Need to pull an all nighter? Need a sharp energy buzz? Let me introduce to you chocoshock.
Last night I had the privelidge of appearing on an American talk show, thus meaning that I had to be up all night. It’s easy to take a couple of espresso’s in the morining, but what happens when I become tired in school? How can I get a caffeine fix at school? Well I decided I would try creating some chocolate covered coffee beans. So I headed to the shop, bought some chocolate buttons, melted them and mixed with some beans.
These particular beens were Lavazza espresso blend, and Lees best friend Peter said that they were quite good. But however an aquired taste.
So now I’ve got my thinking cap on! I think it may be a good idea to use some lighter roasted beans, maybe even green for more caffeine. Please people experiment and tell me what you think.
The beans are created by melting chocolate and stiring beans into it. The mixture is then put on some tin foil and spread out. It’s then put in the freezer and should be broken up when hard.
This is one of the best advances in chocalate goods i have seen in a while. Just when I think that chocolate has gone as far as it can, Gary comes out with using whole cofee beans, i am impressed.
after a few weeks of getting through a batch which Gary made me, and asking other people to taste some, i have a few idras of how it can be improved.
First of all it needs a lot more chocolate, at the moment it is like a flat rice crispy cake with cofee beans. Also it needs to be a different chocolate, i am thinking glaxy, or maybe lindt.
Well i do see this working very wrll with a bit of effort, please try harder gary!
You could try grinding the coffee, too… You should check out Intelligentsia’s Black Cat Bar, it’s pretty awesome. (Incidentally, green coffee beans have less caffeine than darkly roasted ones.)
hi i am matthew todd lukes freind does instant coffee work??!
1) No instant coffe can not be used. It would simply melt into the coffee and make a coffee tasting chocolate, which wouldn’t be nesesserily bad, but simply not the desired output.
2) Green beans do have more caffeine in them than darkly roasted ones.
Let me clear this up. Dark or light roast coffee has the exact same amount of caffeine as it is when it is green. However, the darker the roast, the more bean mass is lost and therefore the higher concentration of caffeine in a darker roast. As reference allow me to point you to a discussion on coffeed, a site for professionals and enthusiasts, wherein an Australian cafe owner presents some theories and experiments that took place at Swiss Water Process (a chemical free decaffeination company).
Here’s a relevant quote:
“For the record roasting coffee results in the loss of some caffeine. But the darker roast ends up with a higher ‘concentration’ of caffeine.”
And:
“I brewed a shot of dark roast espresso and a shot of lighter roast espresso and they measured the caffeine with their HPLC machine. This machine is accurate down to 0.002% The results were: Agtron 29 (dark) Average 0.670% and for the Agtron 50 (light) an average 0.462%. This is 45% more caffeine in a dark roast shot in comparison to a light roast. This is is A SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE.”
I could have disabled the comment from blood orange which proves me wrong. I have however decided to swallow my pride and admit I was wrong and thus allow it. bloodOrange obviously knows his beans and I am thankful fir his knowledge.
Thanks BloodOrange
No prob sir. Sorry for the poor formatting… Let me know how those chocolate bars turn out.
hey gary i know a way to improve the mixture right here we go well acctuall new idea all together freze coffee into ice cubes that would taste delisious as does the iced coffee that costa coffee make