Milk Chocolate covered Caramelized Hazelnuts

We start with farm-direct, organic hazelnuts and coat them in layers of our bean-to-bar milk chocolate. They’re perfect for nibbling on road trips and hikes and make wonderful gifts for friends, family, and yourself!

These Caramelized Hazelnuts in Milk Chocolate took a Silver medal in the Americas category of the prestigiousInternational Chocolate Awards!

Ingredients: Milk Chocolate (Sugar* Cacao, Cacao Butter*, Nonfat Dry Milk*, Butter*), Hazelnuts, Sugar*, Cacao Powder*

*Organic

The Beginning – Costa Rica

When Dan Rattigan and Jael Skeffington met at a wedding in 2003, the course of each of their lives changed. After a trip together to Costa Rica, Jael and Dan realized that life in the Midwest just wouldnt do. So they dropped out of graduate school, packed their lives into a 40-foot vegetable oil-powered school bus (converted by Dan), and drove south to Costa Rica. There, they bought an abandoned cacao plantation and started on a very chocolatey journey.

Destination: Puerto Viejo de Limon, a small Caribbean village filled with fisherman, surfers, and expatriates from around the world. Once parked in Puerto Viejo de Limon, Dan and Jael opened a caf and dessert shop, Bread & Chocolate. It was there, in the apartment above the shop that their first son, Sam, was born. It was also there that their interest in cacao became a lifestyle. After a year of studying, playing with chocolate recipes, and serving the good people of Costa Rica, Dan and Jael came to a realization: They are not beach people. But Bread & Chocolate was an overwhelming success, and continues to this day