Soma Roasted White Chocolate

One of our staff favorites! Roasty and toasty and super marshmallowy. When you torch white chocolate... Hot dang, it's good. Remember the roaring campfires as kids, sparking and popping into the night sky the smell of hot sap in the air. The art of roasting marshmallows is real, roasting it just so without lighting it on fire so that crunchy melty layer can slide off and you can start again. Soma’s first space was in a tiny corner of a former whisky distillery. They started off roasting and winnowing cacao beans, refining and conching their own chocolate, spinning gelato, baking cookies, making hot chocolates, and producing a line of truffles. (whew!) A small retail portion would fold out during the day, and like a transformer, fold back in at night. It was here that they started meeting a community of very interesting folks with a healthy appetite for great chocolate. What does SOMA mean? Soma in Sanskrit means “food of the Gods” By coincidence, Theobroma Cacao which is the Latin name