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The shop [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], open for ten years also sells marzipan, nougats, hard-candies, caramels and more sourced from France, Italy, Belgium and confections from small artisanal producers from around the US. Hours are roughly 10-6, Sunday by chance, but if the spirit moves him, Hayward may lock the door and take off.
Kakawa also offers a selection of hand-rolled, hand-dipped truffles made in-house. There are five top-sellers that are always in the display-case and about fifteen more on rotation. They also sell elixirs to go. All the ingredients are added and made into solid wafers. Customers can recreate these unusual drinks at home. Kakawa also offers a selection of flour-free and gluten-free pastries, including flourless chocolate cake and decadent brownies also sweetened with honey and agave.
Kakawa offers twenty-five elixirs [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], about evenly split between pre-Columbian and European recipes. The Mesoamerican-style is infused with native herbs or their modern equivalents, mostly made with water and mostly unsweetened. The European varieties are use sweeteners. Kakawa avoids sugar, substituting honey and agave syrup
Probably the most unique chocolatier in town is Kakawa Chocolate House on Paseo de Peralta in the historic area of town. Their name comes from the Aztec word for chocolate. The shop is dedicated to the ancient art of chocolate.
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Theobroma cacao [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the plant that gives us the chocolate bean is indigenous to Mexico and Central America. The peoples of Mexico and Central American were consuming chocolate millennia ago. They considered it sacred, using it for drinks (elixirs) that were consumed by the upper classes. It was believed that chocolate had extraordinary powers; that bestowed health and wisdom. It was also thought to be an aphrodisiac. The conquering Europeans brought this gift home and European-style concoctions were born.
Theobroma means “Food of the Gods”, some would say it’s aptly named. Santa Fe has four small chocolatiers each with a unique take on this heavenly treat. When you taste their creations, it is clear that they all have one thing in common, a love of this magical bean. Recently, they have banded together to promote the Santa Fe chocolate industry and each other with a campaign called The Santa Fe Chocolate Trail.
Walking into Todos Santos, a minute shop tucked into a corner of the courtyard in historic Sena Plaza a block from the Plaza, feels like you have gone south of the border. The décor is funky Mexican from the Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) heads to the Mexican cut paper decorations to the flowering over-head branches dripping with kitsch for sale. Owner Hayward Simoneaux got into the chocolate business via an unusual hobby, he collected vintage chocolate molds. He decided he wanted to know how to use them and took a course in making molded chocolates. He incorporated the gold and silver leaf technique he learned as a picture-framer and started making edible gold and silver leaf covered milagros (Mexican symbols used by people praying for miracles). The toffees, a signature chocolate bar and nut clusters are also made in-house
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