Our favorites include Bibamba, which sources its cocoa from its own farm in Cameroon, and Colorado Cocoa Pod's Asian-inspired bon bons.
Our favorites include Bibamba, which sources its cocoa from its own farm in Cameroon, and Colorado Cocoa Pod's Asian-inspired bon bons.},{ "name":"Editor Picks", "component":"17242653", "insertPoint":"4", "requiredCountToDisplay":"1", "watchElement":".
After graduation, she oscillated between working for various bakeries and confectioners and getting Colorado Cocoa Pods going. But after her mother’s death, she went all-in selling her handcrafted bon bons in flavors inspired by her half-Chinese, half-Japanese background. She makes it a point to partner with other local businesses like the Sweetest Bean, a Littleton-based company owned by two women who source their vanilla from a Ugandan village where they lived for seven years; and Black Sheep Pasture in Peyton, which is where she gets her eggs. She also stocks Tea With Tae, Huckleberry Roasters and Colorado Mountain Jam in the retail section of her shop.
Patrick, who emigrated to the U.S. from Cameroon, reached out to his family and their contacts. In 2015, he purchased farmland in the Center province of the country and started planting cacao, plantains and coffee seeds. At that time, Patrick worked as a chemical engineer in oil and gas while Mara was a psychotherapist but both had a burning desire to become entrepreneurs in an ethical, sustainable manner that could be passed down to the next generations.
Patrick and Mara realized they needed to pivot to retail, so they got a commissary kitchen and started selling at farmer’s markets, pop-ups and online. Bibamba's first product was Jungle Crunch, a dark chocolate bark made with plantains harvested from the farm. Today, the most popular bark flavor is the orange bark, which is 60 percent dark chocolate with whole orange slices and warm spices like cinnamon.
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