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Additive & Filler Free
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IxCacao Heavenly Cacao Drops - Hispaniola Fermented Beans
✧ What are IxCacao cacao drops?
Sip, Savour & Celebrate: Pure Chocolate Joy!
These exquisite, bite-sized cacao drops are little tokens of love, perfect for snacking, stirring into warm milk for the most heart-warming hot chocolate and melting into your favourite recipes.
Made from highly prized, single-origin organic Hispaniola beans, our Ixcacao Heavenly Drops are pure organic cacao liquor: rich, dark, and beautifully fruity. Through careful fermentation and slow sun-drying, the cacao's natural bitterness is gently softened, allowing its complex, magical essence to shine through: deep, nourishing, and beautiful.
✧ What is cacao paste (cacao liquor)?
Authentic Cacao
Cacao paste, also known as cocoa liquor or cocoa mass, is chocolate in its purest, most elegant form.
Each cacao pod holds rows of jewel-like beans, nestled in a sweet, fragrant pulp. After harvesting, the beans are carefully fermented, a vital step that awakens their flavour and softens the cacao's natural bitterness. The beans plump up and are then sun-dried to reduce their moisture content and lock in the cacao's richness and heady fragrance.
Roasting deepens the cacao's flavour, revealing the most exquisite chocolatey essence. The beans are then cracked to expose the nibs (the heart of cacao), and the nibs are stone-ground into a smooth, unadulterated paste known as cacao mass or liquor.
The paste is then poured into moulds to become the heavenly drops you'll find in your Na'vi pouch.
Pure Cacao
This is the purest expression of chocolate: bold, complex and alive with the vitality of its origins. Cacao's spirit is full of playfulness, sensuality and joy. Enjoy a taste of the exotic, every day!
✧ What's in our IxCacao?
Ingredients
100% Pure - Single-Origin Organic Cacao Paste
- Pure Cacao Paste, made exclusively from organic Hispaniola beans (fermented and sun-dried)
- Single-origin from the Dominican Republic
- Organic
- Vegan
- Authentically and traditionally prepared
- No added fillers or preservatives
Product carefully sourced from the Dominican Republic. Click here for info on our sourcing policy. Tested for purity: heavy metals and other contaminants. View the Certificate of Analysis.
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✧ What's the difference between cacao and cocoa?
Cacao and cocoa both come from the same bean, Theobroma cacao. The difference is in how the bean is treated, and how the words are used. "Cacao" usually points to the bean kept close to its natural form: fermented, dried and stone-ground into pure paste, with nothing added, the way ours is. "Cocoa" more often describes the heavily processed, blended chocolate on supermarket shelves, where the cacao is mixed with sugar, milk solids or alkali (Dutch-processing) and much of its character is lost.
Our IxCacao drops are pure organic cacao paste, also called cacao liquor or cacao mass: single-origin, with nothing added and nothing taken away.
✧ Where does our organic cacao come from?
Grown on organically certified, family-owned farms in the Dominican Republic, our organic cacao thrives beneath a canopy of native citrus, banana and avocado trees, a living example of agroforestry and ecological harmony. The beans are grown organically and prepared the traditional way, carefully fermented and slowly sun-dried, before being made into our pure cacao paste.
✧ How do you use cacao drops?
The rich, naturally fruity flavour of these luxurious drops makes them a heavenly treat to enjoy straight from the pouch.
For an authentic hot chocolate, simply melt around 10 drops into warm milk. Sweeten gently with our Organic Rapadura for a deliciously uplifting cup of pure cacao goodness. Add a pinch of salt and chilli to bring out the flavours even more.
☀️ In Summer, leave the hot chocolate to cool and then pour over ice for a refreshing and gently luxurious drink at any time of the day!
Our drops are also perfect for baking and enriching your favourite recipes.
Or have a lot of fun making your own healthy chocolate with a pinch of salt and vanilla, orange zest or warming spices like cardamon. Real chocolate can be dairy-free, delicious and nourishing.
Read below how others enjoy their Ixcacao drops, the possibilities are endless. Have fun, almost everything is better with a drop of chocolate!
✧ Who is Ixcacao, the Mayan goddess?
✨ A drop of devotion
Named in honour of Ixcacao, the ancient Mayan goddess of cacao, fertility, abundance and joy, these heavenly drops celebrate cacao as sacred. Ixcacao was revered as a compassionate goddess of nourishment and pleasure. Her presence invites us to open the heart, soften against the edges of modern life and remember the sweetness of simple things.
