Discover Cocoyay! A Delicious Chocolate Snack made with fine Cocoa!

In 2022, Cocobel Chocolate won a Shaping the Future of Innovation* grant to pursue the development of a snack with ambitious goals. They wanted to use ends from the production of their existing line of chocolates to make a new snack that felt casual, yet carried with it the care and excitement typically reserved for fancier, gourmet products. Underpinning all of this was their mission to create a natural, local snack – not just one made in Trinidad & Tobago, but one made here using local ingredients. It needed to be wholesome as well and, quite simply put, it needed to taste great. Cocoyay is the outcome of those ambitions – a Moruga hill rice chocolate snack with a cassava crunch and fruit-filled centre that has at its heart the community of people brought together to make it. In this episode, Cocobel founder Isabel Brash is our guide as we travel from the cocoa estate where it all started, to conversations with farmers and other entrepreneurs, and, finally, to production in the Woodbrook kitchen where Cocoyay is made. A project of the Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago in partnership with the European Union and the IDB Lab, with CARIRI as the executing agency ▼Website: https://cocoyaylove.com/ ▼Follow Cocoyea On Instagram:   / cocoyay.love   #food #chocolate #cacao 0:00 Intro 0:29 Meeting Isabel 1:44 Welcome To Rancho Quemado Estate 3:07 Processing Cocoa 6:16 Introduction to Cocoyay 8:18 Meet The Farmers - Shiraz 9:18 Meet The Farmers - Cyrilee 10:31 Building Community With Cocoyay 11:06 Making Cocoyay - Walkthrough With Isabel 24:13 Outro Join this channel to get access to perks:    / @eatahfood