Every drink is for something these days
Coffee to get you going. Energy drinks to keep you going. Even the calm ones come with a promise now. Somewhere in there, resting started to feel like work.
So we make the other kind: cacao, the way it should be, doing nothing but being good. No wings. No cause. No better you at the bottom of the cup.
A warm moment that's allowed to just be enough.
12.5 G / 200 ML · HOT OR ICED
WHAT'S IN THE CUP
Dark first, proper cacao, closer to dark chocolate than to the hot chocolate you grew up with. Then something brighter, almost fruity, that heavy processing usually takes away. Barely sweet: under 3 grams of unrefined coconut blossom sugar per cup, there to round the flavour, never to cover it. Made to be poured with milk. Dairy or oat, hot or over ice.
Ingredients
Cacao (55%), coconut blossom sugar* (22%), mushrooms* (Chaga, Reishi, Lion’s Mane) (11%), coconut milk powder*, cinnamon*, Himalayan salt. *Certified organic.
You may have already tasted it
Barista Cacao is poured at Soho House, LOT61 and Saint-Jean in Amsterdam and at counters from Antwerp to Paris to New York. More than 150 in all, most of them here in the Netherlands. If you've had a good cup of cacao lately, there's a fair chance it was ours.
The bag at home makes the same cup. Same blend, same recipe.
What we leave out
Honest food, to us, is mostly restraint: the less we do to the bean, the more of it you taste. So we roast low and slow. For flavour, not speed and the rest of the list is what we don't do.
No alkalising
No Dutch processing. It deepens the colour but neutralises the flavour. We keep ours exactly as fermentation made it.
No pesticides
Grown without synthetic pesticides. Part of the blend is already certified organic, and we're working toward certification for all of it.
No refined sugar
Under 3 g of unrefined organic coconut blossom sugar per cup.
No caffeine race
Cacao carries roughly 80% less caffeine than coffee. This cup isn't for pushing on.
No additives
No gums, no flavourings, coconut milk powder for texture, cinnamon and a pinch of salt for balance. That's the whole list.
FROM THE COUNTER TO YOUR KITCHEN
First time?
Start with the Starterkit. It has everything the recipe needs.