Costa esmeraldas
3rd December 2021
For our first foray into fine flavour cocoa we chose Costa Esmeraldas beans from Ecuador. As soon as they arrived we could tell they were different to the beans we'd been using before. They smelled amazing before we'd even opened the package, and we were very excited to start making chocolate with them.
We ordered these beans from Solkiki, who are fabulous, friendly chocolate makers, and you can read more about how the beans are grown and processed on the Costa Esmeraldas website.
Made with these beans:
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Batch 11 - The Coffee Roaster
We went back to the 10% cocoa butter for this batch, so we used:...
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Batch 10 - Less cocoa butter
For the first time, we tried a different ratio. We stuck with 70% bars, but with only 5% cocoa butter instead of 10%....
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Batch 9 - A hotter roast
Again, we stuck with the 70% bars with 10% cocoa butter to compare with the previous bars:...
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Batch 8 - Exciting new beans
For our first batch with these new beans, we stuck with the 70% bars with 10% cocoa butter to compare with the previous bars:...