BLUE Donkey Chocolate - Donkey Darkmilk ZEN v2 (sugar-free), 50 g
Product detailed description
BLUE Donkey is a darkmilk bar from the Lithuanian maker Chocolate Naive, built on freeze-dried organic donkey milk. Donkey milk is a rare ingredient with a lighter profile than cow's milk, and it is what gives the bar its velvety texture and faintly cooling dairy notes. Cocoa solids sit at a minimum of 50%, which places the bar between milk and dark chocolate.
The recipe came out of a collaboration between Adam Raw and Domantas Užpalis. On top of a base of fine cacao and freshly pressed cocoa butter come chamomile, blue spirulina, freeze-dried cherries, 2’-fucosyllactose and Lactium, a milk peptide. The blue spirulina doubles as a natural colouring and gives the bar its shade.
There is no added sugar, the bar is sweetened with birch xylitol instead. On the palate you get dairy and cooling notes, herbs, gentle cacao and cherry. It weighs 50 g and sits well alongside an evening tea or as a light close to the day.
Key benefits
- Organic donkey milk – freeze-dried, giving the bar its gentle dairy flavour and velvety texture.
- No added sugar – sweetened with birch xylitol, 0 g of sugars per 100 g.
- Minimum 50% cocoa solids – a darkmilk profile between milk and dark chocolate.
- Chamomile and freeze-dried cherries – the herbal and fruity notes in the recipe.
- Blue spirulina – a natural colouring that gives the bar its shade.
- Bean to bar by Naive – made in Lithuania from fine cacao and freshly pressed cocoa butter.
How to use
Snap off two or three squares and let them melt slowly in the mouth. The bar gives most of its flavour at room temperature, so let it rest a moment after the fridge. It pairs nicely with herbal tea.
Ingredients
Fine cacao, freeze-dried organic donkey milk, xylitol, freshly pressed cocoa butter, 2’-fucosyllactose, Lactium (milk peptides), chamomile, blue spirulina, freeze-dried cherries. Cocoa solids minimum 50%.
Net weight 50 g. Made by Chocolate Naive, Lithuania.
| Nutrition | per 100 g |
|---|---|
| Energy | 2481 kJ / 596 kcal |
| Fat | 38 g |
| of which saturates | 22 g |
| Carbohydrate | 48 g |
| of which sugars | 0 g |
| Protein | 9 g |
| Salt | 0.042 g |
Warning
Contains milk (donkey milk and milk peptides). May contain traces of nuts and peanuts. Excessive consumption may produce a laxative effect. Store in a cool, dry, dark place below 18 °C.
Distributor
Distributor: Adam Raw, Metylovice 552, 739 49 Metylovice, Czech Republic, Reg. No. 03452824.
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Naive: bean-to-bar chocolate from Lithuania that treats cacao like wine
Naive is a small Lithuanian chocolate maker with an unusual approach. Rather than forcing every bean into the same recipe, the team analyses each cacao lot for taste, colour, aroma and texture and only then decides how to roast, grind and finish it. The goal is to reveal the character of that specific bean, not to hide it under sugar and vanilla.
The results have put Lithuania on the map of fine chocolate and earned Naive a reputation as one of the rising names in the craft chocolate world. Some bars are experiments you will not see anywhere else: Jaguar Tree Cacao made from the rare Theobroma bicolor, Ambrosia, a dark chocolate with bee pollen and honey, Kefir dark-milk, and the sugar-free Molecules series. More than twenty of them are on the shelf at BJP Store.