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It seems strange to think you can drink hot cocoa anytime of year, not just the cool months. Cocoa/cacao is an anytime of year drink with many health benefits. Most people relegate cocoa/cacao as a winter drink enjoyed around the cold weather holidays to snuggle down and watch a movie or 3. I’d like to give you a different perspective of hot cocoa/cacao. Let me clarify that I am not talking about hot chocolate; to read the difference between hot chocolate and hot cocoa/cacao go to my blog @ https://www.sweethotcocoa.com/blog for the article titled “hot chocolate vs. hot cacao/cocoa”

Now back to hot cocoa/cacao… see hot cocoa/cacao is a powdered mix that can be taken anywhere, You simply throw it into your bag as you head out the door for work or gym or backpack for that early morning exam you have on the other side of campus. Simply heat up whatever milk you desire. Anything from heavy cream to milk alternative can be used. Put it in your favorite to-go travel mug so it’s ready to enjoy. We have developed a coffee flavored hot cocoa/cacao in white chocolate, milk chocolate, dark chocolate, and even our midnight chocolate. We call it Coffee Espresso hot cocoa/cacao, it is great to wake you up and get you across campus in a flash. Our Hot cocoa/cacao is good for that early morning hike beverage. You can easily put it in your camping supplies for relaxing morning wake ups or evenings in front of a fire with friends. This is a great alternative for people who do not drink coffee or tea but would like something warm on those cool mornings or evenings anytime of year. It is also seen as an extra sweet treat for kids. Just throw in a marshmallow or ten and you’re all set. The best part our hot cacao/cocoa is that it has an all natural sugar blend of healthy sugars. It does not contain sugar in the raw, palm sugar, cane sugar, brown sugar, beet sugar, fructose, coconut sugar, maple sugar, molasses, Stevia or Date sugar. It is all natural and healthy. Our formulation does not spike blood sugar. We even have a sugar free option that tastes amazing. If you are a coffee drinker, most of our hot cocoa/cacao can be used as a coffee creamer, so add it to plain coffee with a splash of milk or milk alternative and it will give your taste buds a real treat.

We took 3 years developing our cocoa to be a one of a kind product. Healthy, ecologically sourced, and tastes amazing without all the additives like other commercial brands have. The health benefits of cocoa, which I covered in my blog @ https://www.sweethotcocoa.com/blog is titled “The health benefits of cacao powders”. We spent the time to develop sixty unique flavors and 20 cacao sugar free flavors for a total of 80 flavors to choose from. We have unique flavors like Blueberry, Orange milk chocolate, Thai peanut dark chocolate (spicy), pumpkin spice, and our best sellers Raspberry and Eggnog. We also have 20 flavors of cacao like Lavender in both dark and regular cacao, coffee espresso in both dark and regular, Orange in both dark and regular cacao, raspberry in both dark and regular cacao, just to name a few.

Did you know there was a difference between hot chocolate and hot cocoa? There is! I know it blew my mind too. Let me explain.

Hot chocolate and hot cocoa are different drinks that are widely preferred by people around the globe. In many countries, the terms ‘hot chocolate’ and ‘hot cocoa’ are used differently to label two different drinks. But in the US, the two terms are used interchangeably so often that it probably seems like there is hardly a difference cited between the two, but there is.

For a “lighter chocolaty taste” for lack of better words, hot cocoa is prepared by using cacao powders. This comes is several styles as well, Basic processed cocoa powder, the cocoa powder is not sweetened, and usually has sugars, powdered milk and additives blended into it, then you just add water. Then you have natural cacao powder, with health benefits that the cocoa powder does not have. This can be bitter to taste, but the addition ofsweetener and a fattier milk can help with the taste. Some people do add milk alternative powder and use milk alternatives instead of using fattier milks, preparing the cacao powder either way gives it a creamier taste closer to hot chocolate, but still is lighter in taste. Finally, there is the Dutch processed powder which has a smoother taste to it from the added alkaline component which gives the cacao powder the darker color. This process is the healthiest and has the most health benefits to it. Adding cacao powder to warm milk turns this into a hot cocoa drink. Cacao and cocoa powders are created from pressed ground cacao beans. When making cocoa powder, the fat, which is also called cocoa butter, is removed from it and is heavily processed but the chocolate taste remains. Cacao Powders are normally ground, pressed to the degree of fat remaining needed for a specific cacao powder, then allowed to dry and then powdered. But again in the Dutch processing the alkaline is added to the cacao powder to give it that smoother taste.

