Pine, in chocolate? Aren’t they just for dressing in lights and baubles for December?

The first time we tried pine needles, we were blown away by the flavour and knew it would pair incredibly well with chocolate. I actually first ate pine at a feast on Bodmin moor, 12 years ago. We were served toasted marshmallows which had pine needles running through them, it was fascinating and delicious. We settled on the Seram Island cocoa beans, their mellow cocoa flavour allows the new spruce shoots to shine.

After foraging the fresh shoots here in Cornwall, we freeze dry and grind them into cocoa butter which is then combined with the dark chocolate to make a pretty special and wonderfully wintery bar.

Tasting Notes

Rich brown fruit and citrus, with herbal notes and an almost minty finish.

Ingredients

Cocoa beans, unrefined raw sugar, cocoa butter, pine needle.

70g

Chocolarder is one of a handful of bean-to-bar chocolate makers in the UK, and the only one based in Cornwall. Everything that comes out of our factory is made with only the best ingredients, sourced locally where possible, in the seaside town of Falmouth.