Pump Street Chocolate – Kekeli, Togo Milk 44% Taster Bar

About the bar

This mini creamy milk chocolate bar honours the natural buttermilk chocolatey flavour of the Togolese beans, whilst offering gentle nutty notes and a maple sweetness.

About the maker

After a long and successful career at IBM, international jet-setter Chris Brennan briefly retired before deciding to pioneer the making of sourdough and other breads in his idyllic countryside bakery in Orford, Suffolk. About a decade later, he and his daughter Joanna decided to delve into crafting award-winning chocolate in their eponymous bakery situated on Pump Street, and have won numerous awards for both their chocolates and their innovative packaging.

The beans

The beans in this bar are sourced from Togo, and are grown in a region spanning 57,000 km between Ghana and Benin. The area, Mount Agou Plateaux, stretches along Togo’s main river, Mono. The climate here is ideal for cultivating cacao, with average temperatures of 26 degrees celsius, and rainfall which exceeds 1000 mm each year. Cocoa is Togo’s third biggest export product, and the cacao produced at Togo Kekeli is expertly processed to highlight the beans nature buttermilk and chocolate mousse notes.

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 cereals containing gluten, may contain eggs, milk, may contain nuts, may contain sesame

Ingredients

Cane sugar, cocoa beans, organic cocoa butter, whole milk powder, skimmed milk powder

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