Carr Valley Cheese, next town over from us, makes a ‘Cocoa Cardona’ which is out of this world!
“Carr Valley’s Cocoa Cardona cheese is a delicious, unique cheese. The Cocoa Cardona cheese is made from goat’s milk cheese aged for more than 8 months. The cheese is rubbed with cocoa powder, giving it a subtle cocoa flavor with a beautiful brown rind. This cheese comes in a five ounce package, and pairs wonderfully with dark chocolate or your favorite fruit jam! Produced by Carr Valley Cheese of La Valle, Wisconsin.”
They ship, via the Wisconsin Cheese Mart, with many other great cheeses to enjoy:
https://www.wisconsincheesemart.com/products/cocoa-cardona
And I don’t even LIKE goat milk-based cheeses. Or GOATS for that matter. ;)
Commercial goat cheese is made with milk from big goat dairys where the bucks run with the does or are very nearby. The cheese has a rank taste I can’t eat it. I made goat cheese for 25 years. One summer I made 40 pounds of mozzarella, also made finished hard mozzarella, parmesan. If you don’t have a buck and properly take care of the milk there is no taste difference. When there were kids over I would serve milk in a storebought milk jug. No one noticed anything except to say wow delicious milk. Also served goats milk ice cream with the cake. And all our kids were bottle fed very tame, smart as dgs and well behaved. Brag over.....
Diana, Chocolate, and cheese!