Cocoa Content: 85% Dark Chocolate
Cocoa Origin: Markham Valley, PNG
Our craft hot chocolates are shaved into convenient granules for your winter hot chocolate needs. There are no powders, emulsifiers, soy or dairy added. Just real chocolate, ready for your mug. This is our darkest drinking chocolate with a low sugar content and strong in aroma and flavour.
Ingredients
Cocoa nibs, raw sugar, cocoa butter
The above three ingredients are stone ground over 30 hours until it resembles a beautiful, luscious chocolate. This chocolate is set, shaved and stored in jars without any added fillers, cheap powders or gums.
Weight
Each jar contains 200 grams of shaved chocolate
Dietary
Vegan friendly
No nuts
No gluten
No dairy
No soy
Hot Chocolate Recipe
We recommend the following ratio:
30 grams Chocolate
200 ml Choice of Milk/Water
You can prepare this on the stove, in a milk frother or microwave. Heat 200ml choice of milk or water with 30g of the drinking chocolate mix and stir well or froth until desired temperature.
Like it sweeter or richer? Add more chocolate and sugar.
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.
