Venezuelan black 100% rio caribe 180g

Willie's Cacao

Venezuelan black 100% rio caribe 180g

Sale price£8.95

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Notes of nuts & coffee. Use this 100% cocoa in both savoury and sweet dishes for real depth of flavour.

Keep it by your cooker and grate a few grammes into all kinds of savoury dishes in the same way as you would add salt or pepper to bring real richness and depth.

If you are a purist, make your cakes and desserts with 100% cacao as this has more acidity left in than 70% chocolate and so will carry its flavour better with other ingredients.

If a recipe asks for 100g dark chocolate, simply put in 70g of cacao and an extra 30g of sugar.

100% natural. Vegan. No added sugar.

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100% Rio Caribe cacao is a true cook’s ingredient; it inspires.

It will bring depth of flavour and shine to gravies, casserole, risottos, soups etc

Rio Caribe is the absolute classic cacao for baking and is the bean Ottolenghi uses to make his brownies with.

It pairs particularly well with spirits like rum, cognac and whisky.

The bean

Rio Caribe is a king among cacaos.

It is grown on the Paria Peninsula on the north eastern side of Venezuela and takes its name from the small fishing port of Rio Caribe.

Farming methods are traditional and no chemicals are used.

It is an exceptionally fine Trinitario bean, and has really unusual levels of depth and complexity.

It’s nutty coffee notes unfold slowly and stay with you.

Ingredients

Cocoa Solids: 100%

Free from dairy, alcohol, gluten, nuts and soya.

Fairly Traded Fairly traded
Natural Ingredients Natural ingredients
Plastic Free Plastic free
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About the brand
Willie's Cacao

Willie’s passion for chocolate was born of a love of adventure. That spirit took him to Venezuela and led to him buying Hacienda El Tesoro in the cloud forest. Fifteen years later he started the first bean to bar chocolate factory in Britain for hundreds of years. Willie says he’s a cacao farmer first and an artisan chocolate maker second. His philosophy of chocolate? He’d like to introduce everyone to the beautiful flavours of real chocolate, made with the great single estate cacaos of the world and 100% natural ingredients.

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Sustainability

Sustainability

Growing cacao without pesticide or chemicals

From the moment Willie’s plant their cacao trees they’re tending them, cleaning around the bases to keep the weeds away and making sure that they’re properly irrigated. No pesticides, fertiliser or chemical of any description have ever been used on their cacao trees, which are irrigated by water that runs down from the cloud forest-topped mountains.

Delivery & Returns

Delivery & Returns

Standard delivery

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Packed seeds, not boxed (UK-only): £2.75

Unfortunately for a small number of postcodes in remote areas of mainland UK we cannot guarantee free delivery. As a charity we set our postage charges according to our courier and have to pass on any additional charges. If you are unsure if your postcode falls into one of these areas please phone our customer services: 01726 818891.

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To reduce the products' carbon footprint and to offer you a wider selection of products, we have a number of brands/suppliers dispatching directly to you from their warehouses. 

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    To be eligible for a return, your item must be in the same condition that you received it, unworn or unused, with tags, and in its original packaging. 

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    Free UK standard delivery on all orders* over £50 for products dispatched directly by Eden Project (*Some exceptions apply). This product is dispatched by Eden Project within 1-3 working days with next day delivery as the standard delivery service, we aim to send all orders as soon as they’re placed.

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