Theo & Philo Unsweetened Chocolate

TAST­ING NOTES FROM THE CURATOR

Theo & Phi­lo Unsweet­ened Choco­late is made from sin­gle ori­gin Philip­pine choco­late, grat­ed into a pow­der with­out remov­ing any of the cocoa but­ter. Which makes for easy melt­ing and convenience.

This arti­san offer­ing smells absolute­ly amaz­ing. Fill­ing your nos­trils with the scent of pure choco­late, it’s like being enveloped in a warm blan­ket. It also has an incred­i­bly rich and full fla­vor, and will ele­vate any­thing you make with it.

PREPA­RA­TION AND PAIRINGS

Made with pure cacao and no addi­tives, this cocoa pow­der is veg­an, gluten-free, and very versatile.

Use it to make hot choco­lates, shakes, or even cold choco­late milk. Use it for bak­ing! Lev­el up your brown­ies, cup­cakes, cakes, and truf­fles with this arti­san cocoa powder.

PROUD­LY PINOY

Theo & Phi­lo is a com­pa­ny that cares. From their ingre­di­ents to their advo­ca­cies, you can be assured that sup­port­ing the com­pa­ny means sup­port­ing the Filipino.

They make sin­gle ori­gin bean to bar choco­lates, mean­ing all the cacao beans used to make their prod­ucts come from the Philip­pines, and the Philip­pines only. They work with a Gawad Kalin­ga (GK) farm­ing com­mu­ni­ty in Mal­abog, Davao, where they buy the beans direct­ly from the farm­ers. They also spon­sor schol­ar­ships for the GK com­mu­ni­ty, and give edu­ca­tion­al trans­porta­tion allowance to the farm­ers’ chil­dren so they could go to school regularly.

All their employ­ees are Fil­ipino, and the sug­ars that they use in their choco­lates come from the sug­ar­canes of Bacolod.

Storage Instructions

Store your choco­late pow­der in a cool, dark place, ide­al­ly between 18 to 24°C. You can use the refrig­er­a­tor, but place the choco­late in an air­tight con­tain­er to keep the mois­ture and humid­i­ty out — and retain its full range of fla­vors, of course!