The Fixer Liquid Assets

The Fixer is the cup that takes care of it, whatever it is. Fig and chestnut folded into the cocoa base with jujube and wild honey, an Irish-cream note over the top, dark and unhurried the whole way down. It’s the least sweet of the fall pours and the most grown, a fig-and-chestnut drinking chocolate that tastes like a favor you’ll owe later. In hot milk it turns deep mauve-brown, smooth and quiet.

The Look: Mauve-dark. The tin mix is a deep muted cocoa with a plum cast. As a melt bar, the chevron sets in dark plum-brown, a fine chestnut-cream dust in the valleys, a scatter of dried-fig flecks along the crown. In the cup it goes deep fig-brown.

Storage

Liquid Assets is a dry shelf product until you add heat. Keep the tin and the bars cool, dark, and sealed — a pantry at 60–70°F (16–21°C), away from the stove, away from a sunny window. Best within 12 months of the seal date. The tin re-seals; press it shut and the mix keeps its bloom. The chevron bars can wear a pale gray cocoa bloom if they warm up and re-set — that’s cocoa butter surfacing, not spoilage, and it melts out clean the second it hits hot milk. Once you’ve prepared a cup, drink it hot; it doesn’t keep and it won’t wait. Contains honey, so keep it from infants under 12 months.

Sustainability

Matte cocoa tins are steel, refillable and endlessly recyclable. Melt-bar window boxes come from recycled paperboard, printed with soy-based inks, the window film compostable where the supplier offers it. Turquoise foil seals are food-grade and aluminum-free where sourced. Cocoa bought whole and ground in-house; dairy solids from regional partners; spices and nuts worked from raw, never bought pre-blended. No artificial colors. No high-fructose corn syrup. The color in the cup is cocoa, cream, fruit, or nut doing the work. Fig paste is shelf-stable and cheap; chestnut stretches the fig; honey in a micro-pour.

Dietary Information

Vegetarian. Gluten-free. Non-GMO. No artificial colors. No high-fructose corn syrup. Contains dairy and honey. May contain tree nuts (chestnut). Alcohol-free — Irish cream and bourbon are flavor notes from food-grade extracts.