Cacao Barry Grand Caraque is pure cocoa mass, 100% ground cocoa beans with nothing added, in a 6.6 pound bucket of easy melting pistoles. It is the unsweetened heart of chocolate, offered on its own so a chef can push a recipe's chocolate flavor and color as far as it will go while keeping full control of the sugar.

Ground to a fine 25 microns, it melts smooth and clean with none of the grit of a coarser mass, and its natural cocoa butter content of at least 53% lets it flow and set like a chocolate. The flavor is deep, dark, and bitter in the way only pure cocoa can be, so a modest amount gives a fondant, a brownie, or a flourless cake a profound chocolate color while quietly dampening the sweetness of the recipe around it. It is also the building block for custom chocolate blends, bittersweet ganaches and sauces, chocolate sorbet, and any formula that calls for unsweetened chocolate.

Callebaut Cocoa Mass Block (100%) is the Belgian alternative in a solid 11 pound block at a lower price point.