a short time ago for the first time I have a taste of a roasted cacao drink so it's not hot chocolate and it doesn't taste like it and it's not coffee cuz it doesn't like it but it's roasted cacao so I got myself even more cacao nibs I thought I would never run out of them before but now I do so in this video I'm going to show you how to roast them and get them ready to make in the drink in another video I'll have the video showing you how to make cacao drink it's kind of an elixir start off by preheating the oven to 300 degrees I'm using raw cacao nibs for this and the first time you do this you might want to just do a small amount just put them out on a cookie sheet some kind of baking sheet if you want you can put it on parchment first but you don't have to and we're gonna bake this at 304 12 to 15 minutes you want to check it at 12 minutes because you want to make sure it does not burn 12 minutes probably will be enough you'll start to smell this rich chocolate aroma in your kitchen you don't want to smell it burning so when it gets to be about 12 minutes check them if you don't think they're roasted know if you can keep roasting up to 15 but then take them out and let them cool next we're going to grind now that the cacao nibs have cooled after being roasted I'm going to put them into my coffee bean grinder now you only want to grind these to a coarse grind you do not want them to be finely ground because you don't want them getting through I'm going to be making these in the French press so I just have this is a cheaper brand of it's not for espresso or anything of course espresso is to be really finely ground so this is a coffee bean grinder I got several years ago and that's good enough so now I'm ready to store this or make my cacao drink there's one other thing I want to tell you so I got this bag it's a one pound bag that I got from Amazon when I bought it it was $10.50 I was over at my local Whole Foods just a little while ago they had one brand of cacao nibs for sale an 8 ounce package was $14 so that's $28 per pound so this is a really good deal I'm going to link to it in the description box below so you can check it out as well I have this Krong cacao so close to my nose here it smells so good if you're watching this on a PC I'll have an annotation somewhere around here to click maybe over there to go to the next video that shows how I'm going to make this drink and a French press if you're watching on a mobile device look for the card which is usually coming off that corner where you can go to that video or click the description box below the video and I'll have a link to it there and please subscribe but don't the next video alright so good thanks for watching I've heated just over 2 cups of water entity cuddle to boiling and then you want it to sit for at least 10 seconds and I have a French press here and the rule of thumb is 1 tablespoon