Then water and various oils — palm oil, coconut oil, palm kernel oil (including shea butter and
cocoa pod powder)-- are added to the mixture and stirred for at least a day.
Not exact matches
The dried
pods are then
powdered into carob
powder which can be easily substituted for
cocoa but is more expensive and available at select health stores.
The cream mixture can also be flavored, often with a vanilla
pod, sometimes with fruit or fruit juice, but you could also experiment with tea,
cocoa powder, and different spices or extracts — not very traditional but also very good.
Add your vanilla
powder /
pod / paste, the salt and the
cocoa or cacao.
Available in a
powder (similar to
cocoa) and in bar or chip form, carob is made from the naturally sweet pulp from the
pods of a Mediterranean evergreen.
Workers extract the seeds (often called beans) from football - shaped
pods and then ferment and dry them to form
cocoa liquor, butter and
powder.
It's not super common so I can understand you not having heard of it - but yes, I'd say you are missing out;) Carob
pods give carob
powder that is similar to
cocoa powder, but carob is lower in fat and doesn't have caffeine when compared to
cocoa.
Although some people chew carob fruit as a sweetmeat, its
pods are also processed to make flour that is similar to
cocoa powder, which you can use to make a beverage similar to chocolate milk or hot
cocoa.
By the way, cacao refers to the name of the chocolate tree, (Theobroma cacao), its
pods and the beans inside, whereas
cocoa refers to the by - products of the cacao bean — the
cocoa powder and
cocoa butter.
Cacao nibs are raw pieces of the
cocoa pod, so they provide many of the same antioxidant, neurotransmitter, and mineral (magnesium) benefits of regular cacao
powder, while adding a wonderful textural crunch to these bars.