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Explore Chocolate crafts the finest quality artisan chocolates, with a focus on single origin and single region cacao. Each creation is handmade in a small batch using high quality products and unique recipes. Our core ethos is to explore the relationship between Flavours and Textures using chocolate from across the planet, whilst promoting sustainable and responsible business practices.

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Our vibrating table is doing its job! Tapping out

Our vibrating table is doing its job!

Tapping out air bubbles in our bars and bon bons like a beast! 💪

A blank canvas Polycarbonate chocolate moulds are

A blank canvas

Polycarbonate chocolate moulds are a must if you want to make bars or bon bons here or at home

In addition to our courses here, we are going to start offering the tools to go ahead and put those skills to practice at home!

You can already find our chocolate flakes, but we've got new retail packs coming ready for Christmas so you have more choice of origins and cacao content

Growing our business means investing in the right

Growing our business means investing in the right equipment, ingredients and people.

This is a vibrating table. It speeds up a very simple part of our process: removing air bubbles from moulded chocolates.

We do this with both bars and bon bons, usually by tapping the moulds down on our workbench until we stop seeing bubbles rise to the surface.

Can't wait to get started with it today!

Bon bon 6 packs For when you just know you love a

Bon bon 6 packs

For when you just know you love a certain flavour! These handy 6 packs are something you can keep for yourself, or share with others. Either way we won't judge 😄

Smoked Blackberry & Lemon, Caramel, and Whisky & Apple are our Dark Chocolate bon bons this season

Available on our website now

Bon bon 6 packs For when you just know you love a

Bon bon 6 packs

For when you just know you love a certain flavour! These handy 6 packs are something you can keep for yourself, or share with others. Either way we won't judge 😄

Pumpkin Pie, Coffee & Doughnuts and Hazelnut Deluxe are our Milk Chocolate bon bons this season

Available on our website now

Bon bon 6 packs For when you just know you love a

Bon bon 6 packs

For when you just know you love a certain flavour! These handy 6 packs are something you can keep for yourself, or share with others. Either way we won't judge 😄

Raspberry Ripple, Rice Pudding and Mango Lassi are our White Chocolate bon bons this season

Available on our website now

Cocoa Nibs This is the part of the cacao seed (co

Cocoa Nibs

This is the part of the cacao seed (cocoa bean) which we use to make Milk and Dark Chocolate.

These are our new Indonesian origin from #berau which will make a 76% Dark Chocolate.

We'll put 24g of sugar for every 76g of cacao into our grinder and process for approximately 30 hours

Cracking Cacao Once the seeds are roasted we brea

Cracking Cacao

Once the seeds are roasted we break them up using a modified grain mill. This separates the outer husk from the rest of the seed, which we call Cocoa Nibs

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Raw Cacao First we check the overall quality of t

Raw Cacao

First we check the overall quality of the seeds. Looking for signs of mould or infestations, flat/undeveloped seeds. We check through for any stones, twigs etc that may have come from the farm.

Then we roast the seeds to develop flavour.

Caramel: Dark Chocolate with Rice Milk Caramel. #

Caramel:

Dark Chocolate with Rice Milk Caramel. #plantbased #vegan and delicious!

One of our new Autumn/Winter range of artisan chocolate bon bons available from this week on our website www.explorechocolate.co.uk

Tag someone who would love these for a chance to win a ticket to our Taste Tuesday tasting session!

Smoked Blackberry & Lemon: Dark Chocolate with 2

Smoked Blackberry & Lemon:

Dark Chocolate with 2 layers. Lemon Pate de Fruits, and Blackberry Ganache smoked over Apple Wood & Rosemary.

One of our new Autumn/Winter range of artisan chocolate bon bons available from this week on our website www.explorechocolate.co.uk

Tag someone who would love these for a chance to win a ticket to our Taste Tuesday tasting session!

Whisky & Apple: Dark Chocolate with 2 layers. Sal

Whisky & Apple:

Dark Chocolate with 2 layers. Salted Apple Caramel, and Whisky Ganache made with @talisker 10 year single malt.

One of our new Autumn/Winter range of artisan chocolate bon bons available from this week on our website www.explorechocolate.co.uk

Tag someone who would love these for a chance to win a ticket to our Taste Tuesday tasting session!

Raspberry Ripple: White Chocolate with Raspberry

Raspberry Ripple:

White Chocolate with Raspberry Pate de Fruits and a rich Vanilla Ganache.

One of our new Autumn/Winter range of artisan chocolate bon bons available from this week on our website www.explorechocolate.co.uk

Tag someone who would love these for a chance to win a ticket to our Taste Tuesday tasting session!

Rice Pudding: White Chocolate with a creamy Vanil

Rice Pudding:

White Chocolate with a creamy Vanilla & Nutmeg Ganache

One of our new Autumn/Winter range of artisan chocolate bon bons available from this week on our website www.explorechocolate.co.uk

Tag someone who would love these for a chance to win a ticket to our Taste Tuesday tasting session!

Mango Lassi: White Chocolate with 2 layers. Mango

Mango Lassi:

White Chocolate with 2 layers. Mango Pate de Fruits, and Yoghurt Ganache.

One of our new Autumn/Winter range of artisan chocolate bon bons available from this week on our website www.explorechocolate.co.uk

Tag someone who would love these for a chance to win a ticket to our Taste Tuesday tasting session!

Coffee & Doughnuts: Milk Chocolate & Filter Coffe

Coffee & Doughnuts:

Milk Chocolate & Filter Coffee Ganache with Brioche Doughnuts blended in.

One of our new Autumn/Winter range of artisan chocolate bon bons available from this week on our website www.explorechocolate.co.uk

Tag someone who would love these for a chance to win a ticket to our Taste Tuesday tasting session!

Hazelnut Deluxe: Milk Chocolate with a Dairy Cara

Hazelnut Deluxe:

Milk Chocolate with a Dairy Caramel centre and Roasted Hazelnut

One of our new Autumn/Winter range of artisan chocolate bon bons available from this week on our website www.explorechocolate.co.uk

Tag someone who would love these for a chance to win a ticket to our Taste Tuesday tasting session!

Pumpkin Pie: Milk Chocolate filled with Spiced Pu

Pumpkin Pie:

Milk Chocolate filled with Spiced Pumpkin Caramel Ganache

One of our new Autumn/Winter range of artisan chocolate bon bons available from this week on our website www.explorechocolate.co.uk

Tag someone who would love these for a chance to win a ticket to our Taste Tuesday tasting session!

New menu drop tomorrow! Bon Bons, Bars and Cours

New menu drop tomorrow!

Bon Bons, Bars and Course updates all coming this week :)

Here's another new origin coming out next week: V

Here's another new origin coming out next week:

Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo was founded in 1925. It's Africa's oldest national park and is home to a quarter of the world's mountain gorillas.

This 75% dark chocolate bar is a super limited edition we're doing using award winning cacao from @original_beans
Proceeds from this cacao go towards saving the few remaining mountain gorillas in this area and original beans have set up an initiative to actively support the people living there, helping protect them from Ebola and bring in a better wage.

I absolutely love the flavour of this chocolate and hope to have it as a part of our range later this year, but for now we have a very small batch for you to try.

Will be on our website to buy from next week

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Best Chocolate I’ve ever had!

Margaret, Northampton

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