It's been years I've been willing to offer you some cocoa bien but couldn't find a trusty provider.
It is now the case and I never tasted cocoa beans as nicely fermented as these ones.
You heard about cocoa ? You love chocolate, you're going to discover something !
What I'm offering you here, is not chocolate, it's the bean to produce it.
The cocoa beans have been roasted by me and provided to you in the form they get out of the roaster.
It is composed of the bean itself and the shell, to peel.. And you can use both !
The shell can be used as an infusion (it is indeed found in infusion's blends). The bean can be eaten raw, or you can crush it and put it in desserts, granolas,...
Beware of the quantity you eat, it's easy to eat lots of them but it's full of cocoa butter :)
With a powerful blender, you can create what I call cocoa sand which will blend even better in desserts.
And if you wish to go up to the chocolate and you have a dedicated mill, sugar (to add at the end) and 24 hours+ to spend doing it, plus extra time to mature and temper it, feel free to try !
An important thing to consider : Eating a cocoa bean is a bit like if you could extract a single bean of coffee, each bean taste is unique due to the impact of the fermentation process on it. You get a variation around a theme, that goes from fruitier to "cocoaty".
And last but not least, this is not chocolate, even compared to 100% cocoa chocolate (chocolate without sugar or any other product like milk). Aromas are rawer and quite surprising but if you like it, it gets addictive.
Parras Lempa farm is an example of sustainable farming. Not only the cocoa varietals are chosen according quality and productivity, the diversity of the farming allow a wide range of incomes and help biodiversity. Trees like coco and plantain bananas give shadow and cut winds to cocoa trees. Note that I wouldn't call this agroforestry (others would...), I'd say regulated shadowing and it's already important.
The farm produces around 6 tons of cocoa and this lot is a third of that.
It has been tested in a laboratory and no pests residues nor heave metals have been found.
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