There is a small business tea-maker whose herbal teas and unsweetened cocoa blends I've been enjoying for the last couple years, but she unfortunately seems to have stopped making product. So I'm attempting to replicate my favorites based the ingredients list. Yesterday at Whole Foods I found powdered versions of all the mushrooms on the list, so my first attempt was this morning. The original version includes some other powdered herbs and roots, but they are further down in the list, so I figured I'd attempt it with just mushroom powders and unsweetened cocoa powder first (because EXPENSE) and make notes from there.
The blend I'm trying to recreate calls for about 2 tsp of mix to make a cup of cocoa, so this morning's attempt was 1/4 tsp each of lion's mane, cordyceps, reishi, and chaga powders, and 1 tsp of unsweetened cocoa powder. These are much smaller than the servings listed on the mushroom powder bags and also much smaller than the amounts that studies on the NIH website indicate can cause any sort of kidney or other health problems. (I drink these sorts of things on a regular basis, so it was important to me to make sure I wasn't overdoing anything.) I dissolved my blend in about half a cup of boiling water and then topped with unsweetened soy milk like I do with the blends the tea maker sells. It doesn't taste mushroomy or even particularly earthy like I'm used to, but it's also not very chocolatey. It's a bit more watery than anything. Next attempt I'm going to actually buy cacao powder and see if it's richer. I don't know anything about cacao powder, but the blend I'm trying to emulate was definitely a darker color like coffee and definitely referred to "cacao" rather than cocoa. All in all, it's drinkable, so not a bad first attempt.
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