Cinnamon extraction and cocoa extraction

[Semiretired]

Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought the beans sit and age (or sort of ferment) then get roasted. Seems like fresh ones would taste pretty different without those steps. But, maybe it's that different taste that you're going for though. Does the fresh stuff taste much like regular cocoa?

These have already been roasted before we get them. They actually send us beans and semi processed cocoa in chunk form (not processed to the extent of what you buy in the grocery store - much denser) and this is the one i was thinking of using.

 

[Bostonsnboxers]

These have already been roasted before we get them. They actually send us beans and semi processed cocoa in chunk form (not processed to the extent of what you buy in the grocery store - much denser) and this is the one i was thinking of using.

If it were me...I'd try it! What've you got to lose but a bit of cocoa, time and pg (pg's cheap) right? You could end up with something really tasty

 

[Jimi D.]

Ya'll are using cocoa powder - will it work with real cocoa - right from the tree? My wifes family has cocoa tree and we get a pound or two every year.

Do you think it will work? This stuff is so firm and dense that it will not mix with milk unless the milk is warm / hot first and you only use a tiny amount...

Oh I gotta try it...

It sounds like your'e on to something good. Non processed cocoa..Wow..

 

[dirtmonkey]

edit: someone already posted about the cocoa butter problem, I had just missed it. I wouldn't use whole beans because of that, the powder has nearly all the oils removed.

 

[Semiretired]

Thanks, scratches that idea. That is why I always touch base here before I jump in... Again thanks.

 

[Tona Aspsusa]

[Bumping the thread for AdCurti]

As chronicled above, my experiment produced a not-that-fabulous cake (we ate about half of it and the rest will be an experiment), and a few ml of a very very dark liquid. Insanely sweet if you lick a drop.

I don't really know if it is good or bad - I'm pretty new to vaping, and I don't really vape dessert -flavours.

But I had tried to put some milk chocolate flavouring into a weakish mint, and it was just disastrously hideous. So I thought, why not see if this home brew can save it?
Well, at least it didn't make it any worse. A few drops of coffee flavouring too, and it is almost vapeable. I think I now have something like 18-19% flavouring in this juice, which is insanely high for me. But since most of it is my own cocoa extraction, I thought I might as well go really high, I might even add even more to it at some point.

I might even make another batch when I again have some good pure VG and a tea-bag contraptions of some sort - filtering this is a PITA.