The perfect activity for your coworkers, family, or friends. Choose from one of our experiences below or work with our team to customize one for your event. We can host your group at our Brooklyn factory or bring one of our unqiue chocolate experiences to you!
The perfect activity for your coworkers, family, or friends. Choose from one of our experiences below or work with our team to customize one for your event. We can host your group at our Brooklyn factory or bring one of our unqiue chocolate experiences to you!
Unroasted & Uncommonly Delicious
We make unroasted dark chocolate from scratch, with traceable, high quality, and transparently traded single origin cacao, crafted into something uncommonly delicious.
Cacao beans are the seeds of the cacao fruit, harvested and prepared by producers at origin. Every bean has a flavor profile shaped by the soil and climate it grows in, as well as the care each producer takes in cultivating and processing it.
This fruity flavor is often roasted away in favor of that classic chocolatey note. We love this fruit-forward flavor, and we make our chocolate without roasting so you can enjoy it too.
Chocolate starts with a fruit.
Cacao beans are fruit seeds. Theobroma cacao is a fruit tree that bears heavy, football-shaped pods, full of lemony, sweet pulp and about forty to sixty seeds. These seeds are harvested by hand and referred to as “wet cacao” since they’re coated in the pulp.
This pulp is about ninety percent water and ten percent sugar, making it the perfect food for microbes, which leads to the first step in the post-harvest process: fermentation!
Fermentation brings out the flavor
The wet cacao is fermented in wooden boxes covered with banana leaves for four to seven days depending on the origin and the producer.
While it’s the pulp that is fermented, and not the cacao seeds themselves, the seeds are subjected to the effects of fermentation like high temperatures and the creation of ethanol and acetic acid, deactivating the germ and developing flavor and aroma precursors. What this means is that it tastes a whole lot better than before.
When you eat chocolate, you’re almost always eating cacao beans that have been through the fermentation process. This is why we don’t refer to our chocolate as raw: reactions during the fermentation process generate heat, bringing the temperature of the pile up to around 120°F.
Without this process, cacao won’t properly develop the flavors and aromas that are so vital to the chocolate experience. At Raaka, our focus is on the flavors of the fermentation profile.
Whilst cooking itself is not especially hard, it does take time to hone your culinary skills. And even then, things go wrong. But, if you’re only cooking for yourself, who cares if your veg isn’t chopped perfectly, or your souffle doesn’t rise quite as it should. The important thing is what t...
A British Favorite - Chicken Tikka Masala class is offered by Ayesha's Kitchen. Ayesha's Kitchen offers so much more than just the know-how of how to put together a delicious Indian meal, it takes you on a mystical journey through the legacy of authentic Indian traditional cuisine
Halloween Cooking & Craft class is offered by AJ's Kitchen Drawer. On top of trying out our beautiful products, you will enjoy a full meal made with your own hands. Our experienced professionals will walk you through dishes you had never heard of before or believed you could ever make.
An American Chef course is offered by The Chef Apprentice School of the Arts. Our experience is rooted in the belief that you should never have to go into soul-crushing debt and learn in crowded classrooms with no access to the industry you want to work in upon graduation.
For Employers Cooking Class is offered by Lauren Chandler Cooks. Classes are a fun and engaging team building experience where people learn to cook amazing food that supports their physical and mental health. (And of course, planetary health!)
© 2024 coursetakers.com All Rights Reserved. Terms and Conditions of use | Privacy Policy