Named a top ‘best’ cocoa for taste by Food & Wine.
Rich, balanced and perfectly spiced.
Try for $21.50Crafted with chefs ·
three functional mushrooms ·
5g of sugar per serving · vegan
Such a rich and deep flavor! … It is also great to add to the base of chili or mole.
Start with a taste
Crafted with chefs
We obsessively craft our recipes with chefs for taste as well as purpose. Every ingredient was chosen for how it tastes, and for something you drink every day.
Ceylon cinnamon, ginger + cayenne
We use Ceylon cinnamon, never cassia — because this is something you drink every day. Ginger for brightness. And cayenne bought inside a heat band, 35,000 to 40,000 Scoville units and no hotter, so the finish is warm, never hot.
Chili in drinking chocolate isn’t a modern twist. It’s the original recipe people fell in love with.
Cacao from the Dominican Republic
Single-source cacao meets European Dutch‑processed dark cocoa. Ours is grown at Zorzal Cacao del Bosque in Duarte, on organic farms beside a conservation reserve: the world’s first Smithsonian-certified Bird Friendly cocoa farms.
It tastes of bright tropical citrus balanced by chocolate and caramel. It’s real cocoa, not a cocoa-flavored powder.
We didn’t hire a formulator. We worked with a chocolatier.
LOCOCO was blended in partnership with Romie Mangini Fisher, Executive Pastry Chef at a Forbes Five-Star resort, where she previously served as Lead Chocolatier — because a cocoa you drink every day should be made by someone who makes chocolate for a living.
A fabulous companion to a bit of booze
That’s how Food & Wine put it. Serve it hot in a mug or pour it over ice in a tall glass.
LOCOCO vs. other cocoas
Popular cocoas start with sugar. Functional cocoas forget the taste. Here’s how we stack up:
| ® | Popular cocoas |
Functional cocoas |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Taste | ★★★★★Dark, spiced cocoa with a touch of sweet |
★★★★★Sweet-led, light on chocolate |
★★★★★Earthy, raw, and unsweetened |
| Sugar / serving | 5g | 16–26gplus corn syrup | 0–3g |
| Vegan + dairy free | Yes | No | Yes |
| Functional ingredients | Cacao · Lion’s Mane · Cordyceps · Maitake | None | Most common: Cacao · Reishi · L-theanine · melatonin |
| Purpose | COMFORT · VITALITY · BALANCE | COMFORT · INDULGENCE | OFTEN DESIGNED FOR SLEEP |
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Questions people actually ask
Where should I start?
The To‑Go Cocoa Bundle: both flavors in 10 single-serve sachets. Or the Original Spice To‑Go Sachets: five cups of the flavor Food & Wine tasted.
How do I make a cup?
Add a full sachet, or 1-2 tablespoons from the bag, to 8 oz of hot water or your favorite milk. Blend with a handheld frother or stir vigorously with a spoon until smooth + foamy.
Why don’t I taste any mushroom?
Because our mushroom extracts are highly concentrated (8:1), it takes very little to get the equivalent of nearly 1 g of functional mushrooms into every cup. The flavors that lead are dark chocolate and the spices—cinnamon, ginger and cayenne in Original Spice and deep, sweet vanilla in Lux Vanilla.