5 Brands That Will Ship Gourmet Chocolate To You
Whether you’re into white, milk, or dark chocolate, and whether you like it swirled into baked goods or all on its own, there’s no doubt this is one sweet treat Canadians love to indulge in.
It is derived from Cacao which, in its raw form, is regarded for its medicinal properties in many parts of the world. So chocolate is basically good for you, right?
We’ve rounded up a list of Canadian gourmet chocolate shops that will ship to you:
SoMA Chocolatemaker (Toronto, ON)
Founded in 2003, SoMA was born out of a dream of creating a small, funky chocolate factory finding new ways to create and enjoy chocolate. It has since grown to 2 stores in downtown Toronto, a chocolate factory, and a network of wholesalers. They were one of the first to take on the small batch ‘bean to bar’ chocolate making model.
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BETA5 (Vancouver, BC)
BETA5 takes their name from the form-5 beta crystal structure – the most stable form of cocoa butter crystallization formed through the tempering of liquid chocolate. These chocolatiers regard themselves as melders of art and science, creating chocolate and pastry products working only with directly traded artisanal chocolates and local, organic ingredients whenever possible.
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Alicja (Ottawa, ON)
Formed in 2015, Alicja Confections prides themselves on creating new, weird, interesting, funky, delicious flavours you wouldn’t find anywhere else. Think Blue Raspberry, Cherry Cola, Blueberry Cheerios, and BBQ Corn Nuts. They are famous for inventing the Postcard Chocolate Bar, a chocolate bar you can send in Canada via letter mail for only the cost of one postage stamp. Since 2015, they’ve sent over 20,000 Postcard Chocolate Bars in the mail.
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Temper (Vancouver, BC)
Temper specializes in European pastries, cakes, and chocolates and is a community based pastry shop first. Their Chocolate Gift Boxes take your old classic box of chocolates to new heights, with flavours like Calamansi, Bee Pollen, Lime Margarita, and Negroni Cocktail. This is one box of bonbons that is sure to excite on any special occasion.
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Avanaa (Montreal, QC)
Avanaa is another bean to bar style chocolate maker on a mission to craft epic single-origin chocolates that honour the hard labour of cacao farmers. They import cacao from farms and coops in Central and South America and then harvest, ferment, dry, sort, roast, winnow, grind, conch, temper, and mould it into chocolate – all from their Villeray-based workshop.
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