Cocoa Retreat – Peru, Cacao Pulp Dark Truffles 73%

About the truffles

Cacao pulp is the sweet white mucilage that surrounds the seeds inside a cocoa pod. It’s the only part of the fruit that is pleasant to eat raw, and gives a pleasant tropical tartness with hints of lychee, guanabana, citrus and banana.

Organic Ecuadorean cacao fruit purée has been combined with smooth 73% dark Peruvian chocolate to form these wonderfully complex dark chocolate clusters, which come in packs of 3.

About the maker

Cocoa Retreat is a one woman operation producing small batch craft chocolate. Oenone Thomas is a chocolate maker with an incredible sense for good flavours, using her expertise to roast to perfection and create wonderful recipes for each variety of cacao bean.

In Oenone’s first career, she trained and worked as a journalist before moving on to become a child and adolescent counsellor. Behind the scenes, she has always had a love for chocolate, initially this was  a hobby for finding new and wonderful chocolate and a joy for eating it. Slowly, she developed the knowhow for producing small batch chocolate and has since been perfecting her craft.

The beans

The Chuncho beans used to make these truffles are sourced from Peru, while the cacao fruit purée is sourced from a family farm in Palo Santo.

Nutritional info coming soon.

Allergens*

No allergens listed by maker.

Ingredients

Cocoa beans, sugar, cocoa butter, organic cacao fruit puree

*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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