


From top: Hazel Mountain Chocolate, Burren, Co Clare; Hazel’s Mince pie truffles: Hazel collage.
Give the gift of Irish-made nom.
Darragh Conboy writes:
Hazel Mountain Chocolate, based in the burren Co.Clare. We’re two years old as a business, and we directly source top quality grades of cacao from cacao plantations in South America and Africa, and every aspect of manufacture we control ourselves, unlike choclatiers who import premade chocolate.
We make our chocolate in very small batches using rare Trinitario cacao beans and raw cane sugar for our dark chocolate and Irish milk from grass-fed cows in our milk chocolate delivering you the finest, purest and multi-award* winning chocolate.
Our team of chocolate makers begin by hand roasting, cracking and winnowing cacao beans before stone grinding it for 40 hours. We then age our chocolate for further 3 weeks before our chocolatiers create our award winning range of bean to bar chocolates. You can’t just rush the process of making the world’s best chocolate.
Hazel Mountain Chocolate shop here
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