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Coracao Confections — slow-melted, fair-trade, made for the chocolate-obsessed
A small gift on us — complimentary shipping when your basket warms past $59.
New from the Berkeley kitchen

A slow conversation with cacao.

Slow-melted, fair-trade, hand-crafted in Richmond, California since 2008 — made for the chocolate-obsessed. Begin with our Dubai Bar, a velvety milk chocolate threaded with pistachio cream and toasted kataifi.

Climate Neutral · Employee-Owned · Certified Organic · 18 years in the same little kitchen
Dubai chocolate bar From $6.99 — ships nationwide
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Three gentle doorways into the chocolate.

The most-loved

Eight pieces our regulars keep coming back to.

Pulled from the last quarter of reorders — softly ranked by the people who eat the chocolate, not by us.

Cacao pods opened on a wooden table — Acopagro Cooperative, Huallaga Valley.
From the small kitchen in Richmond

Eighteen years, one cooperative, one quiet promise.

Every bar begins with cacao from the Acopagro cooperative in Peru's Huallaga Valley — a partnership we have nurtured, by name, since 2008. We pay above fair-trade, we visit, and we know the farmers' children.

The chocolate is stone-ground in small batches in Richmond, California, by hands that share in the company they work for. We are employee-owned. We are Certified Climate Neutral. And we are quietly proud that none of this changed when it stopped being trendy.

USDA Organic
Fair Trade Certified
Climate Neutral
100% Plant-Based
Employee-Owned
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A slower morning

The cup before the day begins.

Five minutes, a small saucepan, and a slow stir. Our drinking chocolate is built for ceremony — pure ground cacao, the way it has been served for centuries.

  1. Spoon two scoops into warmed plant milk
  2. Stir slowly until the cacao melts into the cup
  3. Sit by a window. Do not check your phone.
Dark Drinking Chocolate
PURE GROUND CACAO · 8 OZ TIN
From the people who eat the chocolate

Letters we keep tucked in the drawer.

★★★★★

I cried actual tears of joy. After thirteen years of skipping the dessert tray at family dinners, my daughter and I finally have a bar we both can eat — and it tastes like the chocolate I remember from before everything was a label.

Felicia D.
Portland, OR — verified review
★★★★★

I was raised on European chocolate and gave up on the vegan ones years ago. The Black Magic 90% changed my mind in one square. Velvety, slow, a little smoky. I now keep two bars in the drawer at all times.

Rebecka L.
Brooklyn, NY — verified review
★★★★★

I make the drinking chocolate every Sunday morning. It has become a kind of small ceremony in our house — the kettle, the whisk, the cup. My husband, who does not normally notice such things, has started asking for it by name.

Jane M.
Asheville, NC — verified review
Find us in shops
Whole Foods Market Erewhon Rainbow Grocery Berkeley Bowl Bi-Rite Market
Read about us
Bon Appétit Food & Wine The Kitchn VegNews Chocolatier
Certified Organic
USDA Organic since 2008.
Fair Trade
Above-fair-trade with one cooperative we know by name.
Climate Neutral
Every bar's carbon, measured and offset.
Employee-Owned
The people who make it, share in it.
Plant-Based
Dairy, soy, gluten, peanut — gently left out.