Spike in Cocoa Prices Might Make Chocolate More Expensive

[jazzy]

the end is nigh fer sure, another article says cadbury will double candy privces. due to cocoa shortages globally. better get your cocoa powder asap. could be the new money

Spike in Cocoa Prices Might Make Chocolate More Expensive​

https://www.convenience.org/Media/D...ke-Cocoa-Price-Chocolate-More-Exensive_CatMan

 

[Amish Heart]

Still a good buy at Aldi....a large dk chocolate bar with almonds (was $1.29) is $1.49.
I think all candy bars have gone up. Husband and I also like Payday bars, and a king sized one of those that we share when we're at Walmart is 2 bucks.

 

[jazzy]

i buy the unsweet special dark cocoa powfder and make my own choc bars---super easy and can add whatever you want

Paleo Chocolare Bar

1/2 c coc oa powder
1/2 c solid coconut oil
1/2 - 1 rsp stevia powder to taste
3 T peanut butter
1-2 tsp vanilla
1/2 c + chop nuts, sunflower seeds, walnuts, raisens etc



put cocoa, oil, peanut butter in pan over low het, melt and stir
remove from heat -- add vanilla
add nuts
mix well
pour into lined pan and put in fridge to harden - about 2 hrs

when solid i break apart into small pieces and bag. keep in fridge.

can also pour into lined muffin tin cups but im too lazy and spill too much lol

i make a batch of this 1x a month. sometimes ya just got to have chocolate

 

[Amish Heart]

I buy plenty of cocoa powder for brownies and for chocolate frosting. Gotta have that, too.

 

[Tommyice]

I get Lidl’s “premium” chocolate—dark chocolate and mint. I purchased last about three weeks ago and it was $1.99 for a 4.4 ounce bar that lasts me a week. This week it was $2.49. That’s a pretty big jump in less than a month.

It won’t be just candy and baking supplies that increase. Skincare that utilizes cocoa butter will also increase.

 

[joel]

I have about three pounds of Coco.

 

[ClemKadiddlehopper]

I have 30 lbs of extra dark cocoa powder and it is well hidden. I was forced to make some brownies because of this thread.

 

[Amish Heart]

Oh shucks, Clem Ha Ha
Husband also asks if they are selling brownies at the farmer's mkt, and they aren't, and he would like them probably. It's a hint to make some that afternoon.
I think I have about 10 lbs of cocoa powder stored. Better get more.
For the first time, I saw black cocoa powder for sale at the bulk store. I've never used that, and it sure was dark.

 

[Supervisor42]

the end is nigh fer sure, another article says cadbury will double candy privces. due to cocoa shortages globally. better get your cocoa powder asap. could be the new money

Spike in Cocoa Prices Might Make Chocolate More Expensive​

https://www.convenience.org/Media/D...ke-Cocoa-Price-Chocolate-More-Exensive_CatMan

This has been in the works since February. Remember when you started this thread?
https://www.homesteadingforum.org/threads/cocoa-prices-hit-all-time-high-spelling-trouble-for-chocolate-lovers.20105/post-619684
I think manufactures have held out as long as they could, and burned thru any supplies they had stockpiled.

 

[Amish Heart]

Well, Christmas will be here before you know it, and that's when all baking supplies go on sale. Well see what it's all price at.
Oil, good oil, is crazy priced and not going down. It's almost tripled in price. I'm curious if we'll have butter sales in Nov and Dec like normal. Then I'll freeze a few cases of it like I always do.
At least cocoa powder is easy to store.

 

[d_marsh]

I can survive high cocoa prices, but if coffee prices keep climbing I will be parachuting into Columbia full on Rambo.

 

[Weedygarden]

One of my clients came back from Guatemala last Sunday and brought me a bag of chocolate tea. The tea is technically the shells from cacao beans that are soaked to make into chocolate. I have had one cup so far. Steep the shells in water and the following are possible choices to add: cream, milk, half and half, brown sugar, sugar, cinnamon. I chose cream and it was good. I like chocolate, but am really more of a vanilla person.

 

[Supervisor42]

I can survive high cocoa prices, but if coffee prices keep climbing I will be parachuting into Columbia full on Rambo.

I checked my 2 benchmarks, and I am baffled.
Cocoa continuous contract, and Hershey's 5-lb chocolate bar.
Both are about the same price as February.
The price of both of them had almost doubled by May.
I think their price-gouging put a bigger damper on demand than they anticipated, and they are trying to jumpstart the 'panic-buying' again.

 

[Supervisor42]

Smaller annoying graph time.
Cocoa prices since January:

 

[ClemKadiddlehopper]

Oh shucks, Clem Ha Ha
Husband also asks if they are selling brownies at the farmer's mkt, and they aren't, and he would like them probably. It's a hint to make some that afternoon.
I think I have about 10 lbs of cocoa powder stored. Better get more.
For the first time, I saw black cocoa powder for sale at the bulk store. I've never used that, and it sure was dark.

That's the good stuff. It has a hint of red to it. You haven't had a brownie until you've made them with the truly dark stuff. It balances all the sugar content and they are fudgy chocolatey goodness. Don't ruin them with walnuts.

 

[joel]

I have 30 lbs of extra dark cocoa powder and it is well hidden. I was forced to make some brownies because of this thread.

Touche'

 

[Amish Heart]

I wouldn't ruin them with walnuts. But I do like to add chocolate chips

 

[Weedygarden]

I would ruin them with walnuts.

 

[Magpie]

They've been warning this here since before the pandemic. Also tea and coffee, partly due to tea plantations recently being washed away in storms in India.