Stop press! Our Molasses & Brown Butter Caramel has also won a 2 Star Gold Great Taste Award! The judges LOVED this chocolate and their feedback includes such comments as; "the caramel is outstanding - full on cream and buttery goodness with a hint of salt to edge you away from the sweet. So very well balanced"
We were delighted to win a clean sweep this year with all 4 of our entries in the British Craft Chocolatier Competition round of the International Chocolate Awards winning a gong. This takes our total number of awards won to date to 112, all proudly handcrafted here in Dorset.
The International Chocolate Awards are rigorouly judged by a panel of chocolate experts and all entries are judged blind (like the Great Taste Awards) which is hugely important to avoid any brand bias. Our results were posted with the results from the other European competitons and we understand that our winners will be eligible to be entered into the World Finals later this year - we will probably enter the Molasses & Brown Butter Caramel as it is a Gold Winner!
The Molasses & Brown Butter Caramel was created by our development chocolatier Tim for Christmas last year and has been hugely popular with our customers, so we were very pleased to see it win Gold in these awards. It also won a Special Award for our interpretation of a classic caramel chocolate.
We handcraft the caramel here at Chococo, browning the butter by hand before mixing with muscovado sugar, local fresh Dorset cream from Craig's Farm Dairy near Weymouth and black treacle. The resulting rich buttery caramel is just delicious!
Each chocolate is then decorated by hand by Jacqui and her team with cocoa butter naturally coloured with curcumin and a touch of edible bronze shimmer (which really should be gold given its podium position!).
We hope you enjoy tasting these caramel chocolates as much as the International Chocolate Award judges did and that you agree with their decision to award it a Gold.
Chococo's COCOA powered Promise...
This is chocolate for change. Slave-free, palm oil-free, less sugar, directly traded, totally sustainable and utterly equitable, not only is our chocolate officially delicious, it’s choc full of soul too. We don’t believe anyone else can match our COCOA powered promise…
Colourful
We’re a kaleidoscope of flavour and colour. Truly fine chocolates and as the Evening Standard once put it, “each one is like a miniature piece of art”. In 2024, we asked customers to describe our boxes, bars, novelty shapes, brownies and hot chocolate… the most common words were “innovative”, “delicious”, “ethical”, and “fun”.
Original
We’ve been handcrafting in the UK since 2002 and will always do so. We believe we were one of the first, if not the first, UK artisan chocolatier to pioneer making truly fresh chocolates using locally sourced seasonal ingredients. We’re an independent brand and believe that has always helped us produce chocolate with soul.
Conscious
We’re proud to work with our direct trade partners to produce chocolate that adds value to the local economy, is slave-free, palm-oil free, high in cocoa, low in sugar, and completely sustainable. 100% of our packaging is plastic-free and either recyclable or compostable too, and we support sustainability projects across the world.
Open
We strive to make the world of chocolate more open, opening up knowledge on cocoa and sugar, opening up opportunities for our partners, and opening up flavours for our customers with new products at prices that we aim to keep as low as possible, which only change when our supply and labour costs change significantly.
Award-winning
We’ve won 128 national and international fine food awards so far, with 77 Great Taste Awards including in 2023 for our signature milk and dark chocolates. We only enter awards that are blind judged, to benchmark ourselves, learn from the feedback of judges, and use those learnings to constantly improve.
Ingredients: Colombia origin milk chocolate: 47% (min) cocoa solids, 23% milk solids (sugar, cocoa mass, cocoa butter, whole milk powder, sunflower lecithin, natural vanilla), light muscovado sugar, glucose syrup, Dorset fresh cream (milk), butter (milk), black treacle. Decorative finishes: natural colour & edible shimmer (cocoa butter, iron oxides, curcumin)
Allergy Advice: For allergens, including cereals containing gluten see ingredients listed in bold
Handcrafted in our Dorset chocolate kitchen which also handles nuts, soya & gluten, so may contain traces.
Storage Advice: Store in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight and strong odours.
Nutritional Information per 100g: Energy kj 2033.15, Calories kcal 485.76, fat 29g 9of which saturates) 17.99g, Carbohydrates 51.2g (of which sugars) 41.58g, Protein 3.51g, Salt 0.24g
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