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October is Fair Trade Month, and this week's featured origin is Ghana 🌍Two bars in this flight, Fresco Ghana Dark Roast ...
10/14/2026

October is Fair Trade Month, and this week's featured origin is Ghana 🌍

Two bars in this flight, Fresco Ghana Dark Roast 70% and Moka Ghana 72%, are made with cacao from ABOCFA, a farmer cooperative in the Suhum region of southern Ghana. Its network covers 13 farming communities, each with three representatives who report to the cooperative's leadership, and members decide together each year where the quality and Fair Trade premiums go. The Moka bar is Fair Trade certified, and its farmers are paid 43% more than local market rates.

Zotter, maker of the Labooko Ghana 72%, uses exclusively organic and Fair Trade certified ingredients. Pralus completes the flight with its Ghana 75%, made from Forastero cacao.

Build your own Ghana flight at barandcocoa.com

It's Maker Monday, and today we're heading to San Francisco to spotlight Dandelion Chocolate Dandelion makes its chocola...
10/12/2026

It's Maker Monday, and today we're heading to San Francisco to spotlight Dandelion Chocolate

Dandelion makes its chocolate with just two ingredients, cocoa beans and organic cane sugar. They source their beans directly, with someone from the team on the ground at each farm, and pay a premium over commodity price.

A few of the producers they work with:
Vicente Norero, owner and general manager of Camino Verde Cacao in Ecuador
Freddy Salazar, general manager of Costa Esmeraldas in Ecuador
Reserva Zorzal in the Dominican Republic, founded to show that a for-profit business can be a viable, economically sustainable driver of environmental conservation

Find the Dandelion collection at barandcocoa.com

Trick-or-treat is almost here 🎃🦇This year, fill the bowl with real chocolate instead of candy. Three mini bars to hand o...
10/09/2026

Trick-or-treat is almost here 🎃🦇

This year, fill the bowl with real chocolate instead of candy. Three mini bars to hand out:

Firetree PNG Karkar 72%, single-estate dark chocolate from cacao grown on Karkar Island, Papua New Guinea
Domori White w/ Pecans, white caramel chocolate with pecans
Domori Milk w/ Puffed Rice, milk chocolate with caramelized puffed rice

Find these and more mini bars at barandcocoa.com

For anyone who loves sweet and salty together ✨Michel Cluizel's Salted Butter Caramel 45% is a milk chocolate bar with b...
10/08/2026

For anyone who loves sweet and salty together ✨

Michel Cluizel's Salted Butter Caramel 45% is a milk chocolate bar with bits of buttered caramel and a dash of Guérande salt, a French sea salt. Cluizel makes it with Bourbon vanilla bean and pure cocoa butter.

Find it at barandcocoa.com 🧡

Crisp October afternoons call for a bar with a little green in it 🍂Auro makes the Reserve Regalo 50% Dark Milk from a s...
10/06/2026

Crisp October afternoons call for a bar with a little green in it 🍂

Auro makes the Reserve Regalo 50% Dark Milk from a single harvest of Regalo cacao grown in Davao, Philippines. It's part of Auro's Reserve Collection, which highlights the distinctive character of Davao's cacao community and terroir.

Look for notes of green apple, green tea, and pine wood.

Find it at barandcocoa.com

As the season shifts, so should your tasting palate 🍂Welcome autumn with a curated exploration of warming spice-infused ...
10/02/2026

As the season shifts, so should your tasting palate 🍂

Welcome autumn with a curated exploration of warming spice-infused chocolate. Craft chocolate makes a natural canvas for complex spices, turning simple warmth into structured, layered flavor.

Swipe to explore four spice profiles, from Aztec cinnamon and chili to a full masala chai blend 👉

Bring these autumn flavors home at barandcocoa.com.

When we think of Peruvian cacao, the mind often goes to bright, dynamic fruit profiles. Cultivated deep within Peru's Am...
09/30/2026

When we think of Peruvian cacao, the mind often goes to bright, dynamic fruit profiles. Cultivated deep within Peru's Amazon, the San Martín terroir delivers exactly this signature vibrancy, but with incredible depth.

Without a single added ingredient, this specific origin yields a crisp and complex flavor architecture. Marana's San Martín bars flood the palate with bright notes of green apple and vibrant red berries, balanced by the concentrated sweetness of black raisin.

Swipe to see the same San Martín cacao butter at work in Raaka's vegan white chocolate line, Strawberry & Cream and Cookies & Cream 👉

Discover the San Martín profile at barandcocoa.com.

The idea that a sophisticated palate only reaches for dark chocolate is a myth.Craft milk chocolate isn't a beginner's s...
09/26/2026

The idea that a sophisticated palate only reaches for dark chocolate is a myth.

Craft milk chocolate isn't a beginner's stepping stone, it takes real skill. Amedei's Toscano Nocciola balances quality dairy, careful caramelization, and Piedmont hazelnuts instead of leaning on tannins the way dark chocolate does. Some makers push further still: Fjåk's Norwegian Brown Cheese bar works goat cheese made from goat's whey right into the chocolate, Qantu's Dreams of Cashmere swaps in goat's milk directly, and Lucid Chocolatier, working out of rural New Zealand, uses sheep's milk in their Dulce de Leche bar, each bringing a tang and character standard dairy doesn't give you.

A well-made 40% craft milk bar can outperform a mediocre 80% dark chocolate.

Rediscover craft milk chocolate at barandcocoa.com.

Gluten-free chocolate doesn't mean giving up flavor or texture ✨Craft chocolate proves it, no compromise on complexity o...
09/24/2026

Gluten-free chocolate doesn't mean giving up flavor or texture ✨

Craft chocolate proves it, no compromise on complexity or texture required. Here are five gluten-free picks worth trying:
☑️ Amano Raspberry Rose 55%: a delicate balance of tart fruit and soft florals.
☑️ Ranger Dark Maple 66%: real notes of strawberry, maple, and molasses.
☑️ Rhyme and Reason Dark & White Passionfruit: dark chocolate layered with passionfruit white chocolate, for a tart-sweet contrast.
☑️ Chocolarder Cornish Honeycomb 50%: milk chocolate bursting with local honey and toffee sweetness over toasted biscuit.
☑️ Fruition Passion Fruit Dark Milk 66%: dark milk chocolate with passion fruit, elderflower, and popping candy.

Explore our gluten-free collection at barandcocoa.com.

It's time to rescue white chocolate from its mass-market reputation 🤍For National White Chocolate Day, we're dismantling...
09/22/2026

It's time to rescue white chocolate from its mass-market reputation 🤍

For National White Chocolate Day, we're dismantling the "white confectionery" myth. Commercial versions often rely on cheap vegetable fats and heavy sugar. Real craft white chocolate is different: it's built on pure cocoa butter, silken and balanced, made to carry flavor rather than just sweetness.

Three expressions worth trying:
☑️ Amedei White Milk Chocolate with Pistachios (29%): silken cocoa butter meets the earthy crunch of DOP Bronte pistachios from Sicily.
☑️ Valrhona Grand Cru Dulcey (35%): toasted milk sugars bring out notes of buttery shortbread and caramelized milk.
☑️ Baiani "All We Need Is Love" (White w/ Rice Crispies): crisp rice against creamy white chocolate, from a Brazilian maker whose proceeds support equality causes.

Celebrate real cocoa butter at barandcocoa.com ✨

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