2024 NZ Vegan Chocolate Awards

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One of the most wonderful foods our planet has to offer is the cocoa bean 😊 Packed full of antioxidants, happy brain chemicals and caffeine, there is much to enjoy about this particular bean. Unlike actual beans, there is not a great deal of protein in the cocoa bean, mostly because it is a seed of the fruit of the Theobroma cacao tree.

The pod shaped fruit is botanically classified as baccate-like (berry-like) and each pod produces approximately 35-50 seeds surrounded by a sweet pulp. The flesh or pulp of cocoa pods can be consumed raw, but the beans inside the pod must be fermented and roasted before they can be eaten. How do they do it? Our Bean to Bar category showcases the extensive effort that goes into turning raw cacao beans into a delicious bar of chocolate.

Our Chocolate Awards are here to show Aotearoa that there are some amazing and quite extraordinary vegan chocolates in various forms. Not only are plant-based milk chocolates becoming much more popular, but there is also a rise in delicious, artisan, hand crafted individual chocolates rivalling the best that dairy chocolates have to offer.

To all our amazing plant-based chocolatiers out there, this is your opportunity to show us the best you can offer! Enter the Awards now and see if your product has what it takes to wow our judges and become the Best in category and even the Supreme Winner? Entries open to any company that produces chocolate that is available in Aotearoa.

Check out last year’s winners here

Categories to enter are:

  • Dark Chocolate bars
  • Milk Chocolate bars (plant milk only)
  • Chocolate Bars; flavoured/ inclusions
  • Filled chocolate Bon Bons and Truffles
  • Caramels
  • Bean to Bar; dark milk/ subs/ flavoured
  • Drinking Chocolate
  • Bark/Brittle Chocolate
  • Dipped Fruit
  • Supreme

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