4 Delicious Bean to Bar Chocolates Made with Honey

By David Nilsen

Try these 4 delicious bean to bar chocolates made with honey!

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Ritual Honeycomb Toffee
Belize 75%
Heber, Utah

Anna Seear of Utah’s Ritual Chocolate knew she wanted to work with local honey as soon as she co-founded the craft chocolate company. She uses wildflower honey from Hollow Tree Honey in her Honeycomb Toffee bar, a 75% dark chocolate made with Belize cacao.

“I knew I wanted to make a bar with honeycomb toffee, so we played around with a bunch of origins with it, and with the Belize cacao, the flavors just worked so well,” she explains in Episode 21 of Bean to Barstool. “The honeycomb toffee is so sweet and sticky, and the Belize is a rich and balanced dark chocolate with lighter fruity notes. Together, the Belize really made the honey flavor pop.”

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Chocolate Conspiracy Blackberry Ginger
Ucayali, Peru
Salt Lake City, Utah

There must be a reason Utah is known as the Beehive State. Chocolate Conspiracy in Salt Lake City sweetens its range of bars exclusively with honey. Their bestseller is a Blackberry Ginger dark chocolate, a 73% bar made with cacao from Ucayali, Peru. In addition to ginger, the bar is infused with 18-year-old blackberry balsamic vinegar for a fruity, spicy, and earthy combination with subtle acidity.

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French Broad Lavender Honey bon bon
Asheville, North Carolina
Asheville Collection

French Broad Chocolates in North Carolina makes some amazing bean to bar chocolate bars, they’re also “bean to bon bon,” producing a line of exquisite bon bons in a variety of collections. Their Asheville Collection includes a Lavender Honey bon bon made with local lavender and local wildflower honey.

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Dick Taylor Bee Pollen and Fennel
Brazil 70%
Eureka, California

Honey isn’t the only delicious product bees provide. This bar from the bean to bar chocolate pioneers at Dick Taylor Chocolate is made with bee pollen and fennel. The citrusy notes of the pollen blend with the floral, spicy fennel for a unique and surprising flavor of summer.

If you want to hear all about the use of honey in bean to bar chocolate making, listen to Episode 21 of the Bean to Barstool podcast. We talk with Anna Seear from Ritual Chococlate and two honey educators from the National Honey Board!

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