Can coffee beans be made into edible solid blocks similarly to the way cocoa beans are made into blocks of chocolate?
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Can coffee beans be made into edible solid blocks similarly to the way cocoa beans are made into blocks of chocolate?
You can check the answer of the people under the question at Quora “1906 dark chocolate coffee beans“
This has been done by some enterprising bar manufacturers in Asia and others in Europe. You have to mix the coffee with cocoa butter – so it’s sort of a coffee/chocolate hybrid, but actually, chocolate bars (generally) have added cocoa butter not part of the beans that produced the flavour, so it’s not that fundamentally dissimilar. The cocoa butter is deodourised, so it doesn’t add any chocolate flavour.
The result, as you might expect, is a very intense coffee experience, like a portable espresso. You have to be careful how much you have, because as you might guess the caffeine content is frightening, but it’s an interesting flavour/texture combination, and many of these bars are made using excellent coffee.
Other bars along the same lines have been made including a raspberry bar and a mango bar – both dehydrated, powdered, and blended straight into cocoa butter. Again, a very interesting flavour and texture combination.
Not really, no. The reason this can be done with cocoa is that there is a large amount of fat—cocoa butter—inside the cocoa beans, and is solid at room temperature (but melts just a bit over that). Cocoa butter and ground cocoa powder together make blocks of chocolate (along with other ingredients, like sugar).
Coffee beans, on the other hand, are not beans at all (but rather the “seeds” of the coffee fruit), and do not contain much fat at all. If you grind the coffee beans, there is nothing left to hold the powder together—there’s no meaningful amount of fat to be extracted.