Bare Bones – Scoops Kekeli, Togo, Dark 70% (Christmas Special)

About the bar

We’re always excited to try the festive flavours of Bare Bones’ Christmas chocolate bars, and this year is no different – the 70% dark bar has tasting notes of red berries, yule log, and a hint of coconut on the finish.

About the maker

Bare Bones Chocolate was founded in Glasgow in 2018 by Lara and Cameron, two craft chocolate lovers who decided to try their hand making their own. The results speak for themselves! Multiple successes at the International Chocolate Awards and Great Taste Awards have followed, and their beautiful packaging, made from recycled paper coffee cups and repurposed food waste, highlights their commitment to great taste while protecting the planet and its people.

The beans

The beans in this bar are sourced from Togo, and are grown in a region spanning 57,000km between Ghana and Benin. The area, Mount Agou Plateaux, stretches along Togo’s main river, Mono. These beans are farmed by Abra from her 100 hectares cocoa farm, near Mount Agou. Abra is the founder and director of Kekeli cooperative, of which 290 smallholder farmers are associated member and co-owner. The farmers have between 0.5 to 3 hectares of cacao on their land. Around 100 associated farmers bring their wet beans for central fermentation, with others applying controlled heap fermentation on their own farm.  The dried beans are collected and screened and packed by Kekeli cooperative.

Allergens*

May contain milk

Ingredients

Cocoa beans, raw unrefined cane sugar, cocoa butter. organic

*Allergen advice: We directly import, and purchase, all products from independent makers and have these shipped by our partner warehouse (which is not certified allergen-free), and so we cannot guarantee that any product will be allergen-free. Even where an allergen is not listed, products may have been produced, shipped, or stored in facilities which handle allergens.

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