cocoa

The Dhokla Aero is aerated white chocolate, cocoa butter and a purée of Dhokla inside.

We infuse all the flavors of Dhokla into the white chocolate and cocoa butter mixture.

For those avoiding dairy, Vu recommended a plant-based alternative: "A plant-based butter I’ve had some success with as a butter substitute is Tourlami, which claims to replace dairy butter in recipes 1:1. Indeed, my Pastry & Baking Arts class baked great croissants with Tourlami butter, which is made of fats mainly from from cocoa and coconut, but was somewhat lacking in the creamy, buttery flavor."

Some local businessmen and politicians are widely suspected to have joined them in what has been dubbed "the mad gold rush", buying out cocoa farms and turning them into illegal mining sites.

The illegal mining has also affected cocoa production, with the Ghana Cocoa Board saying in 2021 that more than 19,000 hectares of farmland had been destroyed in key cocoa-growing areas like the Western and Ashanti regions.