Spring Cacao Recipe: Our Liver-Loving Cacao Elixir

Love your Liver this Spring

This liver-loving cacao elixir is the perfect way to show your liver some love - especially as it’s working around the clock to filter out toxins and keep your body in balance!

Prepared with the grounding properties of dandelion root, milk thistle, and warming spices, and blended with our ceremonial cacao. This elixir invites softness and presence, opening the heart to create space for gentle release on physical, emotional, and energetic levels.

Dandelion is known for its bright yellow spring flowers, but in this recipe we’ll use the root. A traditional herbal ally, known to support liver detoxification and stimulate bile flow - a crucial function to break down fats. A favorite addition is milk thistle, a time honoured liver tonic that can protect and even regenerate the liver.

To round it out, we’ve added warming spices of cinnamon, turmeric & ginger, for a comforting flavour, and to stimulate circulation and digestion - further aiding in the body’s natural detox pathways.

Read our full Cacao and Cleansing journal to find out more.

Ingredients:

1 tablespoon Ceremonial Cacao
1 teaspoon Dandelion root
1/4 teaspoon each of Cinnamon, Ginger, Turmeric
1 cup filtered water
(Optional): Reishi, burdock, or milk thistle tincture and / or maple syrup to sweeten

Directions:

Add dandy to 1 cup of water and bring to a boil. Simmer for several minutes, then strain.
Place ground cacao and spices into your cup.
Add a small dash of the dandy decoction to your cup, stirring until smooth.
Gradually keep adding the decoction in small amounts - stirring to incorporate until smooth.

You can add a touch of maple syrup for sweetness if you like OR TRY a month with no sweetener! You can find out more about the benefits of ‘naked’ cacao from our in-depth Flavour Alchemy journal.

Be sure to follow with a glass of water to keep yourself hydrated and help flush out any toxins.

May this Cacao Liver Elixir help clear out toxins and stagnation and create space for clarity and fresh energy to emerge.