At Blacker Hall Farm near Wakefield, Helen Bramley is the owner of Chox, a luxury handmade chocolate brand. She said the ...

At the moment, the fermentation process is largely uncontrolled and spontaneous: it's left to happen naturally, in other ...

Bitter cacao nibs and bleeding hands: My 10-day chocolate-making nightmare Here's how to make chocolate from a cacao pod in your home kitchen— and why it isn't worth it ...

From hints of citrus to caramel, premium chocolate’s complex flavors derive from fermenting microbes on cocoa bean farms—and ...

This easy chocolate tiramisu is pure bliss for chocolate lovers! It's made with coffee-soaked ladyfingers layered with a luscious chocolate mascarpone cream that blends rich cocoa powder and smooth ...

Rowan Jacobsen manifested his next culinary deep dive when he got his hands on a chocolate bar made by a Swiss chocolatier from cacao grown in the Bolivian Amazon.

But cacao fruit is a superfood that contains additional, valuable ingredients that have been largely underutilized until now — in producing conventional chocolate, the industry wastes 70 percent of ...

Making chocolate wastes most of the cacao plant. Are you ready to try the whole cacao fruit?

Chocolate is the treat and baking ingredient, while both cacao and cocoa refer to the fruit and plant it comes from. In the United States, “cocoa” is used in recipes or to describe hot chocolate.

Gardeners who love chocolate may want to grow cacao and make their own chocolate. Cacao trees grow well here in Hawaii and with room for a small tree where it can have a shady overstory, it’s ...