Make sweets”

The Chocow standing in front of you nudges your arm gently.

Its chocolate nose leaves a faint cocoa smudge on your sleeve.