Filed under: Fair Grounds Newsletter: February 2009, Recipe of the Month | Tags: Cafe Campesino, Chocolate, Coffee, Coffee Club, Coffees, Espresso, Fair Trade, Fair Trade Chocolate, Green Coffee Beans, Jimmy Foglio, koinonia, Organic Coffee, Recipe, Recipe of the Month
Bean Bark Café
Just as I type this, my words and experience serve as evidence of the creative spin and intoxicating euphoria granted by this month’s feature recipe, a classic combination of chocolate and coffee with a Fair Trade angle.
What you’ll need:
- Fair Trade Bean Bark from Koinonia and Café Campesino
- Your favorite Fair Trade Café Campesino Coffee, brewed
- A saucer or small dish
The Method:
It’s quite simple. Place a chunk of your bean bark on the saucer. Take a bite. Next, enjoy a sip of coffee. Indulge as the chocolate dissolves and finds its way over the right taste buds. Continue to alternate the two as needed. The result will be a rush of clean flavors, a tantalizing finish, and a lingering caffeine buzz created by a marriage of Fair Trade products that will differ greatly from that of coffee alone.
I strongly recommend having a steady supply of bean bark on hand at all times throughout autumn!
This recipe serves approximately 10 people…
Ingredients
- 18 ounces white (Fair Trade if possible) chocolate chips
- 1/2 cup Cafe Campesino coffee beans
- melted semisweet Fair Trade chocolate, to drizzle (optional)
Directions
- Preheat oven to 150 degrees.
- Lay parchment paper (Teflon coated paper works better than wax coated paper) on baking sheet and spread out white chocolate chips.
- Place in oven to allow to melt.
- Chop coffee beans in food processor (Optional: Keep some of them whole as a variation.)
- Remove pan from oven and spread chocolate evenly across pan.
- Sprinkle with coffee beans.
- Garnish by drizzling melted semi sweet chocolate in creative patterns over the pan (Optional).
- Allow to cool in the refrigerator.
- Break or chop apart into bite size pieces, or larger for some variation.
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Try Bean Bark with a stout beer like Guinness!
Comment by chocolate man November 16, 2008 @ 8:39 am