The start, cacao beans for our bean to bar chocolate
PURE CHOCOLATE JOY
Our mission is to make the best handmade vegan chocolate using unique cacao varieties from ethical sources combined with only unrefined coconut blossom sugar and nectar.
We love developing our trusted recipes and discovering new beans and flavour combinations.
Our chocolate is vegan, organic, fair traded and free from refined sugars and additives.
Webshop is closed till the 21st of November
what’s happening in the world of Cacao
The world of cacao and chocolate is always moving. Usually it is exciting and refreshing.
Currently the cacao market is in uncertainty. We purchase our cacao direct from South and Central America. Unfortunately bad harvests in Africa has meant that the global prices have gone up dramatically. This rise of prices has spilt over to our origins as well. We were already paying premium prices to our farmers so most of our bars are unaffected.
Our flavoured and caramel bar have one key ingredient that has skyrocketed and we have had to seize production for those lines.
Cacao Bar, Friday afternoons/evenings and Saturdays.
Image: Vintage Mary
Cacao House Stroud
Come and join us for a hot chocolate in Stroud.
We are open
Fridays 10 am – 7 pm
Saturdays 10 am – 5 pm
and for private events
2 Bedford Street - Stroud - GL5 1AY
We want to share our passion and celebrate cacao, pure chocolate and communities.
Our cacao circle is a space connected to our chocolate studio which brings together people to share different cacao knowledges. It is a space where we host events with passionate complementary food experts; share specially selected chocolate varieties, and experience chocolate as a plant food of immense cultural, historical, and spiritual value.
Each month a suite of diverse events will be hosted by specialists. Join our Cacao Circle newsletter to keep updated on what’s happening.
The Maker
Jacques Cöp with a fresh delivery of cacao from Colombia (image Nettie Atkisson)
“Jacques is a chocolate maker with such passion and care for chocolate. Of course, any chocolate maker needs passion, but Jacques pushes the boundaries of flavour combinations for his vegan chocolate bars; including the exceptional beans he sources for his unique range.”
The Dark Chocolatier
OUR PHILOSOPHY
Coco Caravan works only with the best cacao beans there is to find combined with Coconut Sugar.
The combination of pure cacao and the sweetness of the coconut flower gives our chocolate its smooth melt and fantastic clean taste in our bean to bar chocolate bars.
We choose to work with the simplest processes and leave out any additives or preservatives. All our products are completely vegan, dairy free, egg free, gluten free and free of soy additives or emulsifiers.
This pure chocolate is hand crafted in Stroud, UK. A small team works with passion on our range of vegan chocolate treats from fruits dipped in chocolate, caramel filled bars to our speciality bean to bar chocolate that is made directly from the cacao beans.
The sourcing of our cacao is done with 3 principles: environmental impact, social impact and quality, (Planet, People, Profit). We aim to work with indigenous communities and small land hold farmers. We support them in their independence and financial security.
AWARDS & ACCREDITATIONS
ARHUACO 100% : GOLD MEDAL 2019
Jacques meeting some of the Arhuaco people in Bogata - sharing cacao and buying my bag.
Empowering the Arhuaco people to preserve their ancestral lands and cacaos in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia.
Forced into the highlands for centuries by conquistadors, settlers and the coca wars, the Arhuaco tribe has recently returned to their sacred sites at the Colombian coast. On the same land where coca and marijuana fueled the violence of the drug wars not long ago, cacao is now the symbol of peace for the Arhuaco and their neighbours. However, of the little cacao that has survived the passing of times on their ancestral land, the harvest volumes are modest.
CHUNCHO 75%: Gold Medal 2021
Review by Schokomanie
Smells very cool and gingerbread. The taste is as artsy as the chocolate bar and the smell. This chocolate is far away from the mainstream. Instantly stands out a strong bleed perfume roses, lavender, lychee ... really intense. RATING: 4.5 OUT OF 5
Academy of Chocolate feedback
Beautifully moulded, perfectly tempered, great shine, great snap, technically flawless. Fresh vanilla, dried cherries, complex and interesting aroma. Slightly claggy mouthfeel, slight hint of fermentation and farmyard flavours but balanced and integrated well. A range of fruit flavours from berry to tropical. Really interesting and good for an under roasting style.
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