It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas
Christmas! It is only days away so we have decided it is safe to utter the C-word. Christmas isn’t all moans and groans though, there are many pleasure to take away from this time of year
Try mylk for Vegan Month
November is Vegan Month and begins with World Vegan Day, so it seemed like the perfect time to consider the perks and pitfalls of plant based milks to compliment our vegan products. Even if you aren’t vegan, plenty of your customers will be and will appreciate a barista who knows what they want.
Halloween
It’s nearly Halloween and time for menus to change to reflect the season. We decided to take time out to have a fact find about Halloween. We created a simple guide to help you add a seasonal flourish to your drinks with Zuma Dark Chocolate Sauce. Customers appreciated the little touches, and with Halloween just […]
Hot Chocolate or Hot Cocoa?
Hot chocolate or hot cocoa? Which one is which and what do you want? You often hear people mentioning both and the names being used almost interchangeably, but historically they were not the same thing. Do you know the difference? Traditionally speaking, hot cocoa was a thin, sweetened beverage made from cocoa powder, sugar and […]
Make your signature hot chocolate
We noticed that customers are looking to their hot chocolates with the same critical eye they turn to their coffee beans. Their interest in origin, cocoa content and flavour profiles led to us expanding our collection, which we don’t do without very good reason. We recently launched our new 100% Organic Cocoa which allows you […]
Focus on: White Hot Chocolate
White chocolate contains cocoa butter, sugar and milk solids but no cocoa solids, such as cocoa powder. Milk chocolate, for example, contains about 30-40 percent cocoa solids, while dark chocolate contains a minimum of 50 percent and up to 85 percent cocoa*. So technically you could say, white chocolate is not really chocolate as we know […]
Mexican Heat
A hot chocolate might not be the first beverage that pops into your customers mind now the mercury has risen, but there’s no reason for you not to help put the idea there. Iced coffees and frappés seem like the logical choice to cool down in the sunshine but there is truth in the idea […]
Thick hot chocolate & churros
With warmer weather on the horizon our minds have turned to churros; tasty deep fried sticks of dough, sugar sprinkled and served with warm chocolate for dipping.