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IxCacao Heavenly Cacao Drops - Hispaniola Fermented Beans
✧ What are IxCacao cacao drops?
Pure, unsweetened cacao in its most beautiful form
These exquisite, bite-sized drops are 100% pure cacao, without sugar and additives. They are the real cacao liquor: rich, dark, and beautifully fruity. Melt them into the most heart-warming hot chocolate, bake with them, or add them through your favourite recipes. If you love deep, intense dark cacao you can savour a drop on its own, but these are not a sweetened chocolate to snack on by the handful.
Made from highly prized, single-origin organic Hispaniola beans. Through careful fermentation and slow sun-drying, the cacao's natural bitterness is gently softened, allowing its complex, magical essence to shine through.
✧ Are IxCacao drops sweet, or can you eat them like chocolate?
Our IxCacao Drops are made from just one ingredient: 100% pure cacao. Naturally unsweetened, they are crafted from the whole cacao bean to preserve its full depth of flavour.
On their own, they have a deep, rich flavour with a little bitterness. If you're expecting a sweet chocolate treat, these may come as a surprise.
Think of them as the starting point for chocolate rather than the finished confection. Melt them into a hot chocolate, blend them into smoothies or milkshakes for a delicious ice-cold chocolate drink, use for cooking and to make your own chocolate. If you enjoy very dark chocolate, you may also like a drop or two just as they are.
Pure cacao is a different experience altogether. Rich, satisfying and beautifully simple, it offers the true character of the cacao bean in its most natural form.
✧ Is IxCacao a ceremonial cacao?
Many people would describe IxCacao as a ceremonial cacao. Although the term is now widely used, it is not a regulated or recognised grade of cacao. Instead, it has come to describe whole cacao prepared with exceptional care to preserve as much of its natural character as possible.
Unlike most cocoa products, ceremonial cacao is made from the whole bean, naturally retaining its cacao butter to create a rich, velvety cacao paste with a deep, complex flavour.
Our cacao is carefully fermented, dried, peeled and stone-ground using traditional methods, with nothing added and nothing removed.
In many ways, what is now called ceremonial cacao is simply the result of extraordinary care being given to every stage of growing, harvesting and processing. That same philosophy guides how we choose every producer we work with. Rather than chasing trends or relying on marketing terms, we look for growers and makers whose care and attention naturally create cacao of the highest standard.
✧ What's in our IxCacao drops?
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
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.
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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✧ How do you use cacao drops?
If you love intense, unsweetened dark cacao, these drops can be enjoyed just as they are, a little square of pure chocolate richness. For most people, though, they come into their own once melted into a drink, baked into a recipe, or sweetened to taste.
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!
✧ 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.
✧ 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.
✧ 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.
