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since making my first batch of bean to bar chocolate I’ve been crafting outside the map lines: inspired by memories, the twang of a favorite song, the scent of snow sifting through fir trees, the way a river wraps itself around an oar.
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Our own micro-batch horchata-style drinking chocolate, crafted with single origin cacao sourced from our friend Alex at Revival Cacao in Tabasco, Mexico.
Horchata is a traditional beverage typically made with rice to lightly thicken, and spices to warm & sweeten it. I used heirloom mochiko rice flour to craft a plant-based “milk” chocolate, with cane sugar and panela sugar, then added habanjero, smoked paprika, canela cinnamon, honey, and a titch of salt to spice it up.
It’s not too sweet, and not too spicy.
Drink warm or cold: use 2 tablespoons per each 3 oz of liquid.
8oz pouch is re-sealable.
This cacao floored me with it’s intriguing flavor (rich but not intense, bright but not acidic, kinda fruity but also hints of nuttiness), with a gentle even tone beneath a harmonious blend of up and down notes.
This is the happy chameleon cacao of my chocolate-making dreams.
Kampura has also received the well-deserved hoopla of being an heirloom designee of the Heirloom Cacao Preservation Fund (designee #17) as well as named a Cacao of Excellence.
Grown on 800 hectares (2000 acres) with an agroforestry mission, Finca Kampura is also preserving Genuine Mahogany and Honduran Rosewood, two wood species in danger of becoming extinct. You can read more here
Lovely either warm or cold: use 2 tablespoons per each 3 oz of liquid, more or less of either to your taste.
8oz pouch is re-sealable.
A friend and student who works with farmers in Ghana for a big & famous chocolate company sent me a special micro-lot of organic Ghana cacao, and here it is in all its friendly, nothing bitter about it, 74% dark chocolate glory. If you’re timid around %s above 70, this might become your BFF forever.
Very limited quantities; when it’s gone it’s gone.
Drink warm or cold: use 2 tablespoons per each 3 oz of liquid.
8oz pouch is re-sealable.
