If Mint Chocolate Chip is, or ever was, one of your favorite ice cream flavors, we think you'll love our Mint Chocolate Chip chocolate bar. Inspired by that childhood classic ice cream favorite, we created a chocolate bar with that same bright and fresh peppermint flavor with bits of chocolatey crunch.
Rather than using mint-flavored oils, we grind organic peppermint leaves into a fine powder which we then add into our stone chocolate grinders as the chocolate is liquifying so that the chocolate is fully infused with real peppermint. After pouring the chocolate into our chocolate bar molds, we hand sprinkle the back of each bar with toasted cocoa nibs—an adult take on chocolate chips—for that bit of crunchy texture.
Direct-sourced from Cacao Bisiesto, a boutique cacao company that purchases beans from surrounding small-holder farmers in the highlands of Nicaragua in order to centrally ferment, dry and internationally market these fine flavor beans.
Nicaraguan Cacao, Organic Cane Sugar, Organic Cocoa Butter, Organic Peppermint Leaf
Inspired by local chocolate makers in Costa Rica, Elaine & Matt flew back to Atlanta with bags packed full of Costa Rican cacao and spent the next year developing recipes, refining technique and reaching out to source raw cacao from different origins to highlight the ranging diversity of flavor naturally inherent in fine cacao. By late 2014, they opened a small micro-factory and retail store at the Krog Street Market and quickly became Atlanta's bean-to-bar craft chocolate company.
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