Dairy free chocolate. Welcome to Meraki Cacao.
Dairy free chocolate. Welcome to Meraki Cacao.
ABOUT MERAKI CACAO – DAIRY FREE CHOCOLATE
INGREDIENTS AND ETHOS
OUR PRODUCTS
THE STORY BEHIND MERAKI CACAO
I’m Vicky, the founder of Meraki Cacao. I love chocolate and have been tinkering about with making it since 2016. I also love healthy foods and believe that what we eat should nourish our bodies, even treats! After trying and disliking pretty much every ‘healthy’ chocolate out there, I set about creating my own.
I knew I wanted to make a ‘raw’ chocolate dense in nutrients and refined sugar free. ‘Raw’ means that I use unroasted cacao nibs and raw cacao butter. These are stone ground, together with our special sweetener for around 30 hours. This unusual method produces an incredibly smooth mixture which means that once they’ve been made into bars, will melt in your mouth.
Whilst grinding, the mix is kept below 45 degrees centigrade to preserve as many nutrients as possible. Natural flavours are added at the end of the grinding process. The mix is hand tempered and then moulded into bars. All the bars are made with organic ingredients and are gluten free, refined sugar free and dairy free. Apart from the Aztec flavour (contains raw honey), all of them are suitable for vegans. All the bars are made with ground cashew nuts, some contain either hazelnuts or almonds. One flavour also contains sesame. Our products may also contain traces of peanuts. They are not suitable for nut or sesame allergy sufferers.Click here to read more.
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Choc Chip Recipe
We fancied a cookie this afternoon with our cuppa and searched for a healthier cookie recipe. We were inspired by the gorgeous cookie recipe on the Deliciously Ella website. You can use any flour and any of our Meraki Cacao bars. The cookies are so...
Things we love about our Carnival bar
The inspiration Carnival is inspired by our trips to the Caribbean! Did you know that there are over 700 islands included in the Caribbean region? They are all located southeast of the Gulf of Mexico and of the North American mainland, east of Central America, and...
Lucuma
Every ingredient we use in our bars is nutritious. We want our delicious cacao bars to nourish our bodies as well as being a healthy treat. We chose to put Lucuma in all of our bars for its delicious tase as well as its amazing health benefits. Lucuma is native to...