An eccentric entrepreneur with a mission to educate the British public in the delights of top quality chocolate, Willie Harcourt-Cooze, the star of Willie`s Wonky Chocolate Factory reveals how to use the ultimate luxury ingredient in a collection of 60 recipes. WILLIE`S CHOCOLATE FACTORY COOKBOOK tells the story of how Willie came to grow his own cacao beans in the Cloud Mountains of Venezuela and now turns it into his exquisite chocolate at his hand-built factory in Devon. An ingredient in its own right, Willie shows how much 100% cacao chocolate can enhance an astonishing range of sweet and savoury dishes from Cloud Forest Chocolate Cake and Black Beans and Arepas, to Venezuelan Hot Chocolate and Chicken Mole. With stunning photography and mouth-watering recipes, WILLIE`S CHOCOLATE FACTORY COOKBOOK is perfect for all food-lovers.

Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton (19 Mar 2009)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0340980516
ISBN-13: 978-0340980514
Product Dimensions: 24 x 18.2 x 3.4 cm

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We are thrilled to introduce a new product range – Venezuelan 72

Long Forgotten Flavours 72% Cocoa , in a flavoursome edible bar with smooth Fruity Notes

Selected from the finest cocoa regions in Venezuela, these beautiful beans are carefully roasted in Willie’s Chocolate factory in England using antique 100-year-old chocolate making machinery. The beans are then crafted into fine dark chocolate – made the way chocolate used to be ( maximum taste from minimum meddling). Venezuelan 72 unleashes long forgotten flavours, in two temping delicate and delectable squares. One for now … one for then.

Ingredients : Cocoa Mass , Cocoa Butter, Cuban Raw Cane Sugar

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Venezeulan Black

Back on Channel 4 at 8pm on April 7th to April 9th for some more choctastic adventures , Watch Raising the Bar: Willie’s Chocolate Revolution

Willie Harcourt-Cooze is back, continuing his mission to produce the finest chocolate in the world and to convert the public into eating the best quality confectionery. Having successfully set up his ‘wonky’ chocolate factory in Devon, Willie is about to take on the ‘big boys’ of the chocolate world and compete directly with the producers of the UK’s most popular treats, setting his sights on developing his own chocolate bar.

Britons spend more per head on chocolate than any other nation in Europe. However, few of us eat true authentic chocolate. Willie wants to re-educate the public about how chocolate should actually taste and develop a recipe for his own chocolate bar to compete in the market. Willie’s aim is to create a bar that is both delicious and affordable, but which doesn’t contain the excessive quantities of vegetable fat, sugar and additives that characterise most of the existing products that line supermarket shelves. Along the way Willie tries to recreate delicious home-made versions of popular chocolate bars and further investigate the health benefits of chocolate.

Will Willie get the funding and new equipment necessary to produce his new bar; can he persuade retailers to stock it; and will the public change their tastes? Can one individual, no matter how passionate, really hope to take on the chocolate giants and win?

We have been contacted by a few customers , asking the possibilities of supplying pure Cocoa Butter. Unfortunately due to the 100% Cocoa Bars using all the ingredients of the Cocoa Pod. We do cannot provide this as a product.

Cocoa Butter seems to be reviewed for removing stretch marks due to its highly concentrated natural fats. It also seems to be recommended for the treatment of skin conditions such as eczema and dermatitis. Recent research indicates that massaging the skin with cocoa butter may help relieve stress, boost the immune system, and even prevent cancer. This is because cocoa butter, like chocolate, contains a lot of CMP “Cocoa mass polyphenol” for the Heston Blumenthal types out there!

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A cup of cocoa a day may help to keep the doctor away.

A study by scientists in the United States has found that a cup of hot cocoa is rich in powerful antioxidants.
Previous studies have also shown these chemicals, which can protect against a range of diseases and reduce the effects of ageing, are found in cocoa.
However, this latest study suggests cocoa may be richer in antioxidants than better known “healthy” drinks like tea and red wine.

Health benefits

In recent years, a number of studies have highlighted the health properties of tea, red wine and cocoa.

A study in China, published in April last year, found tea drinkers were about half as likely to develop cancer compared with people who did not drink tea.

A cup or two of hot cocoa every once in a while can provide a delicious, warm and healthy way to obtain more antioxidants

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