Cocoa Content: 65% dark
Tastes Like: Blackcurrant, Milo, Brownie
Sour dried cherries and crunchy pieces of caramelised chocolate toffee for a fun, textured take on the much loved black forest cake.
Ingredients
64% dark craft chocolate (cacao beans, cocoa butter, organic raw sugar), malt crunch (64% dark chocolate, caster sugar, water), organic sour dried cherries, vegetable oil
Dietary Details
Vegan friendly
No nuts
No gluten
No soy
Weight
65 grams
Who is Planet Cocoa?
Started by Melbourne pastry chef, Jeanette Macko, Planet Cocoa is an australian made chocolate shop.
About Planet Cocoa Planet cocoa is a craft chocolate maker who transforms raw cocoa beans into chocolate, all from scratch. our chocolate range is free from dairy, soy and preservatives
How we make our Chocolate
Our chocolate is made from scratch. This means we start with the cocoa bean and process it into the smooth chocolate that we know and love.
How is chocolate made?
There is a long process that we undergo to get to our final product and here’s a brief outline of this craft process.
Sorting and roasting the beans
Crushing the cocoa beans
Winnowing the huskaway from the cocoa nibs*
Stone grinding for up to 36 hours
Temper and mould the chocolate into blocks OR solidify and crush into drinking chocolate granules
*We save the husk waste for distilleries and other projects as we want to be low waste!
Where do you get your cocoa beans?
The beans that we currently source are from:
Papua New Guinea
Malatai, Solomon Islands
About ethically sourced chocolate...
The cocoa industry has been running rampant to keep up with the high global demand for chocolate. In order to maintain the supply to meet our demand, it has made cost-cuts elsewhere; in this case at the expense of lives, communities, and the environment. It has caused child slavery, child labour, exploitation, deforestation, poisoning due to hazardous chemical use, to name a few.
But we don’t want to put a bad taste in your mouth… It’s not all bad news. Artisan chocolate crafters, like us, are passionate about sourcing cocoa from suppliers who can provide transparency into the trade and the impacts on their community.
Ethical and sustainable trade is paramount for our craft as without cocoa communities continuing their farming, fermenting and drying, there is no chocolate: no Planet Cocoa.
Australian Made and Owned
Planet Cocoa products are all made in Australia by a female founded team from locally and ethically sourced ingredients.
We research our ingredients and prefer to use locally Australian grown ingredients where possible.
