SMOKED NIB BRITTLE
Our friend Allan Benton in East Tennessee knows a thing or two about smoke. Years ago, he had the idea to put some of our cacao in his Madisonville, Tennessee smokehouse alongside the country hams and bacon that made his hickory smoke famous. What came back was deeply smoked cacao with all that unmistakable Benton character. Bacon and chocolate seemed a little too obvious, so we went another way. We tucked that hickory smoke into crisp, buttery caramel brittle, letting the sweetness soften its edges, then finished it with a thin layer of our fudgy 67% cacao chocolate. Sweet, smoky, buttery and deeply chocolatey—like Benton’s bacon, it’s smoked, but it’s all about the balance. And we figure, if you’re gonna have a drink, you may as well have a smoke.