Any chocolate lover can probably tell you that cacao is the most important ingredient in any chocolate confection. But not ...

sweet stuff is made from a fruit — cacao fruit, to be exact, which houses cacao beans. Once processed and sweetened, it's ...

cacao powder The plant used to make chocolate is called the cacao tree. It makes a fruit called cacao beans. Raw beans can be crushed into cacao powder. But if the beans are roasted first ...

Cacao beans held great prominence in the daily lives of Mesoamerican Indians. According to the Mayan and Mexica religions, cacao had divine origins as the god Quetzalcoatl discovered cacao.

In honor of Valentine's Day, for the next two weeks ahead of Feb. 14, Lost Recipes is going to pay tribute to this beloved ...

As we near Valentine’s Day, we also wonder, how and when did chocolates become an indispensable part of Valentine ...

Cacao fruit in the Ecuadorean rainforest ... Only one chocolate bar has ever been made from British-grown cocoa beans Growing cocoa beans is a tricky business. The plants only thrive close ...

Belizean Beans in the USA 20 Metric Tons of Premium Cacao Beans are now available for purchase in Utah. 40 Metric Tons of Couverture Chocolate is warehoused in Texas, ready for culinary artisans ...

Made with beans sourced from Ghana ... chocolate bars from TCHO combine two types of chocolate; a Peruvian fruit-forward cacao on the inside, coated in a fudgy Ghanaian chocolate shell.