Barista Cacao Tin
This is the cacao we make for cafés, and the one their guests keep taking home. We roast it light and slow and never alkalise it, so it comes out bright, fruity and fermented. Closer to a bright coffee than to hot chocolate.
The tin comes with a steel scoop. Start with 125 g for 10 cups, or 250 g for 20. When it runs out, keep the tin and refill it.
Product information
Four things, all of them food.
Cacao (70%), coconut blossom sugar (organic), cinnamon (organic), Himalayan salt.
No allergens in the recipe. It's made in a facility that also handles milk, soy, gluten and nuts, so traces are possible. Every ingredient is plant-based.
| 12,5 g | 100 g | |
|---|---|---|
| Energy | 189 kJ 45 kcal |
1509 kJ 361 kcal |
| Fat | 1,4 g | 10,8 g |
| of which saturates | 0,8 g | 6,4 g |
| Carbohydrates | 4,8 g | 38,6 g |
| of which sugars | 3,2 g | 25,9 g |
| Fibre | 2,8 g | 22,7 g |
| Protein | 2,0 g | 16,1 g |
| Salt | 0,07 g | 0,56 g |
One serving = 12,5 g
How to make it
Stir 1 scoop (12,5 g) into 40 ml hot water until smooth.
Warm
Froth your milk and pour gently over the cacao base.
Iced
Pour over cold milk and ice.
No frother? Milk warmed in a pan works fine. You lose the foam, not the flavour.
Shipped from Amsterdam with PostNL, usually with you in 1 to 2 working days. In the Netherlands it's €2,95, free from €35, so two refill bags always ship free. Your first order ships free when you leave your email. Across most of Europe: €9,95, free from €100. iDEAL, PayPal and major cards.
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What it tastes like
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: 3,2 g of sugar per scoop. There to round the flavour, not to be the flavour.
With milk it turns full and smooth. Dairy or oat, hot in winter, over ice in summer.
Ingredients
Cacao (70%), coconut blossom sugar (organic), cinnamon (organic), Himalayan salt.
12,5 G · HOT OR ICED
How to make it
Five minutes, no machine needed.
Warm
One levelled scoop (12,5 g) into a cup. Stir with 40 ml hot water until smooth and thick, like an espresso. Froth 150 ml milk and pour it over.
Iced
Same start: one scoop, 40 ml hot water, stirred smooth. Fill a glass with ice and 150 ml cold milk, then pour the cacao over.
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 tin at home makes the same cup. Same cacao, same recipe.
SUBTRACTION, CHECKABLE
How it's made
Cacao from smallholder farms in Latin America, grown without synthetic pesticides. We roast it light and slow and never alkalise it, so it keeps what the bean brings: bright, fruity, fermented. When we've sourced a bean this good, it doesn't need much else.
No alkalising
No Dutch processing. It darkens the colour and flattens the flavour. We keep ours the way fermentation made it.
No synthetic pesticides
The farms grow our cacao without them. The coconut blossom sugar and the cinnamon are organic.
No refined sugar
Sweetened only with unrefined coconut blossom sugar. 3,2 g of sugar per scoop.
No additives
No gums, no flavourings, no milk powder. Cacao, coconut blossom sugar, a touch of cinnamon and a pinch of salt. That's the whole list.
No caffeine race
It's light on caffeine, so it's the one for after your last coffee.
150+ counters
More than 150 cafés pour Barista Cacao
Your favourite café might already be one of them.
GOOD QUESTIONS
The ones that come up most. At counters, in our inbox, and from people making it at home for the first time. Short answers, no hedging.
Is it bitter?
No. It's bright and a little fruity, closer to a bright coffee than to hot chocolate. The milk rounds it off. If you like it sweeter, a spoon of honey works.
Does it work with oat milk?
Yes. It's made to be poured with milk, and oat is what many of the cafés pour. If it froths, it works.
How long does a tin last?
The 125 g tin makes 10 cups, the 250 g tin 20. A refill bag makes 20 too: at a cup most days, about three weeks.
How fast is shipping?
From Amsterdam with PostNL, usually with you in 1 to 2 working days in the Netherlands. €2,95, free from €35, so two refill bags always ship free. Across most of Europe it's €9,95, free from €100.
What about allergens?
There are none in the recipe. It's made in a facility that also handles milk, soy, gluten and nuts, so traces are possible. The full ingredient list is above; if you're unsure, ask us.