It has been known that hot chocolate was developed many centuries before hot cocoa. It is said that the origins of this chocolate drink was developed in Central America. When comparing the two, hot chocolate comes with a high fat, high sugar content and has a low cocoa content. In some of the popular brands there is no cocoa powder at all in their mix, just chocolate flavoring. But cocoa powders are different when turned into hot cacao drinks. They are better for your health as it comes with a low sugar and low fat content. Hot cacao also is a potent antioxidant beverage when compared to hot chocolate, but still it is lighter in taste. Finally, there is the Dutch processed powder which has a smoother taste to it from the added alkaline component which gives the cacao powder the darker color. This process is the healthiest and has the most health benefits to it. Adding cacao powder to warm milk turns this into a hot cocoa drink. Cacao and cocoa powders are created from pressed ground cacao beans. When making cocoa powder, the fat, which is also called cocoa butter, is removed from it and is heavily processed but the chocolate taste remains. Cacao Powders are normally ground, pressed to the degree of fat remaining needed for a specific cacao powder, then allowed to dry and then powdered. But again in the Dutch processing the alkaline is added to the cacao powder to give it that smoother taste.

History of Chocolate/ Cocoa you can also find health benefits of cacao at our website https://www.sweethotcocoa.com/blog

Cocoa and other chocolate products are enjoyed by billions of people around the globe, but surprisingly few people know the history of the confection. In fact, cocoa has appeared in different cultures worldwide for hundreds of years. Cocoa was first developed as a crop in many ancient South American cultures, with the Aztecs and Mayans being the most well-known of these indigenous populations. Researchers have found evidence of cocoa-based food dating back several thousand years.

The modern word “chocolate” stems from two words in Nahuatl, the language spoken by many native groups: chocolatl, which translated literally means “hot water,” and cacahuatl, which referred to a bitter beverage made with cocoa that was shared during religious ceremonies. The history of the cacao bean was so significant to the local cultures that it was used as a currency in trade, given to warriors as a post-battle reward, and served at royal feasts.

For these civilizations, cocoa was a symbol of abundance. It was used in religious rituals dedicated to Quetzalcoatl, the Aztec god responsible for bringing the cocoa tree to man, to Chak ek Chuah, the Mayan patron saint of cocoa, and as an offering at the funerals of noblemen.

When the Spanish Conquistadors arrived in the New World and began the process of invading, colonizing, and ultimately destroying the native cultures, they also discovered the value of the local cacao crop. However, they brought their own innovation to the appropriated drink, with the addition of sugar and spices to sweeten the bitter cocoa. After that point, chocolate became wildly popular amongst the Spanish, who kept the production method a secret from other Europeans for almost 100 years after their discovery.

The Spanish could not hold onto their secret forever, and chocolate quickly spread across the rest of western Europe. Chocolate then still exclusively in the form of a drink appeared in France, and then England, in royal courts and special “chocolate houses” that served the social elite. Hot chocolate was hailed by the upper classes as both delicious and healthy, and cocoa ultimately gained the reputation of being an aphrodisiac.

Chocolate has a long and fascinating past, as delicious as its taste. From 1500 BC to 400 BC the Olmec Indians are believed to be the first to grow cocoa beans as a domestic crop. From 250 to 900 CE the consumption of cocoa beans was restricted to the Mayan society's elite, in the form of an unsweetened cocoa drink made from the ground beans. In 600 AD Mayans migrate into northern regions of South America establishing earliest known cocoa plantations in the Yucatan.

In the 14th Century the drink became popular among the Aztec upper classes who usurped the cocoa beverage from the Mayans and were the first to tax the beans. The Aztecs called it "xocalatl" meaning warm or bitter liquid. By 1502 Columbus encountered a great Mayan trading canoe in Guanaja carrying cocoa beans as cargo. Then in 1519 Spanish explorer Hernando Cortez recorded the cocoa usage in the court of Emperor Montezuma. 1544 Dominican friars took a delegation of Kekchi Mayan nobles to visit Prince Philip of Spain. The Mayans brought gift jars of beaten cocoa, mixed and ready to drink. Spain and Portugal did not export the beloved drink to the rest of Europe for nearly a century.

Hot chocolate was hailed by the upper classes as both delicious and healthy, and cocoa ultimately gained the reputation of being an aphrodisiac. But the exclusivity of chocolate was ultimately diminished by the onset of the Industrial Revolution, when steam-powered machines made the production of cocoa powder significantly quicker and more affordable. Solid chocolate hit the market and found wild success by 1850, due to the discovery by Joseph Fry that adding cacao butter to the cocoa powder formed a solid mass.

