Summary: My family's recipe for Vegan Panamanian Chocolate Fudge deliciously opens each new year, sweetens other days and recalls my father's stay in Panama.
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| Equal Exchange, a for-profit, Fairtrade-certified, worker-owned cooperative headquartered in West Bridgewater, Plymouth County, southeastern Massachusetts, describes its bestseller Organic Panama Extra Dark Chocolate 80% Cacao as "perfectly balanced to allow the true chocolate flavor of the Panamanian beans to shine" (https://shop.equalexchange.coop/products/organic-panama-extra-dark-chocolate-80-cacao); Panama Extra Dark, number nine from top of bestselling stack, number five from bottom: Equal Exchange, via Facebook May 27, 2022 |
My family's recipe for vegan Panamanian chocolate fudge sweetens our menu for New Year's Day, deliciously appears throughout the year and recalls my father's stay in Panama.
Ingredients:
My Family's Recipe for Vegan Panamanian Chocolate Fudge
Ingredients:
six 2.8-ounce bars of Equal Exchange Organic Panama Extra Dark Chocolate
Or: Equal Exchange Organic Panama Extra Dark Chocolate 80% Cacao
one 11.25-ounce can of sweetened condensed coconut milk
Preparation:
Or: Equal Exchange Organic Panama Extra Dark Chocolate 80% Cacao
one 11.25-ounce can of sweetened condensed coconut milk
Preparation:
1. Spray 8 x 8 pan with coconut oil non-stick cooking spray.
Set aside.
2. Fill the bottom pot of a double boiler with 2 inches of water.
Place pot on burner at low heat and bring to a simmer.
3. While water is simmering, break chocolate bars into sections and place in top pot of double boiler.
Pour sweetened condensed coconut milk over broken bars.
4. Set top pot on lower pot. Stir constantly, over low heat, until chocolate pieces and condensed coconut milk have melted. Gently blend until smooth.
5. Pour mixture into pan.
Place pan in refrigerator and allow to set, at least one hour.
6. Cut into desired-size pieces (usually rectangles or squares) when fudge is cool.
Organic Panama 80% Cacao Extra Dark Chocolate Bars shine as best sellers in the cacao product line of Equal Exchange. The Panama single origin bar's launch in 2008 qualifies Equal Exchange as the only U.S. company selling chocolate originating in cacao beans from República de Panamá ("Republic of Panama"), as noted by Equal Exchange's s "Cacao Co-Op Profile: COCABO Co-Op" (https://equalexchange.coop/sites/default/files/coopprofile_cocabo.pdf).
Set aside.
2. Fill the bottom pot of a double boiler with 2 inches of water.
Place pot on burner at low heat and bring to a simmer.
3. While water is simmering, break chocolate bars into sections and place in top pot of double boiler.
Pour sweetened condensed coconut milk over broken bars.
4. Set top pot on lower pot. Stir constantly, over low heat, until chocolate pieces and condensed coconut milk have melted. Gently blend until smooth.
5. Pour mixture into pan.
Place pan in refrigerator and allow to set, at least one hour.
6. Cut into desired-size pieces (usually rectangles or squares) when fudge is cool.
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| Vegan Chocolate Fudge excels as an attractive, delicious dessert; Saturday, Dec. 20, 2008, 12:33, image of vegan chocolate fudge: Veganbaking.net, CC BY SA 2.0 Generic, via Wikimedia Commons |
Organic Panama 80% Cacao Extra Dark Chocolate Bars shine as best sellers in the cacao product line of Equal Exchange. The Panama single origin bar's launch in 2008 qualifies Equal Exchange as the only U.S. company selling chocolate originating in cacao beans from República de Panamá ("Republic of Panama"), as noted by Equal Exchange's s "Cacao Co-Op Profile: COCABO Co-Op" (https://equalexchange.coop/sites/default/files/coopprofile_cocabo.pdf).
The for-profit, Fairtrade-certified, worker-owned cooperative headquarters in West Bridgewater, Plymouth County, southeastern Massachusetts. In 1983, while working in Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, at NEFCO/Northeast Co-ops, a New England-based, consumer food co-op distributor, Rink Dickinson, Jonathan Rosenthal and Michael Rozyne conceived the idea of creating an international trade-based cooperative producing quality food and valuing consumers and a direct-trade network of primarily small-scale, environmentally-conscious farmers, as described by Rink Dickinson in "Reflections From Rink: The History of Our Alternative Capital Model" on Equal Exchange Resource Center's website (https://www.info.equalexchange.coop/articles/history-of-our-capital-model).
