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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Why we use raw cacao in our bars
At Meraki Cacao, it’s our aim to create a delicious treat using healthy ingredients. We choose to use raw cacao nibs as our main ingredient, which we stone grind before creating our bars. Cacao, pronounced ‘Ka-Cow’, has been revered for centuries by the...
Eco Friendly Packaging
At Meraki Cacao, it's important that our packaging is as environmentally as possible. Our bars are wrapped in oxo-degradable bubble wrap. This is a more environmentally friendly form of cushion packaging, and is 100% recyclable. This bubble wrap is treated with...
Cacao Chia Pudding
This is.such an easy recipe to do. It’s absolutely delicious and guilt free...Chia seeds are packed full of protein and fibre. Soaking them over night makes them swell up and makes the mixture thick and luxurious. The cacao, raspberry, rose hip and sea buckthorn...