WHY WE ARE DIFFERENT
To make chocolate, cocoa beans are fermented, dried and then processed into cocoa mass, which looks like chocolate, but is very bitter! Cocoa mass is a value-added product and commands a much higher price than cocoa beans. We aim to buy cocoa mass from factories in Africa and South America, so the added value remains in the country in which the beans are grown. The vast majority of beans are shipped to Europe and processed there by multinationals, who then receive that added value. We import cocoa mass and make it into chocolate to our own recipes here in the UK. We add a small amount of sugar to round off the bitterness, but leave the wonderful characteristic flavours for you to savour. We have a unique process that makes a chocolate powder, without grinding. Our chocolate powder is rich, delicious and high in cocoa solids. It dissolves well in your drink, but the secondary benefit is that it melts really easily too, so is great to use in recipes and for fondues!
FAIR AND SUSTAINABLE
We work with a lot of suppliers in origin countries, who are buying quality beans at fair prices and who process these beans into cocoa mass that we then buy to make into our chocolates. Our suppliers have their own schemes in place to benefit their workers: healthcare, housing, canteens, transport, environmental projects and schooling, for instance, often for the benefit of the community, as well as their own workers. When we buy cocoa mass from them the money we pay supports both the growers and the communities based around the processing factories. We are currently working with our suppliers to help them achieve Rainforest Alliance accreditation.
THE ORDERING PROCESS
All our products are available on-line.
Our West Africa and Ecuador chocolate powders are both available through WAITROSE. Click Here to Find your nearest store.
For Mail Order, payable by cheque, please print off one of our order forms.
For Credit Card Sales, please order through our own page on the Big Barn Marketplace site. Click here to enter the Marketplace..
And don’t worry, we are not going to let your details go to any other company. We hate junk mail and calls too! We are in business to sell chocolate, not information. We want you to indulge yourself with our chocolate and wouldn’t want the moment spoilt by a telesales person.
Our chocolates
AWARD-WINNING PURE DARK CHOCOLATE POWDER
They all make DELICIOUS RICH CHOCOLATE DRINKS, but are also ideal for RECIPES, wherever a good quality dark chocolate is required – and, because our chocolate comes as a powder, it is really easy to use too!
We’ve sourced the finest cocoas from the best growing areas of the world to make chocolates with the characteristic flavours of those regions. From the mellow cocoas of West Africa with their brown fruit notes, to the sharper, spicier cocoas of South America.
To find out more about our different chocolate powders and how to order click here ---->
MELT AND DIP CHOCOLATES
We like a challenge, having been asked to make a gorgeous plain chocolate that would flow around a chocolate fountain, we did just that AND created a chocolate that needs NO OIL adding to it either! Of course, being a powder, it melts easily. Using West African cocoas, the result is a lovely mellow chocolate with gentle sultana notes: an intoxicating chocolate to dip your fruit, marshmallows, biscuits or even fingers into! And if you don’t have a fountain, then try one of our simple to use fondues: there’s even one for the BBQ! Now that really is genius!
To find out more about our different chocolate fondue products and how to order click here ---->
Where can I purchase?
As well as following our order process, you can now purchase our products at Waitrose supermarkets. To find your nearest Waitrose store click here ---->
To find out more, please call us on 0845 0945291 or e-mail us at