This chocolate bar is a deliciously rich bar that simply sings! With cacao from Akesson Plantation of Madagascar, Fazenda Camboa of Brazil, and organic cane sugar from Brazil, they craft their 73% Northerner Blend. The chocolate is combined with browned butter from local Rumiano Family creamery to create an ultra-creamy foundation for crunchy roasted cacao nibs and delicate sea salt.
Tasting Notes: Nutty, Tangy, Caramel
Weight: 57g
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Raaka Maple & Nibs 75%
Raaka is devoted to making uncommonly delicious chocolate that captures the brighter, bolder, and fruitier side of cacao. They make every bar from scratch with unroasted cacao beans, sourced from growers they trust and admire. The unique flavour of their unroasted chocolate is part place, part process. They craft their bars in celebration of each cacao origin's unique character. Their chocolate making process values the community of growers, producers, and makers whose livelihoods depend on cacao and chocolate. All of their chocolate is made from scratch, bean-to-bar, in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
This maple-sweetened bar tastes like a brownie straight out of the oven. Rich and smooth on the inside, generously sprinkled with toasted nibs for a crispy and crunchy outside. A longtime factory favorite. Perfect for those looking for alternative sugars.
Tasting notes: Earthy & Fruity
Weight: 50g
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Akesson's Brazil Forastero & Coffee Nibs 75%
Akesson's Organic Chocolate is the first "Tree-to-Bar" chocolate maker. The Akesson family started with a single plantation in Madagascar. Today, Bertil Akesson has expanded the company's cacao network with plantations in Madagascar, Brazil, and Indonesia. If you tried craft chocolate or world-famous chocolatier chocolate, it is likely that it came from one of Akesson's cacao plantations. Akesson's Organic Chocolate bars have won a multitude of awards and is regarded as one of the best craft chocolate bars on the market.
This bar juxtaposes Forastero cacao's fall scented and fruity profile with a subtle crunch from Brazilian Bourbon coffee nibs, lending caramelized malty notes.
Brazilian coffee accounts for nearly one-third of the world's coffee consumption. Known to be less acidic, nutty, and soft, it compliments the cacao without overpowering its natural flavor.
Award: 2016 Academy of Chocolate Silver Winner & 2016 International Chocolate Academy Silver Winner
Tasting notes: Toasted Nuts, Dried Fruit
Weight: 60g
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Amano Macoris 70%
Amano Artisan Chocolate is a small-batch, craft chocolate maker based in Orem, Utah. Amano is an award-winning maker, they make all their chocolate on vintage equipment. Their small batch process allows Amano to control and observe flavor development, making each batch of chocolate not only delicious but unique.
This is one of their newest single-origin bars. Made with beans from the Dominican Republic, this bar has hints of apricot, caramel, brown sugar, and cream all held together with a rich earthy chocolate base.
Tasting notes: Apricot, Caramel, Brown Sugar & Cream
Weight: 85g
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Marou Lam Dong 74%
Marou was one of the first bean-to-bar makers in Asia. When Vincent Mourou left his advertising career in San Francisco, he moved to Vietnam to find himself. This is when Vincent met Samuel Maruta, a banker from France living in Saigon with his wife and two kids. The two had nothing but a blender, an oven, cake tins, and Sam's kitchen. Samuel and Vincent continue to work with a tight network of small farmers who they buy the best quality beans from.
This bar is made from beans grown in the Lam Dong province in the Mekong delta. It’s won numerous awards.
Tasting notes: Balsamic, Bread & Cherry
Weight: 80g
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Manoa Mai'a Banana & Nibs 70%
Manoa is a Hawaiian based chocolate maker. Hawaii is the only state in the USA to grow cacao. The story of this maker began in the labs at the University of Hawaii in 2010 studying cacao as a crop for the state. Manoa started as college students with no money and bootstrapped their business with ingenuity and determination.
This inclusion bar is a new creation by Manoa. This bar features vibrant artwork by local artist Shar Tuiasoa of Punky Aloha and delicate molding inspired by Polynesian tattoo patterns. Together with historical tidbits about each inclusion ingredient, the complete package of flavor, art, and culture create three bars that do more than taste good; this is chocolate with a sense of place. A fruit brought by Polynesian settlers on their long voyage to Hawaii, banana is known as one of the canoe plants - crops essential for island living. Mai'a (banana), was used as sustenance, offerings to ali'i (ruling chiefs), and as medicine.
Tasting notes: Banana, Passion Fruit & Coconut
Weight: 60g
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To get started with craft chocolate, start with our Kekao Box. We search the world for the finest chocolate bars and bring them right to your doorstep monthly.
From rich dark Peruvian chocolate bars to new start-up chocolate bars on the come up, you never know what you’ll get inside the box!
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