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| Percentage cacao | 85 |
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Dandelion – Maya Mountain 85%
Original price was: $24.95.$21.50Current price is: $21.50.
“The beans for this bar come from Maya Mountain Cacao, Ltd., a social enterprise that buys freshly harvested, unfermented cacao from indigenous Mayan smallholder farmers in southern Belize, then gathers the beans at a centralized fermentary in Punta Gorda. By fermenting and drying all the beans in one place, Maya Mountain Cacao carefully controls quality and flavor consistency in their cocoa, allowing them to fetch a high price. This in turn empowers Maya Mountain Cacao to pay farmers extremely well for their beans.
Trevor was the Origin Lead for our Tokyo factory’s Maya Mountain bars crafted from both the 2015 and 2016 harvests, as well as for the 2018, 2021, and 2022 harvest bars produced in San Francisco. For this 2023 harvest, he roasts the beans at a higher temperature to bring out punchy berry notes.”
Ingredients: Cacao beans, sugar.
This bar has a best before date (MAY 2026) – it will still be great to enjoy but could start to loose it’s temper.
Only 1 left in stock
- Best before 01/05/2026
Cameron Ring and Todd Masonis started experimenting with chocolate in a friend’s garage back in 2010. Two years earlier they had sold their successful internet start-up company, Plaxo, and what started as a fun hobby soon became their next passion.While they may be based in San Francisco and have a tech start-up mentality, this is pure chocolate. Dandelion bars are made with beans from one farm or cooperative at a time, and they contain simply cocoa beans and sugar - no extra cocoa butter, lecithin or vanilla are added, so you really taste the unique flavour of each bean. You can learn more about the Dandelion chocolate making process here.Dandelion Chocolate is also one of the few "craft chocolate" companies to have factories in multiple countries. We're super lucky that we've been able to visit both tour their original factory and their new one in Japan. It's hard to pick which was more fun - in San Francisco we got to tour the factory & play with their marga (also know as doing a cut test - it was harder to push through 100 beans than we realised!) - in Tokyo we had to queue up to get inside but everyone was in perfect pairs and it definitely added to the excitement. We can't wait to visit their new factory at Valencia St, San Francisco when we're next allowed to travel. See more
