IDUKKI MOCHA

This IDUKKI cow's milk chocolate is made with one of the two beans that comes to us from Asia.
Idukki comes from Kerala in South India. It is this bean that we have chosen to make our “dark milk” or milky dark bar.

Here we decided to combine chocolate with coffee through the presence of milk to create a smooth bar with very present coffee aromas but without losing the notes of Idukki cocoa.

We use Café de Fève, a Parisian roasting workshop which selects and roasts micro batches of single-origin coffee from the best terroirs (this is the coffee we serve on Rue du Nil). With each new batch (between 200 and 400 Plaq) we change the coffee origin. At the moment it's a Colombian coffee (see ingredients).

The combination of milk chocolate and coffee is very pleasant with its slightly tangy then biscuity taste.

The milk chocolate and coffee mixture which is called “Mocha” here gives a chocolate with a smooth and creamy body with smooth and long-lasting coffee notes on the palate. Tangy fruity notes (citrus and passion fruit) and notes of brown sugar.

5 INGREDIENTS. NOTHING ELSE.

Idukki organic cocoa beans from Kerala India (34%), unrefined organic cane sugar from the state of São Paulo Brazil (25%), natural and traceable organic cocoa butter, origin varying according to harvest (13%), milk powder organic cow (26% fat) origin Pays de la Loire France (21%), Elmer Mego Gonzalez coffee beans origin Cajamaca Peru (7%) roasted by bean. Without lecithin.

Idukki cocoa has its sources in the state of Kerala in southwest India. This region, nicknamed "the garden of God himself", offers fertile land and a very humid climate, suitable for growing cocoa trees.

Nestled in the hills of Idukki, cocoa is grown by some 200 farmers (brought together within the GoGround Beans & Spices agricultural cooperative) in the middle of the forest, in the canopies. It is in the midst of spice plantations, fruit trees and palm trees that the fresh and spicy nuances of these beans develop.

Idukki cocoa beans are the result of a blend of Forastero and Trinitario beans. Idukki cocoa is soft and creamy, with a certain freshness, with hints of spices, cardamom and pepper and on the finish notes of nuts and dried fruits.

Beyond their aromatic quality, we appreciate the possibility of being able to purchase cocoa butter directly from the producer from the same beans and whose aromas are preserved. The cooperative has its own hydraulics which allows it to transform part of its production into cocoa butter and powder. Such an offer is rare. Most of the world's production of cocoa butter and powder is generally deodorized, completely untraceable and therefore the opposite of our expectations.

Each bag delivered is individually transformed into chocolate in the Bean To Bar philosophy, in a "micro batch", in order to stay as close as possible to the aromatic specificities which can vary from one batch to another.

The beans are tasted, sorted, roasted at low temperature, mixed with unrefined cane sugar, cocoa butter and cow's or sheep's milk powder, stone-conched for 3 days. The pure milk chocolate thus obtained will then be melted to be molded and packaged into bars or used to coat our dried fruits and rocks, or in pastries.

Weight: 60g

Price per kilo: €191.67/kg

Nutritional Values ​​per 100g = Energy: 2214 kJ / 537 kcal, Fat: 37.6g (including saturated fatty acids: 23.2), Carbohydrates: 36g (including sugars: 33.7g), Dietary fiber: 14.1g, Protein 13.5g, Salt: 0.2g.