10 minutes, 2 cups
Hot chocolate with 100% cacao paste
A thick, lightly sweet cup made with pure cacao instead of a powdered mix. Whole milk gives the richest cup; oat or almond drink works just as well.
Recipes with Nicaraguan cacao
Simple drinks with our cacao paste, cacao powder and pinolillo: clear measures and short steps.
10 minutes, 1 cup
Ceremonial cacao: how to make it
Pure cacao and hot water, to sip slowly in the morning or before meditating. It is more intense than hot chocolate: no milk and little or no sugar.
5 minutes, 2 glasses
Iced pinolillo, the drink of Nicaragua
Pinolillo is toasted, ground corn with cacao. It is drunk cold, with water or milk, at any time of day. Ours is made with cacao beans from our own farm.