UPDATE: Featured Chocolate; Dutched Cocoa; Bonbons VS Truffles
Some incredible Craft Chocolate Available
Check out the online shop for a growing list of incredible craft chocolate from around the world.
All the chocolate here is made by makers who focus on fairly traded cacao and ingredients. Keep in mind, most fair trad certified chocolate is not high quality, nearly all most high quality craft chocolate is fairly traded, certified or not.
All the chocolate here is made with high quality cacao that is fairly traded, but not always certified. Certified helps more with marketing than it does the people it suggests it helps.
Learn to discern, quality chocolate!
Maker Origin: A-Typica Chocolate is a bean-to-bar maker from France with ties to Martinique.
Made with cacao from the Caribbean.
Ingredients: Cacao Beans, Cane Sugar, Cinnamon, Vanilla, Nutmeg, Tonka Bean.
Suggested Flavour Notes: A very warm and spiced profile that is not too sweet either.
200g (7.05 oz)
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Maker: Allo Simonne based in Montreal, QC, Canada.
Ingredients: Hazelnuts, Organic Cane Sugar, Jaguar Dark Chocolate (70% theobroma bicolor, Organic Cane Sugar, Cocoa Mass, Organic Cocoa Butter, Vanilla Beans), Cocoa Powder, Vanilla Beans, Sea Salt.
The best chocolate hazelnut spread I’ve ever tasted. Tastes like a creamy milky hazelnut spread, but there is absolutely no dairy, so this product is 100% plant-based. The addition of cacao’s cousin, Jaguar beans (Theobroma bicolor) adds that extra creamy and nutty flavour. If you love gianduja, you will need to sit down while eating this. Spread it on toast, crackers, cookies, add it to your fruit or oatmeal bowl, blend it in a smoothie or even hot chocolate. The possibilities are endless. Impeccable. Puts all other chocolate hazelnut spreads you find at grocery stores to shame.
And if you don’t like it? Well, we likely can’t be friends.
220 g
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Maker: Cacaoworks based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Cacao is from the Madagascar Sambriano Valley.
Cacaoworks makes their own black garlic from whole Alberta-grown Russian Red organic garlic. Black garlic originated in Korea, and is made by very slowly “cooking” the garlic over weeks at a low heat until the cloves turn soft and black and taste like a balsamic reduction with garlic. It’s sweet, tart, and one-of-a-kind. Cacaoworks takes their black garlic and pairs it with their Madagascar Origin cacao which is also sweet and tart/fruity. It’s a beautiful and unique balance of aromas and ingredients. Goes wonderfully on a charcuterie or cheese board, and pairs very well with a bright fruity red wine.
Ingredients: Cocoa Mass, Cane Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Black Garlic.
Suggested Flavour Notes: Garlic, Balsamic, Sweet, Fruity, Tart.
60g
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Maker Origin: Carobeans is a bean-to-bar maker from Minnesota, USA. Watch this interview with owner Caroline.
Ingredients: Organic Cocoa Butter, Organic Cane Sugar, Buttermilk, Pineapple.
Suggested Flavour Notes: A beautiful golden tan white chocolate with a sweet creamy toasted buttermilk flavour that melts divinely. For added brightness, there are chunks of sweet dried pineapple on the back which works wonderfully with the cookie flavour of the buttermilk white chocolate.
55g (1.94 oz)
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Maker Origin: Carobeans is a bean-to-bar maker from Minnesota, USA. Watch this interview with owner Caroline.
Made with fine cacao from Kokoa Kamili co-op in Tanzania.
Ingredients: Organic Cocoa Beans, Organic Cane Sugar, Organic Cocoa Butter, Grapefruit Peel, Organic Ginger, Sea Salt.
Suggested Flavour Notes: The already fruity Tanzanian cacao marries well with the fragrant grapefruit peel and spicy ginger.
55g (1.94 oz)
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Maker: Feitoria Do Cacao based in Portugal.
Made with cacao from São Tomé and Príncipe and sea salt from Aveiro, Portugal (Same city as Feitoria Do Cacao).
Ingredients: Cocoa Beans, Cane Sugar, Cocoa Butter.
Suggested Flavour Notes: Intense and Fruity.
50g
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Maker: Feitoria Do Cacao based in Portugal.
Ingredients: Cocoa Butter, Skim Milk Powder, Azorean Whole Milk Powder, Cane Sugar, Green Tea.
Both the matcha and tokujou-sencha teas are grown on a plantation in Miyazaki, Japan, by the Morimoto’s. The matcha is blended into the white chocolate, and the tokujou-sencha tea leaves are added as an inclusion and left whole for their crunch.
Suggested Flavour Notes: A lovely matcha profile that is not too sweet as other matcha bars. In fact, the bar itself lends a more herbaceous/earthy tea flavour as opposed to a typical sweet matcha chocolate.
50g
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Maker Origin: Harvest Chocolate is a bean-to-bar maker from Michigan, USA. Watch this interview with owners Matt and Elizabeth.
Ingredients: Organic Cocoa Butter, Organic Cane Sugar, Almonds, Organic Gluten-Free Oats, Madagascar Vanilla Beans, Lemon, Nutmeg.
Suggested Flavour Notes: A creamy comforting white chocolate with burst of butter and vanilla with just the right amount of sweetness.
50g (1.7 oz)
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Maker Origin: Harvest Chocolate is a bean-to-bar maker from Michigan, USA. Watch this interview with owners Matt and Elizabeth.
Ingredients: Organic Cocoa Butter, Organic Cane Sugar, Almonds, Cinnamon.
Inspired by Grandma’s classic cinnamon custard pie. Simple yet so aromatic and comforting.
50g (1.7 oz)
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New FAQ & Myth Blog Posts
Many people ask me, what is the best cocoa powder? Some people swear by dutched cocoa powder. But has dutched just become a cachet marketing term?
When it comes to chocolate confections, people often ask me, what is the difference between a bonbon and truffle. I’ve seen some very interesting and erroneous ideas floating around. Hint: It has nothing to do with ingredients.
Click on the links below to read more in the FAQ & Myth blog.
Maker Origin: A-Typica Chocolate is a bean-to-bar maker from France with ties to Martinique.
Made with cacao from the L’Esterre plantation in the North East side of Grenada.
Ingredients: Cacao Beans, Cane Sugar from Martinique, Ginger and turmeric caramelized with cane sugar.
Suggested Flavour Notes: Pieces of the caramelized ginger and turmeric are spread across the back of the bar. The more earthy profile of the Grenada cacao balances well with the sharper brighter ginger and turmeric flavours.
60g (2.12 oz)
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