Keep Your Cool with Cacao, Coconut and Cardamom on Ice

Name: Iced Cacao with Coconut and Cardamom
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 5 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 1
Ingredients: 28 g Keith’s Cacao Paste; 150 ml Fresh Coconut Water; 2 tbsp Coconut Milk/Cream; 2 Cardamom Pods; 1 tsp Honey/Agave Syrup or other sweetener of choice

Looking for the yummiest, bestest way to keep yourself both cool and super energized this Summer?

This is it! Iced Keith's Cacao - made with fresh coconut water, coconut milk, cardamom, and honey! More than a summer drink, this is a magic potion of powerful nutrition and health goodness!

You probably already know the amazing benefits -physical and beyond- of drinking Ceremonial Cacao. (if you don't, head to our blog Cacao Benefits: 5 Reasons to Start Drinking Ceremonial Cacao Today).

Now, add the nutrients and electrolytes of fresh coconut water, and you have the perfect, most delicious beverage for restoring hydration, replenishing the body, and powering up heart health.

Even if the health benefits don't intrigue you, we guarantee that the fresh, slightly sweet, nutty flavor of coconut water, combined with the earthy bitter-sweet taste of Cacao and the fragrant, herbal warmth of cardamom, will delight your palate, giving you a whiff of the tropics!

Anyway you look at it, this really is an awesome blissful drink for hot summers!

Ingredients

Instructions

Ingredients

28 g Keith’s Cacao Paste
150 ml Fresh Coconut Water
2 tbsp Coconut Milk/Cream
2 Cardamom Pods
1 tsp Honey/Agave Syrup or other sweetener of choice

Instructions

Open and prepare the coconut and put aside 150 ml of its water.
Finely chop the Cacao.
Finely crush the cardamom with a pestle and mortar.
Put the coconut water, coconut milk, cardamom and honey in a small saucepan, and slowly heat the mixture to lukewarm. DO NOT BOIL.
Mix with a hand blender until all ingredients have melted and a froth has formed.
Fill both the cocktail shaker and the coconut shell with ice.
Pour the hot cacao over the ice in the shaker. Shake well.
Serve into the coconut shell, adding a spoon and a straw.
Sip mindfully and enjoy!