Chocolate Covered Cherries

Description

We start with organic dried tart cherries, then cover them with our Maybird “bean to bar” Costa Esmeraldas 65% dark chocolate. The natural fruitiness of this chocolate pairs perfectly with the slightly sweet, slightly tart cherries. The cherries are finished with a light dusting of cocoa powder. We have a hard time keeping these in stock; get them while they’re available!

We love our Costa Esmeraldas 65% dark chocolate and use it on most of our dark chocolate toffees, along with many of our other favorite confections. We buy cacao beans from the Costa Esmeraldas cacao farm in Ecuador, near the coast in the Province of Esmeraldas. The Salazar family has transformed 100 hectares of what was formerly cattle pasture into a thriving farm that produces premium cacao. The beans are grown without herbicides or pesticides, carefully fermented in tiered wooden boxes, dried, and hand-sorted before they head our way for turning into chocolate. After sorting (again), we roast the cacao beans to bring out the best flavor notes, then crack and winnow the beans to end up with the cacao nibs. We grind the nibs into chocolate, adding a little bit of cocoa butter and organic sugar to bring out the fruity flavors.