• Ecuadorian Bliss – 100% Ceremonial Cacao
  • Ecuadorian Bliss – 100% Ceremonial Cacao
  • Ecuadorian Bliss – 100% Ceremonial Cacao

Ecuadorian Bliss – 100% Ceremonial Cacao

100% cacao. Nothing else in the bag.

Single-origin Arriba Nacional from a collective of small farms in Ecuador, stone-ground into a paste with all of its cacao butter still in it. Hand-ground into nibs, so you can scoop and melt without chopping a block.

No sugar, no fillers, nothing taken out. Every batch tested for heavy metals, and lab results are available on request.

Long before it was a candy bar, chocolate was a fruit on a tree in Ecuador. This is the closest you can get to it.

How to drink it: 2 to 3 tbsp into 6 to 8 oz of hot milk or water. Blend until it froths. Sweeten with honey or maple if you like. Do not boil it.

Net Weight: 10 oz (283g)
Sale price $39.99 Regular price
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Blake in a standing yoga balance on a rock in the rainforest

We drank it for years before we sold it

That is Blake, somewhere in cacao country. We are two yoga teachers who found ceremonial cacao long before Holy Cacao existed. It became the thing we opened a class with, sat with friends over, and reached for instead of a second coffee.

Selling it came later, and only because people kept asking where to get it.

Our story
A ripe red cacao pod on the tree, held in a hand

It starts as a fruit

Cacao grows in a pod on a tree. Inside are the beans, wrapped in a sweet white pulp. Most chocolate takes those beans and presses the fat out of them. We never do.

Ecuadorian Bliss is Arriba Nacional from a collective of small farms in Ecuador, fermented, dried and stone-ground whole, with all of its cacao butter still in it. Nothing pressed out, nothing added. Every batch is tested for heavy metals, and the lab results are yours for the asking.

Why people drink it

Because the cacao butter is left in, you get the whole bean, not a stripped-down version of it.

Steady energy

Theobromine and a little caffeine. A gentle lift that lasts, without the spike and crash of coffee.

Minerals

A good source of magnesium, iron and potassium, because nothing has been taken out.

Antioxidants

Cacao is rich in flavonoids. Whole, unalkalized cacao keeps more of them than cocoa powder.

Focus and calm

Most people describe feeling clear and settled, not wired. It is why we open a class with it.

This is what works for us and what our customers tell us. It is food, not medicine.

Broken chunks of stone-ground ceremonial cacao paste on a wooden board

What is in the bag

100% cacao and nothing else. The paste is broken into nibs so you can scoop and melt it without chopping a block.

To drink it: 2 to 3 tablespoons into 6 to 8 oz of hot milk or water. Blend until it froths. Sweeten with honey or maple if you like. Do not boil it.

10 oz (283g). About 12 cups.