Amongst many other fruit trees, vegetables, and edible roots, we also grow our own sugarcane. We tend to our canes with the same care as our coffee.  We often press our canes ourselves to make sugarcane juice but for our tapa dulce, we outsource it to our experienced Tico neighbors. 
 
They spend hours cooking down our sugar juice in a large cast iron wok over a wood burning flame.  Once it has been cooked down it is put in molds to harden.  This creates a delicious sugar that can be used exactly as the granulated sugar you may be used to except this one is more nutritions.  That is because it maintains it’s molasses and other vital minerals.  This sugar paired with our coffee is a perfect match.
 
While it is in solid form, it still has a delicious moisture about it which is evident once you cut into it.  This is probably the freshest (and most nutritious) cane sugar you will ever have.
 
Each sugar is sold in 1 lb incriments.