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Vegan Hand Painted Dark Chocolate Single Origin Easter Egg

Vegan Hand Painted Dark Chocolate Single Origin Easter Egg
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All Easter Eggs will start shipping from 13th March

 

The 80% Maya Mountain is our newest dark chocolate and has already become one of our favourites! Nutty and chocolatey to begin and notes of tropical flavours including pineapple, honey, ginger and passion fruit. It's complex and rich, yet bright and exciting, with a long lasting finish.

 

About the cacao:

Founded in 2010, this centralized fermentation put Belize on the craft chocolate map as a pioneer in the social enterprise model.

 

The country’s first exporter of high-quality, centrally fermented cacao to the U.S. Today, they work with 420 smallholder farming families in the Toledo and South Stann Creek districts. Most of these producers are Q’eqchi’ and Mopan Maya, for whom cacao production goes back generations.

 

Maya Mountain Cacao’s 100% Belizean Maya team processes all cacao at a centralized facility where three unique stages of sun drying create optimal flavour. Maya Mountain Cacao is focused on building long-term, transparent partnerships with farmers and producing uniquely delicious cacao that supports the communities of southern Belize.

 

Terroir:

Belize’s rich history of cacao production, combined with the country’s stunning limestone karstic landscape and lowland tropical rainforest, created the perfect storm of flavour that was waiting to be fine-tuned through centralized post-harvest. While ancient criollo can still be found deep in Belize’s nature reserves and small private plots, the vast majority of cacao cultivated by the smallholder Maya farmers in the south are Amelonado-dominant hybrids and other Upper Amazon Forastero hybrids. Maya Mountain Cacao is intercropped with hardwood trees, banana, mango, avocado, and coconut.

 

2023 Maya Mountain Farmgate price  $3.31 USD

 

This is the actual price paid to the cacao producer for their product (typically on a per kg or per lb basis) when they sell it to the first buyer. 

 

Farmgate price is often paid for "wet" or fresh cacao, recently harvested and scooped out of cracked pods for sale. Wet cacao loses 60-70% of its weight during fermentation and drying, typically reaching 7-8% humidity before it is sold. 

We roast, crack and winnow the cacao before adding sugar and grinding continuously for 80 hours to make our chocolate. We then carefully hand paint designs into the Easter Egg mould before hand tempering our chocolate. As with all our chocolates, it has been lovingly hand made in small batches by our chocolatier Matt in Highland Perthshire.

Shelf life of our Easter Eggs is at least 12 months from date of delivery and we recommend storing them in a cool dry place away from direct sunlight.

Packaging: We send our eggs to you wrapped Flexi Hex packaging. All Paper based and designed for precious cargo.

Weight & dimensions: Approx 300g, 160x90x90mm

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Ingredients:

Cocoa Solids 80% (Cocoa Mass, Cocoa Butter), Sugar. Natural colours: activated charcoal, calcium carbonate, turmeric,blue spirulina, sweet potato.

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    Made by hand
    Made by hand
    Ethically sourced
    Ethically sourced
    Small batch
    Small batch
    Vegan
    Vegan
    Made to order
    Made to order
    Gluten free
    Gluten free
    Vegetarian
    Vegetarian
    Kid-friendly
    Kid-friendly
    Dairy free
    Dairy free
    Artificial ingredients free
    Artificial ingredients free
    Preservative free
    Preservative free
    Wheat free
    Wheat free
    Nut free
    Nut free
    GMO free
    GMO free
    MSG free
    MSG free
    Trans fats free
    Trans fats free
    Soy free
    Soy free
    Egg free
    Egg free
    High fructose corn syrup free
    High fructose corn syrup free
    Peanut free
    Peanut free
    Yeast free
    Yeast free
    Alcohol free
    Alcohol free
    Antibiotics/ synthetic hormones free
    Antibiotics/ synthetic hormones free
    Low salt / sodium
    Low salt / sodium
    Sustainably farmed
    Sustainably farmed
    Direct from the farm
    Direct from the farm
    Supports charity
    Supports charity
    Family-owned business
    Family-owned business
    Made in the UK
    Made in the UK
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