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Rio Caribe Dark cooking chocolate. Couverture chocolate drops by willies cacao.

Willie’s Cacao | Rio Caribe 72% bulk dark chocolate drops

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Used by Ottolenghi for over 10 years to make the brownies for his cafes.

IDEAL FOR COOKING "Love this chocolate has a great rich flavour and you know it’s responsibly sourced. Great to get it in buttons ready for cooking as far easier to melt." Alison P. on Bakerybits.co.uk, 08.12.2022

RIO CARIBE 72% DARK CHOCOLATE 1KG

Name: RIO CARIBE 72% DARK CHOCOLATE 1KG | Willie's Cacao
Brand: Willie's Cacao
SKU: WC-RIODROPS1KG
Price: 29.5 GBP
Availability: InStock

Couverture chocolate drops. Nutty, coffee notes. Vegan

These Chef’s Drops are made bean to bar, from the fine trinitario Venezuelan Rio Caribe cacao. It has incredible depth and complexity making it the classic chocolate for cakes and brownies.

Flavour Notes. Incredible depth, with complex nut, coffee, roasted notes. Robust, flavour carries with intensity.

Pairings. Coffee, brown spirits like rum, brandy and whisky, cinnamon, hazelnuts, sour cherries, berries and cream.

A bulk chocolate pack of drops: 2g weight, 2.3cm diameter. See cooking section for uses.

£29.50

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THE CHOCOLATE

INGREDIENTS

THE BEAN

COOKING

Cooking with this remarkable Single Estate Venezuelan Rio Caribe couverture dark chocolate is a revelation.

Cakes and desserts are transformed by the wonderful depth and complex flavour notes of the cacao. To create a completely clean palette for chefs to work on, we don’t use soya lecithin or vanilla.

All our chocolates perfectly reflect the distinct flavour notes of their beans, so you can choose the one perfect for your recipe.

Rio Caribe’s robust flavour and notes of nuts and coffee make it the classic chocolate for cakes and brownies. I find it pairs perfectly with brown spirits like brandy and rum.

These cooking chocolate drops are 2g in weight and 2.3cm in diameter making them easy to weigh and melt.

Only Natural Ingredients
Cocoa solids: 72% minimum.
Ingredients: cocoa mass , raw cane sugar, cocoa butter

Dietary Information
Suitable for vegans
Free from dairy, alcohol, gluten, nuts and soya

Nutritional
Information

Average Quantity
per 100g

Energy

2340

564

Fat total

39.6.

Saturated fat

24.1

Carbohydrates

37.7

Sugar

26.7

Protein

9.2

Salt

0.01

Willie himself is a cocoa farmer, so we buy our beans directly from the farmers, paying premium prices.

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.

Cooking with this extraordinary Venezuelan Rio Caribe 72% dark chocolate is a real pleasure.

It’s coffee nutty notes make it my go to chocolate for cakes, brownies and baked chocolate puddings.

Also good for moulding, truffles, ice cream and ganache.

They are easy to weigh and quick to melt and bring beautiful deep pure flavours.

Ottolenghi uses exactly these Rio Caribe drops to make all his brownies.

Their classic chocolatey flavour makes them perfect fo all kinds of cakes.

They pair particularly well with spirits like rum, cognac and whisky.