Cocoa

Description

Cocoa powder and chocolate originate from the harvested and fermented seeds of football-shaped pods grown on fragile tropical cacao trees native to thick rainforests of Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula and the Amazon. The ancient Olmecs, Mayans and Aztecs used “food of the gods” cocoa beans as currency. When mixed with sugar, extra cocoa butter and milk, cocoa creates rich hot chocolate and sweet baked goods we love today like chocolate cake, cookies and ganache. Provides concentrated chocolate flavor.