Cacao Beans

It starts here with cacao beans. Harvested cacao beans are dried, fermented and cracked to create these small chunks called cacao nibs.

Cacao Nibs

Cacao nibs are either roasted or unroasted. Unroasted are referred to as ‘raw’.

Cacao Liquor

Cacao liquor is made by crushing the cacao nibs and contains roughly equal amounts of cacao butter and cacao powder. The liquor will be in a solid or semi-solid form and is sometimes described as paste.

Cacao Butter

This is a pure stable plant-fat that is extracted by pressing cacao liquor to separate the fat from the solids (powder). Creating cacao butter.

Cacao Powder

When the plant fat (butter) is separated and removed from the cacao liquor what remains is this cacao powder.