Hand made Cacao Bars. Welcome to Meraki Cacao.
Hand made Cacao Bars. Welcome to Meraki Cacao.
ABOUT MERAKI CACAO – HAND MADE CACAO BARS
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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We’ve won an award!
The Nourish Awards are the UK's leading health food awards which started in 2018. They are widely recognised in the industry, for their robust judging process and criteria for businesses of all sizes. Since 2019, we have entered one of our bars each year. In 2021...
Going Local With The Hairy Bikers
At the end of July 2021, I was having a day out along the Northumberland Coast with my family when I received a phone call that I couldn't quite believe. This lovely lady asked me a series of questions about me and my products, and to be honest, I thought she wanted...
Recipes to try – Biscotti
Biscotti are classic Italian biscuits. Also known as Cantucci, these almond biscuits originated in the Tuscan city of Prato. Biscotti is the plural of biscotto which means twice baked. Traditionally oblong shaped these biscuits are twice baked to make them...