Cacao Liquor - Raw Organic
Single origin, certified organic, fairly traded raw cacao liquor from Satipo in the Peruvian Amazon. Loving Earth's Cacao liquor is raw, and minimally processed.
What is it?
Loving Earth's certified organic Cacao Liquor comes from Satipo in Peru. Cacao Liquor is made when Cacao Beans or Nibs are slow ground into what looks like chocolate paste. Once the paste becomes smooth, it is poured into trays and left to solidify into Liquor.
Loving Earth's Cacao Liquor is the foundation of both our Cacao Powder and Cacao butter. It is the cold pressing of the liquid Liquor that separates the butter from powder. The slow grinding of the nibs naturally produces heat through friction, and the liquor can get as warm as 40 degrees. No other heat is applied to the raw materials through the liquor processing.
Cacao Liquor is sometimes referred to as Cocoa Mass, and has been used by the chocolate industry for hundreds of years as the core ingredient of all Cacao-based confectionary. It is the main ingredient in most conventional chocolate bars, though the liquor traditionally has milk by-products, sugar and lecithin added, which is the basic formulation of all conventional chocolate bars. This is how "chocolate" is usually found in the local supermarket. Loving Earth's Cacao Liquor is raw, and minimally processed.
