Cocoa nibs from Colombia

Cocoa nibs from Colombia

The Hacienda Betulia farm is located east of the city of Medellin. The Federacion nacional de cacaoteros awarded the Swiss-Colombian family business as the most innovative farm in Colombia 2018. As a family business, there are years of tinkering behind the company's story. This has allowed them to create a great vision. The company's philisophy is to realize a Colombian Criollo with rare and complex flavors. As the most innovative farm in Colombia, sustainability and a great know-how are part of the daily routine. To achieve this title, the family business carries out scientific soil analysis and genetic testing of the cacao varieties. Sustainability is expressed in the agricultural practices and extends to the fermentation concept.
These cocoa beans belong to the Criollo category. These beans are among the finest of their variety and taste particularly aromatic.

Cocoa nibs have numerous applications

With various other ingredients, the cocoa nibs are finely grinded and finally mixed in the Melangeur processed. You can learn more about the processing in our Bean-to-Bar courses. The cocoa nibs can of course also be used as an ingredient for other treats.

For delicious and crunchy chocolates you need some hollow praline balls or shells, a piping bag, some almond filling and couverture. Whip the almond filling until fluffy, mix in the cocoa nibs, place the mixture in the piping bag and cut off the tip. This way, the cream can be piped directly into the hollow spheres or praline shells. You can also mix the cream in advance with a little chocolate ganache, this way you get a less intense, creamy almond crunchy ganache. Finally, seal the pralines with some tempered couverture and decorate or coat as desired with sprinkles, sprinkles or, of course, cocoa nibs.

If you want to add a fine crunch to éclairs, macarons or a cake, add some cocoa nibs to your cream. For example, a simple vanilla or chocolate mousse is suitable for éclairs, while buttercream or ganache is a good choice for macarons. For a delicious cake filling, you can also make a vanilla cream or, for example, a yogurt or quark mixture and mix it with the cocoa nibs.

For an extra crunchy chocolate bar, mix your tempered couverture with the cocoa nibs. Pour the mixture into a chocolate bar mold or onto baking paper. After a few minutes in the refrigerator, you can unmold the chocolate and cut or break it into pieces as desired.

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The cocoa bean is harvested laboriously by various farmers around the world still by hand and from then on the cocoa bean has a long way until the bean becomes chocolate. This is exactly the knowledge that our Bean to Bar course teaches. The production from the bean to the finished chocolate bar is a great experience. Would you like to get to know this great way together with us? Then you are in the Bean to bar just right? We are looking forward to your registration