Customer Reviews

Ecuadorian Truly Raw Cacao Butter, 16oz - Pacari Chocolate

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I make my own dark chocolate candy. I combine cacao butter (1#) with 5 TBSP of organic raw chocolate powder and 4 tsp of stevia in a glass double boiler. When all is liquified, I pour the mixture into chocolate candy molds (1 TBSP per mold). I then place in the freezer for 1 hour. When the candies are hard, I remove from the mold, put in a covered bowl and store in the frig. Each candy is about 100 calories with zero net carbs! Yummmmmmy!

It is so easy to make Raw chocolate candy with this raw cacao butter. It melts so easily. Just shave it with a cheese grater, then place it in a bowl and put it in your food dehydrator. Or, if you dont have one, turn on your oven (don't put the cacao butter inside the oven-defeats the purpose of it being raw), but place the shaved cacao on top of the stove. The heat from the stove will do the trick. The butter will remain raw as long as you don't let its temperature rise above 118 degrees. You could even put the cacao in a glass bowl then place the bowl in very hot (not boiling) water. It melts quickly, just stir often. An added bonus...it smells sooo good. I tasted it plain too...no flavor, just smooth as silk.

When I pulled the product out of the package, I looked on the bottom and noticed that the expiration date was blacked out by very dark black marker and then a new one put on with a sticker next to it. That makes me very distrustful and I wonder what was blacked out. Hopefully the product is okay, but I am going to look for a different source for cacao butter in the future.

I originally bought this product for mixing up raw food desserts. After getting it onto my hands a few times, I noticed how soft it made my skin. I now use it a few times a week as a moisturizer. Makes my skin smell wonderful and feel amazingly soft, and gives me a natural glow! I think it's almost time to re-order as Winter is quickly approaching and I want to maintain great skin!

To say the least the picture of the "white chunks" of cocoa butter are nothing like what I received. What I received was a 1# block of lite chocolate milk colored cocoa butter. I don't mind the single block at all, its the color I am discouraged with. I wanted to make vegan white chocolate and this just isn't going to work at all. I will have to use it for other dark chocolate things. I will have to try again with another company....bummer.

This cocoa butter is very nice. It was broken up into chunks in a variety of sizes, which is good for measuring out different amounts. Very firm, good strong chocolate smell, melts well, provided a pleasant crunch to the chocolate coating on my cake pops. :-) We had a little problem on the shipping -- the original shipment was damaged and returned to the warehouse and another shipment had to be sent out to me. The person I dealt with was very polite and understanding and once we figured out what had happened, I got my second shipment relatively quickly.

The product was o.k., but it was shipped in a mailing envelope as opposed to a box. Needless to say, when it arrived it was broken into several pieces and didn't look like the picture of the product. We used it anyway, but disappointing to look at.