Shokola Y'Karanga — Dark Chocolate with Spicy Peanuts

Shokola means "chocolate" and Karanga means "peanut" in Swahili. Y' connects them.

So this is: Chocolate and Peanut, the East African way.

Same foundation as our Shokola bar: Tanzanian cacao, sourced slave-free, roasted and crafted in Detroit with Dwaar Chocolate. But this one has a passenger. DeSoto Confections in Grand Rapids roasts the peanuts in caramelized spices — sweet, with a slow heat that builds after the chocolate melts.

The result is the kind of bar that disappears faster than you planned for it to.

Tasting notes: dark chocolate, caramelized sweetness, spiced warmth, roasted peanut.

For the record: this one outsells the plain Shokola at the restaurant. Make of that what you will.

As served at Baobab Fare, Detroit