Three years later, in 1986, the trio co-founded Equal Exchange. The release of the first shipment of Nicaraguan coffee from the Port of Boston by U.S. customs officials on Thursday, May 1, 1986, qualified Café Nica as Equal Exchange's first product, as listed under "Historical Highlights" in "The History of Equal Exchange" on Equal Exchange Resource Center's website (https://www.info.equalexchange.coop/articles/the-history-of-equal-exchange).
The vegan-, soy- and gluten-free dark bars feature Panamanian cacao beans, according to the product's description on Equal Exchange's Shop website (https://shop.equalexchange.coop/products/organic-panama-extra-dark-chocolate-80-cacao). The organic cacao beans for the chocolate liquor in Organic Panama 80% Cacao Extra Dark Chocolate Bars source from Cooperativa De CACAO Bocatoreña R.L. (COCABO; Cacao Co-operative of Bocatoreña).
The chocolate cooperative was founded in 1952 as Panama's first agricultural co-operative, according to "Grown by small farmer co-ops" on Equal Exchange's Shop website (https://shop.equalexchange.coop/products/organic-panama-extra-dark-chocolate-80-cacao). COCABO headquarters in Almirante ("Admiral"), a port city on Bahía Almirante (Almirante Bay) on Panama's Caribbean coast. The head city of Almirante District in Panama's cacao-rich northwesternmost province of Bocas del Toro ("Mouths of the Bull") is located near Parque Internacional La Amistad ("La Amistad International Park"). The 1983-listed UNESCO World Heritage Site equally straddles the border between República de Costa Rica ("The Republic of Costa Rica") and Panama and Panama.
COCABO comprises 1,500 small-scale cacao farmers in the Bocas del Toro province of northwestern coastal Panama, according to the Equal Exchange Resource Center's Partners page on COCABO (https://www.info.equalexchange.coop/partners/cocabo). Indigenous peoples comprise 95 percent of COCABO's farmers. Most members are Ngöbe who live within Ngöbe-Buglé Comarca, the ancestral region of Panama's Buglé and Ngöbe indigenous tribes, as explained in Equal Exchange's "Cacao Co-Op Profile: COCABO Co-Op." Ngöbe-Buglé Comarca scenically lies within Parque Internacional La Amistad.
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| The organic cacao for Equal Exchange's Organic Panama Extra Dark Chocolate 80% Cacao Bars source from Cooperativa De CACAO Bocatoreña R.L. (COCABO), founded in 1952 as Panama's first agricultural co-operative, according to "Grown by small farmer co-ops" on Equal Exchange's Shop website (https://shop.equalexchange.coop/products/organic-panama-extra-dark-chocolate-80-cacao): Cooperativa De CACAO Bocatoreña R.L., via Facebook May 17, 2018 |
Acknowledgment
My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.
Dedication
Dedication
This post is dedicated to the memory of our beloved blue-eyed brother, Charles, who guided the creation of the Met Opera and Astronomy posts on Earth and Space News. We memorialized our brother in "Our Beloved Blue-Eyed Brother, Charles, With Whom We Are Well Pleased," published on Earth and Space News on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, an anniversary of our beloved father's death.
Image credits:
Image credits:
Equal Exchange, a for-profit, Fairtrade-certified, worker-owned cooperative headquartered in West Bridgewater, Plymouth County, southeastern Massachusetts, describes its bestseller Organic Panama Extra Dark Chocolate 80% Cacao as "perfectly balanced to allow the true chocolate flavor of the Panamanian beans to shine" (https://shop.equalexchange.coop/products/organic-panama-extra-dark-chocolate-80-cacao); Panama Extra Dark, number nine from top of bestselling stack, number five from bottom: Equal Exchange, via Facebook May 27, 2022 @ https://www.facebook.com/equalexchange/posts/10160139085393086; via Facebook @ https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10160139085333086&set=pb.100064906053520.-2207520000
Vegan Chocolate Fudge excels as an attractive, delicious dessert; Saturday, Dec. 20, 2008, 12:33, image of vegan chocolate fudge: Veganbaking.net. CC BY SA 2.0 Generic, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vegan_Chocolate_Fudge.jpg; Veganbaking.net, CC BY SA 2.0 Generic, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/31104779@N02/3618735332
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