Krak Chocolate - Cuba - Baracoa 70%

The cacao for this bar comes from Baracoa in Cuba. The chocolate itself is made and packed in the Netherlands by Krak Chocolade.

This is a question we get regularly: the country name in the product name refers to the origin of the cacao beans, not to the country where the bar is produced.

No, there is no rum or tobacco in this bar. Rum and tobacco are flavour notes that come from the Cuban cacao itself.

The flavour profile is full, earthy and powerful, with a sweet intense cacao taste and notes reminiscent of rum and tobacco. If you want to know exactly what is in it, take a look at the ingredients list on the packaging.

This is a dark chocolate with 70 percent cacao. The bar weighs 80 grams.

At 70 percent cacao the bar is clearly dark and full in flavour, but less severely bitter than a bar with a higher cacao percentage.

Store this bar cool, dry and dark, preferably at around 15 to 18 degrees and tightly closed.

Do not put chocolate in the fridge. The cold and the moisture can make the chocolate bloom, which leaves a grey haze on the bar and makes the texture less fine.

Bean-to-bar means that Krak Chocolade handles the entire process itself, from cocoa bean to bar. Mark Schimmel selects the cocoa beans by harvest year and by origin, and roasts and refines the chocolate himself.

Most chocolatiers and pastry chefs work with melted industrial chocolate. Because Krak keeps every step in its own hands, you get flavours that you will not find in a supermarket bar.