Okapi 65

Available in 2.5kg
An intense herbaceous dark chocolate, with flavours of spices & dried fruits.

Applications

Pastries • Desserts • Ice cream • Pralines • Ganache • Cakes

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Cocoa Solids

Average fat

Viscosity

Fluid
Thick
This flavourful and versatile chocolate gives a warm feeling, especially combined with spices like cinnamon, clove and pepper. Combinations with red fruits like raspberry and black currants nicely lift up the acidity.
Peter Remmelzwaal
Owner of PR Patisserie

Flavour Details

Product details

A powerfully dynamic chocolate, starting with an intense cocoa flavour, with roasted, earthy, tobacco notes and a good clean bitterness. Moving to suggestions of black pepper, delicate orange, raisin and dried fruit flavours, it evolves beautifully into a herbal veggie finish, with a quiet farewell of honeylike sweetness. Once tasted, never forgotten.

Tempering curves

Type
Belgian dark chocolate dots
Packaging
Resealable
Weight
2.5kg
Best before
24 months
The Cocoa Okapi Cooperative

Genetics:

Forastero, Trinitario Hybrids

Other Crops:

Plantain, coffee, rubber, vegetables

Terroir:

Tropical Rainforest - Savannah 2,000 m altitude

Fermentation & Drying Process

D.R. Congo

Box fermentation in micro-center

– Ideal for small farmers
– Enhances specific flavors

Pre-drying

– Longer duration > extension of fermentation in lower T (no further acetate production)
– Further color development
– Increased fissuring > Balanced profiles and increased cur test
– Reduced risk for early case hardening under local circumstances

Drying

– Clean appearance
– Easier separation of husk
– Reduced acidity
– Slower speed for moisture reduction -> no risk for case hardening

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