Woodblock's Tanzanian Tin Roof

This is our eighth year working with chocolate maker Woodblock; as opposed to a chocolatier, who combines chocolate with different flavors/ingredients to create innumerable confections, makers roast cacao beans to bring out the most prominent flavors of each variety, then turn the beans into chocolate through a long and arduous process. According to Woodblock, what grows together goes together—that’s the theory that Charley Wheelock uses when making his chocolate and the same idea that we showcased with this flavor. The Tanzanian chocolate from the Kilombero Valley has notes of sweet raspberry and rose with a ticklish pinch of African acidity. We add spices plus habanero, which grows in Tanzania, to play off the cacao notes.