Ora Cacao Recipes
Our first two recipes are your foundation for daily and ceremonial connection with cacao. The following recipes give creative inspiration for adding various superfoods to your cacao drinks.
The Daily Recipe is great for those who plan to drink cacao most or all days, for example, as a day to day coffee replacement. The Ceremonial Recipe is perfect for when you'd like to create a more intentional container during which you will be drinking a higher dose of cacao. We recommend you don't go beyond 2 ceremonial doses per week.
The Daily Recipe
25 Cacao discs (about 23 grams)
6oz water, milk or herbal tea
2 tsp sweetener of your choice, optional
Heat your water to 180 degrees. Like green tea, using boiling water with our cacao could heat out all the powerful nutrients. We like using electric kettles with temperature control or you can boil the water and let it cool down for a few minutes.
Select your dosage with intention. Cacao can be stimulating, so this dosage chart will help you decide how much cacao to work with. We also recommend taking notes on how your body responds to different amounts, as every body is different.
Make it creamy! Place the cacao in a blender, pour in 4-5 oz of heated water per serving and gently blend to create a nice frothy drink. We also love these hand-held milk frothers, which are less clean-up.
*Bonus tip! The cacao tastes better when you pause and set an intention for your day before taking your first sip.
The Ceremonial Recipe
45-50 Cacao discs (40-46 grams)
10oz. water, milk or herbal tea
2 tsp sweetener of your choice, optional
Heat your water to 180 degrees. Like green tea, using boiling water with our cacao could heat out all the powerful nutrients. We like using electric kettles with temperature control or you can boil the water and let it cool down for a few minutes.
Select your dosage with intention. Cacao can be stimulating, so this dosage chart will help you decide how much cacao to work with. We also recommend taking notes on how your body responds to different amounts, as every body is different.
Make it creamy! Place the cacao in a blender, pour in 4-5 oz of heated water per serving and gently blend to create a nice frothy drink. We also love these hand-held milk frothers, which are less clean-up.
*Bonus tip! The cacao tastes better when you pause and set an intention for your day before taking your first sip.
Bzzz Belizean Morning Cacao Recipe
Daily Recipe with Boundless Belize
Heated water, or nut-milk like hemp, almond or cashew to make it creamy
1⁄2 tsp of local bee pollen
Pinch of cinnamon
Bee pollen is a complete protein, rich in vitamins, minerals, enzymes, amino acids and antioxidants. It is rich in B vitamins which are essential for a healthy nervous system and powerful detoxifiers, especially to the brain. We have found that pairing cacao with the pollen of local bees is a potent way to connect with land you are on, and give thanks to the bee family that does so much for us and our food systems.
From Mind to Heart Recipe
Make the Daily Recipe with Tantric Rose Blossom, then add:
1 tsp Maca per serving
Damiana tea (recipe below) used as the base liquid
Cinnamon
Maca is a Peruvian radish with superfood properties, and has used by indigenous Andean peoples for thousand of years for increased stamina and balancing of hormones.Damiana is best known for it's aphrodisiac qualities, and also supports hormone balancing. Both Damiana & Cacao are diuretics and are high in antioxidants, which is why we recommend a lighter tea in this recipe.
Cinnamon is warming, and supports digestion.
This recipe supports a warming, powerful experience of embodiment.
Morning Elevate Recipe
Maca is a Peruvian radish with superfood properties, and has used by indigenous Andean peoples for thousand of years for increased stamina and balancing of hormones.
Mucuna is known as the dopamine bean, and gives another layer of mood boosting to the already elevating properties in cacao.
Mocha Heart Blast Recipe
1/2 Daily Recipe, any cacao
1/2 cup of coffee
Take half of the Daily Recipe and then half of your favorite coffee for a bulletproof style mocha. Get ready for blast-off!
Morning Glow Recipe
Daily Recipe with Glowing Guatemala and using 5 ounces of heated nut milk instead of water
a pinch of turmeric
locally sourced bee pollen
locally sourced honey to taste
Glowing Guatemalan cacao feels mothering, loving and wise, and is useful for insight and inner work. Nut milk gives it a thicker creamy texture, and turmeric fights inflammation, making your skin glow! Bee pollen is a complete protein that boosts vitality. This recipe will have you glowing inside and out!
Have you ever found yourself with leftover cacao?
Pour your cacao into muffin tins, and stir in any sweetener or spices (perhaps a little cinnamon or sprinkle of cayenne). The important thing is to finalize the recipe before letting the cacao set up.
Leave it in your refrigerator overnight. You will have a creamy mousse by morning, ready to eat!
IMPORTANT: This also will last three days longer than keeping the cacao in liquid form!
Yum!
Ceremonial Cacao Mousse Recipe
Leftover Ceremonial Cacao
When you have leftover cacao, pour it into ice cube trays and put it in the freezer.
You can put 2-3 cacao ice cubes in your smoothie the next day to add healthy cacao to your breakfast.
Cacao Ice Cubes
Leftover cacao
Not sure where to start with cacao?
Our curated kits offer an opportunity to taste and experience a variety of cacaos. Whether you are looking for a new favorite or getting started, these are the perfect avenue for finding your Ora.