While we were in Chicago, C gave me a li’l box of treasure from Sahagun, the Portland OR chocolatier. I have been sampling it, enjoying a chocolate covered meyer lemon peel (swoon) and a salty peanut bark, but today I went for the bit I’d been saving: Ka-Pow, the not-a-chocolate made from coffee beans plus cocoa butter and sugar.
Dayum.
It’s a little gritty, with the texture of fine coffee grounds, but it’s got the melting loveliness of the cocoa fats, and just the barest hint of sweetness to temper the bitter. And the two tiny squares I ate packed enough of a wallop to get me through both an annoying conference call and the post-carb lag of a spaghetti lunch.
Completely awesome, in both the sensory experience it provides and in the sheer coolness of its concept. Huzzah, and big thanks to C!