Name: Cocoa Tea
Yield: Serves: 16 2 cups Mix
Ingredients: 2 cups dark unsweetened Valrhona chocolate powder; or 2 (4-ounce) Valrhona Gran Couva, finely chopped; ¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg; 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon; ⅛ teaspoon ground bay leaf; 1 cup boiling water; Sweetened condensed milk to taste, or regular milk and heavy cream to taste; ¼ teaspoon ground ginger; 2 tablespoons cocoa mix; 1 drop vanilla extract

Preparation info

Serves:
16
2 cups Mix

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Sweet Hands

By Ramin Ganeshram

Published 2018

About

Trinidadian chocolate is considered to be among the finest in the world, and large chocolate manufacturers from Europe buy the crop to flavor more widely produced but inferior chocolates from Africa and South America. Cocoa tea is made from “cocoa sticks,” which are 100 percent Trinidad cocoa beans ground into a paste with local spices. The sticks are then dried and grated into boiling water to create a “tea” that is then flavored with condensed milk. Because pure Trinidad chocolate is not