Chococard – Cacahoatán, Mexico, Dark 74%

About the bar

This 74% dark bar from Chococard is made with beans sourced from Chiapas, Mexico, which gives the bar a deliciously green & characteristically spicy flavour.

About the maker

Chococard was founded in 2011 by husband-and-wife duo Izabella Foki and Zoltán Koncos. The pair decided to enter into the world of chocolate for two simple reasons – Izabella needed a job, and both of them loved chocolate. Izabella had attended a handful of small chocolate-making workshops, and had learnt enough to temper chocolate herself. When Izabella and Zoltán first started out, the pair were using couverture chocolate as they believed that their chocolate was slave-free, and they were fair with farmers. After a few years, Izabella and Zoltán learned that most of this was marketing, and decided to dive headfirst into making their very own line of bean-to-bar chocolate bars, with Zoltán joining fulltime in 2017. The name ‘Chococard’ was inspired by their very first product – a decorated chocolate bar in a box which was specially designed to hold a postcard.

The beans

The cacao for this bar come from Finca La Rioja farm in Cacahoatán, Chiapas, Mexico.  The farm is very proud of its chocolate growing heritage — noting that “Cacahoatan means “Place of Cacao” in the ancient Toltec language”.  Moreover Chiapas was the centre of cacao commerce in Mesoamerica when the Spanish reached the area in 1522 – some of the first cacao brought to Europe was grown in Chiapas.

Allergens*

May contain milk, may contain nuts

Ingredients

Cocoa beans 70%, organic cane sugar 26%, organic cocoa butter 4%

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