Vegan friendly chocolate. Welcome to Meraki Cacao.
Vegan friendly chocolate. Welcome to Meraki Cacao.
ABOUT MERAKI CACAO – VEGAN FRIENDLY 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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Things we love about our California bar
1. The inspiration The inspiration for this flavour came from a road trip around parts of California - see part 5 of this blog. California is a state located the western part of USA. Although it is known for its lovely warm weather, the size of the region...
Our amazing sweetener, Palmyra Blossom Nectar
At Meraki Cacao, we believe that every ingredient that goes into our bars should do something good for our bodies. We were looking for an alternative to refined sugar and after lots of research we came across the most amazing sweeter, Palmyra Blossom Nectar. We...
Things we love about our Aztec bar
The inspiration Did you know that the origins of drinking chocolate started as long ago as 500 B.C.? Cacao originated in central and south America and the Mayans, (indigenous people of Mexico) would make a drink from it. The Mayans would grind up cacao beans with...