If you've never heard of cacao nibs before, you're not alone. The name describes the broken bits and mashed-up pieces of the cacao bean, which is one of the main ingredients used to make chocolate.

or use a wooden spoon to gently crush the beans into cacao nibs, which are delicious when served over top ice cream or ...

Then, after smashing the beans against the table, we picked up the resulting shards, called cocoa nibs, and tasted their bitterness on our tongues. When those nibs are ground and melted ...