Cocoa Runners

Unwrapping the stories behind the world's best #BeanToBar #CraftChocolate. Join our tasting club, buy your favourite bars, or pick from our chocolate gifts.

[Cocoa Runners @CocoaRunners]

This morning, @pumpstchocolate's Rye Crumb, Milk & Sea Salt bar was included in @guardian's article about the best indie food products out there - and frankly, we're not surprised. What a great bar!

[Andrew Baker @ccAndrewBaker]

Fabulous dark bar from Bahia in Brazil - this is ‘tree-to-bar’ chocolate… made in the farm where the beans are grown. Mild roast, rich and creamy flavours. Via ⁦@CocoaRunners⁩ and terrific

[Andrew Baker @ccAndrewBaker]

This is great - dark choc made with Tanzanian beans by Jitka and Michal Herufek in Moravia in Czechia, and they’ve added bobbles of bee pollen for texture and sweetness and all-around wholesomeness. Via ⁦@CocoaRunners⁩ and darn fine

[Dormouse Chocolates @Dormousechocs]

Crowdfunder by our friends at Uncommon Cacao https://t.co/1w7cnGzQsL

[CocoaRetreat @CocoaRetreat]

Will it be the Chuncho 73% or the Idukki Hills 73% for your best ever chocolate mousse? Come along and try a piece of each @PenshurstPlace on Saturday! #servingsuggestion
#beantobar #singleorigin #smallbatch #craftchocolate #bankholiday #treat

[Cocoa Runners @CocoaRunners]

🎓🍫 Our brand new chocolate education programme launched with a trial run recently. It was a great success, and we're delighted to be rolling out more courses through 2024.
Read about our launch in our latest blog post: https://t.co/A7MLxVXoxe

[Cocoa Runners @CocoaRunners]

@KnoopsChocolate Very exciting! Hopefully a big summer hit, and a flavour experience that helps people fall more in love with cocoa!

[Knoops Chocolate @KnoopsChocolate]

There’s something new on the menu this summer: the Cocoa-fruit frappé 🧊

It’s got ‘cocoa’ in the title, but the similarity with chocolate ends there. That’s because the cocoa-fruit frappé isn’t made from cocoa beans: it’s made from the fruit pulp that surrounds them

#knoops

[Andrew Baker @ccAndrewBaker]

Insanely pretty and deeply delicious dark bar made with beans from the Rwenzori Mountains in Uganda, crafted with care by Rozsavolgyi of Budapest and very fine

[Cocoa Runners @CocoaRunners]

@lolawajs Thank you for sharing! We're delighted that we've helped you along your craft chocolate adventure!

[Cocoa Runners @CocoaRunners]

@sortedfood You can find the work of some of the best UK craft chocolate makers here: https://t.co/fEXqX7Ehra

[Andrew Baker @ccAndrewBaker]

This is a delicious and complex bar of dark choc made in Valladolid in Spain with beans from the Qori Warmi women’s cooperative in Vraem in Peru. Notes of berries and tobacco and a long finish. Purchased from ⁦@CocoaRunners⁩ and worth every penny

[Nerea Chocolate @nereachocolate]

Buenas noches con Theobroma cacao.

[Nick Saxby @NickJSaxby]

🇸🇱 More examples of cacao uniting forests and farmer livelihoods:
https://t.co/Io7Ou8ZEHD
🍫🌍 That this is possible but not normal is astonishing. Every bite of chocolate could benefit the planet.

[Nick Saxby @NickJSaxby]

The bulk of chocolate's emissions problem is the conversion of tropical forest to cacao farming.
In craft chocolate, cocoa beans originate from agroforestry systems, where productivity is harmonised with biodiversity. There are even some chocolate bars which are carbon-negative!

[Andrew Baker @ccAndrewBaker]

This beautiful bar tastes as good as it looks, which is really saying something. It is made in Cornwall by the excellent folk at ⁦@chocolarder⁩ with beans from Les Femmes de Virunga in DR Congo, a long-established cooperative. Very fine

[Cocoa Runners @CocoaRunners]

🔮🍫 What does the future hold for cocoa and chocolate?
Spencer shares 12 predictions in his latest blog post:
https://t.co/HS5U8TlFyl

[Grenada Chocolate Fest @GrenadaChocFest]

The countdown begins! Just one week until the Grenada Chocolate Festival kicks off. 🍫 Make sure you don't miss out on the chocolatey goodness – get your tickets now on https://t.co/CEWwgPXhmM and https://t.co/N8nso6F7VZ!

#GrenadaChocolateFest #Grenada #PureGrenada

[Andrew Baker @ccAndrewBaker]

Known to devotees as The Caramac of the Gods… ⁦@Dormousechocs⁩ achieve the golden colour and rich caramel flavour in this ‘white’ chocolate by toasting whole milk powder. Genius

[Cocoa Runners @CocoaRunners]

🍫🇬🇩 A nice focus on L'Esterre in Grenada in this week's #NotesOnChocolate column.
We've enjoyed craft chocolate made with L'Esterre's lovely beans before, but @AnnalisaB gets to sample on their own-made chocolate buttons.
https://t.co/NuiZcmJ10I