Willie’s Cacao – Sea Kissed Almond, Milk Chocolate 44%

About the bar

Sweet, creamy, and salty, this 44% milk chocolate bar from Willie’s reminds us of an almond pastry with an extra salty hit, or sweet and salty popcorn. The milk chocolate is smooth, and the crunch from the almonds adds delicious texture.

About the maker

You may remember Willie Harcourt-Cooze as the larger-than-life character behind Channel 4’s “Willie’s Wonky Chocolate Factory” back in 2008. The series followed Willie from his cacao farm in Venezuela through his roller coaster ride setting up his bean-to-bar chocolate factory in Devon.

Willie is a true pioneer of the artisan chocolate movement in the UK, and the first of the modern independent bean-to-bar makers. His passion is to open people’s eyes to real chocolate. By this he means chocolate that really brings alive the flavour characteristics of the great single-estate beans that he uses. The recipe is simple – cacao, natural cocoa butter and raw cane sugar – no vanilla and no soya lecithin, nothing that can get in the way of the flavour of the beans.

The beans

Sourced from the Rio Caribe region of Venezuela, these cacao beans are Trinitario variety, grown in the rich coastal soils of the Paria Peninsula. Renowned for their aromatic depth and naturally nutty, coffee-like notes, Rio Caribe beans are carefully fermented and sun-dried to enhance their full flavour potential. This region is celebrated for producing some of the finest cacao in the world, cherished by bean-to-bar makers for its balance and richness.

Allergens*

Milk, nuts

Ingredients

milk chocolate with raosted almonds and sea salt. cocoa solids: 44% minimum. ingredients: raw cane sugar 29.5%, cocoa mass 21%, milk powder 17%, almonds 16%, , cocoa butter 16%, sea salt 0.5%

*Allergen advice: We directly import, and purchase, all products from independent makers and have these shipped by our partner warehouse (which is not certified allergen-free), and so we cannot guarantee that any product will be allergen-free. Even where an allergen is not listed, products may have been produced, shipped, or stored in facilities which handle allergens.

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