16th century Europe, Spanish began to add cane sugar and flavorings such as vanilla to their sweet cocoa beverages. In 1570 cocoa gained popularity as a medicine and aphrodisiac. In 1585 the first official shipments of cocoa beans began arriving in Seville from Vera Cruz, Mexico. The first chocolate house was opened in London by a Frenchman in 1657. The shop was called The Coffee Mill and Tobacco Roll. Costing 10 to 15 shillings per pound, chocolate was considered a beverage for the elite class. By 1674 eating solid chocolate was introduced in the form of chocolate rolls and cakes served in chocolate emporiums.⠀

Cocoa beans had dropped in price from $3 per pound in 1730 to a price within the financial reach of others. By 1732 French inventor, Monsieur Dubuisson invented a table mill for grinding cocoa beans.⠀ Then in 1753 Swedish naturalist, Carolus Linnaeus was dissatisfied with the word "cocoa," so it was renamed to "Theobroma," Greek for "food of the gods." In 1765 chocolate was introduced to the United States when Irish chocolate maker John Hanan imported cocoa beans from the West Indies into Dorchester, Massachusetts, to refine them with the help of American Dr. James Baker. The pair soon after built America's first chocolate mill and by 1780, the mill was making the famous BAKER'S ® chocolate baking bars. In 1795 Dr. Joseph Fry of Bristol, England, employed a steam engine for grinding cocoa beans, an invention that led to the manufacture of chocolate on a large factory scale.⠀

1800: Antoine Brutus Menier built the first industrial manufacturing facility for chocolate. Sixty years later, the art of creating chocolate confections with flavored filling, referred to as pralines was born. A Belgian inventor, Jean Neuhaus II also went public with a chocolate product. From there, the chocolate and cocoa industry exploded in popularity and quickly spread around the world. By 1819: The pioneer of Swiss chocolate-making, François Louis Callier, opened the first Swiss chocolate factory.⠀

In 1828 the invention of the cocoa press, by Conrad Van Houten, helped cut prices and improve the quality of chocolate by squeezing out some of the cocoa butter and giving the beverage a smoother consistency. Conrad Van Houten patented his invention in Amsterdam and his alkalizing process became known as "Dutching". Several years earlier, Van Houten was the first to add alkaline salts to powdered cocoa to make it mix better with water.⠀

A form of solid eating chocolate was developed in 1830 by Joseph Fry & Sons, a British chocolate maker. Then by 1847 Joseph Fry & Sons discovered a way to mix some of the cocoa butter back into the "Dutched" chocolate, by added sugar and creating a paste that could be molded. The result was the first modern chocolate bar.

By 1849 Joseph Fry & Sons and Cadbury Brothers displayed chocolates for eating at an exhibition in Bingley Hall, in Birmingham, England. The Prince Albert's Exposition in 1851 London was the first time that Americans were introduced to bonbons, chocolate creams, hand candies (called "boiled sweets"), and caramels. By 1861 Richard Cadbury created the first known heart-shaped candy box for Valentine's Day.⠀

1868 John Cadbury mass-marketed the first boxes of chocolate candies. Daniel Peter of Vevey, Switzerland, in 1876 experimented for eight years before finally inventing a means of making milk chocolate for eating.

1879 Daniel Peter and Henri Nestlé joined together to form the Nestlé Company. Also in the same year Rodolphe Lindt of Berne, Switzerland, produced smoother and creamier chocolate that melted on the tongue. He invented the "conching" machine. To conch, meant to heat and roll chocolate in order to refine it. After chocolate had been conched for seventy-two hours and had more cocoa butter added to it, it was possible to create chocolate "fondant" and other creamy forms of chocolate.⠀

1897 the first known published recipe for chocolate brownies appeared in the Sears and Roebuck Catalogue. Canadian, Arthur Ganong marketed the first nickel chocolate bar in 1910. William Cadbury urged several English and American companies to join him in refusing to buy cacao beans from plantations with poor labor conditions. Then in 1913 Swiss confectioner Jules Sechaud of Montreux introduced a machine process for manufacturing filled chocolates. Then Belgian chocolatier, Joseph Draps in 1926 starts the Godiva Company to compete with Hershey's and Nestle's American market.

Throughout its long evolution, one factor has remained cocoa has attracted devotees worldwide. Today, over 4.5 million tons of cocoa beans are consumed annually around the globe, in everything from drinks to candy bars

It’s safe to say that the ancient Mesoamericans who pioneered the crop could never have imagined the popularity cocoa would someday experience. Cocoa sustainability was and is very important to the sustainability movement to help secure the future of chocolate and ensure that it’s available for generations to come, it’s essential that sustainable farming practices and ethical means of production are implemented in the cocoa supply chain. The World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) has teamed up with over 100 large companies around the world to make the cocoa supply chain more sustainable.

We would like to give special thanks to World Cocoa Foundation and Thought Co. for the information they provided, so we may help inform further generations of hot cocoa lovers on the History of Cocoa⠀

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Candy Cane Tin full of Hot Chocolate Mix

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This candy cane tin gift set comes with a 6 oz. cocoa mix, 2 oz. of chocolate chips, 1 oz. marshmallow bites and 4 chocolate pieces. This sweet gift set is great for any hot chocolate lover. The difference and taste is Amazing!

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