Chocolate Maker

Caputo’s expansive collection of 50 craft chocolate brands centers around a single unifying theme: cacao beans of respectable provenance. As advocates for craft chocolate, we fight for makers whose chocolate is not only exceptional, but whose dedication to farmers’ quality of life is strong. We offer free shipping on all chocolate, all year long.

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Because our passion for craft chocolate is centered on sharing it, we offer free shipping on all chocolate, with no minimums.

Holiday Products

We have a number of holiday offerings – private online tasting classes featuring chocolate, cheese, and regional specialties (Tour of Italy, for example); Caputo’s Party Kits (party boxes filled with cheese, chocolate, and salumi sent to each attendee’s door, with a Caputo’s MC over zoom to lead the event with trivia and games); and our beautiful Gift Collections (featuring meat and cheese and chocolate spreads, or focused on chocolate exclusively).

Guided by their mission to source with integrity and craft with love, French Broad Chocolate builds direct relationships with sustainable farmers and producers. It transforms fine cacao beans into craft chocolate in their experiential Chocolate Factory in Asheville, NC. Bean-to-bar to bonbon and beyond means they create not only their artisan chocolate bars but also an essence of confections and treats featuring their chocolate paired with local, fresh, and organic ingredients. French Broad Chocolate is a Certified B Corp, a certification demonstrating their commitment to being people who use business as a force for good.

At Ecuakao, we love chocolate. That is why we strive to provide only the highest quality cocoa products, manufacturing according to international standards for the best practices.

Kahkow is a store, a workshop, and a space that showcases the best in the farm-to-bar industry. It is a one-stop-shop for craft chocolate makers and prosumers in quest of the finest ingredients for their creations. We’re proud to present cacao and chocolate lovers the richness and the infinite possibilities offered by real farms in the Dominican Republic. “One cacao bean does not represent an entire country, where there can be thousands of varieties”. We are very excited to share our chocolate creations with the rest of the world”.

Our concept store is now open from Tuesday-Sunday | 10am-5pm You can also order ahead & pick-up or have #kahkow shipped

A special thanks to the FCIA for supporting us since the beginning, and for helping us introduce our craft in the US while making it feel like home.

To see FCIA’s 2019 reception at the Williamsburg store, visit our FB page: https://www.facebook.com/pg/kahkowusa/photos

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Castronovo is a fine-flavor chocolate maker led by Denise Castronovo. Denise sources cocoa beans from indigenous people to improve their livelihood, promote peace, and protect their rainforest home. Her mission is to allow the flavors in her chocolate to delight you and create a memorable sensory experience. Castronovo’s artisanal craft has been recognized worldwide, earning top accolades from the World Finals of the International Chocolate Awards, the “Golden Bean” award from the Academy of Chocolate in London,  Good Food Awards, New York Times, Washington Post, Academy of Chocolate, Huffington Post and Zagat.

Small batch handcrafted bonbons, bars and baking chocolate for people on the keto low-carb diet, diabetic or those who want healthier zero-glycemic choices. All chocolate begins with cocoa mass or nibs to make non-sweetened TOTALLY! chocolate or subtly sweetened with erythritol called MonKKey chocolate.

Conexión Chocolate is a premium chocolate company, offering high quality single-origin chocolate made with heirloom and Nacional cacao directly sourced from farmers cooperatives. Each recipe starts on the farm, where we source the finest cacao beans directly from farmers cooperatives, and develop flavor profiles suited to each unique single origin. We offer couverture to chocolatiers and chefs and bars to consumers and grocers.

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We make bean-to-bar chocolate sweetened solely with raw honey. All ingredients are sourced responsibly from our trusted suppliers where they are crafted in Saint Louis, Missouri. All of our packaging is biodegradable and compostable.

Our mission is to empower farmers and restore the environment. We do this by ethically sourcing coffee and cacao, creating jobs on our farm in Cameroon, and planting a tree for every product sold. Born as a community farming project in Cameroon, Africa, Moka Origins has since grown into a brand with a passion for crafting small-batch chocolate and coffee. Whether grown at our farm or ethically sourced from our partners around the world, our beans generate real social change.

Enjoy 15% for being an FCIA friend.
Discount code:  FCIAMOKA15 15% off sitewide. MokaOrigins.com The code is valid from 11/12 to 12/1.

We strive to create fine artisan chocolate while helping the community of cocao farmers all over the world.  Our chocolate has only two ingredients, cacao beans and sugar, and our beans and sugar are sourced with organic and fair trade certification from our suppliers.  Every chocolate is unique and brings its own ‘magic’ through flavor and mouthfeel.

Woman-owned and women-powered, Seattle Chocolate is known for the meltaway center that gives our signature truffles and truffle bars a mouthwatering bite, every time. Crafted to brighten your day, we take care of every detail; from ethically sourced cacao and fun flavors to packaging designed by independent artists we love.

Villakuyaya is a woman-owned company that is engaged with sustainable agriculture to guarantee organic practices, partners directly with a cacao farmers association in Ecuador to strengthen fair trade. Chocolate pure and tea inclusion flavors.

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15% in orders up to $50

Lake Champlain Chocolates’ handcrafted chocolates capture the essence of Vermont, the tradition of craftsmanship, over 35 years of expertise, and the passion for quality, in each irresistibly delicious bite.

To’ak uses one of the rarest and most prized cacao varieties on earth to produce limited editions of single-origin Ecuadorian dark chocolate. Editions are differentiated by appellation, individual harvest years, and different aging methods. To’ak’s most revered editions have been cask-aged for up to four years, with exquisite packaging made by hand in Ecuador. To’ak makes its chocolate from tree-to-bar. The company pays farmers between 3-8x the local farmgate price to grow fine flavor cacao. The company co-fund a conservation program for heirloom cacao.

We’ve found the ‘sweet spot’ where art and confection collide. Our signature chocolates are handmade and hand-painted in small batches.

Cacao grower & chocolate maker in Davao City, Philippines.

We make tree-to-bar fine chocolate from cacao beans grown on our farms—Puentespina Farms.  The entire process of sowing, tending, harvesting, fermenting, drying, sorting, roasting, and producing the chocolate is done right on our farm, giving our products a more distinctive and pronounced taste.   Beyond making fine flavor chocolate, we also serve as a supplier of fine flavor beans.

Small batch artisan craft chocolates made from tree-to-bar in south Taiwan. Awarded the best dark chocolate and record-breaking 28 awards in 2019 International Chocolate Awards World Final.
Signature products: TEA CHOCOLATES, DARK CHOCOLATES, CHOCOLATE ICE-CREAM.