About Us

Hello world!

Cocoa Cult was born by a father and son who where both equally obsessed with chocolate. We were always big fans of Lindt, but we noticed something strange. The beautiful Lindt Santas that came out every Christmas tasted vastly different and better from other Lindt products. After some investigation, we discovered that the Santas where being manufactured in Germany and used a better quality bean than the typical Lindt products manufactured in America.

We just wanted more of that Lindt chocolate Santa taste! So we began to order more and more chocolate from places like Switzerland, and our chocolate snobbery grew all the stronger.

Stuck in the house during the pandemic in 2020 we began to experiment with ordering our own beans and making our own chocolate. Following 'Craft Chocolate TV", hosted by Dylan who founded the wonderful Manoa chocolate (we can't recommend that brand enough), we started our first batch in the summer of 2020. 

The chocolate churned and churned for three days on the tiny stone melanger we bought, and then finally we poured it into peanut butter cup molds. The family created fresh peanut butter from local wildflower honey and stuck it into the open faced cups we made. 

We'll never forget the first taste. 

Mom's draw dropped. She let out an audible gasp. 

My dad and I tasted it next. 

And it was unlike any chocolate we'd ever tasted. There were just so many flavors, a deep dark and absurdly strong chocolate expresso taste, along with an incredibly build vortex of citrus, fruit, and honey. 

Fortunately, or unfortunately, we were hooked. Like graduating from a cheap vodka in college to a brand like Grey Goose, or from a boxed wine to a $200 bottle of wine, our taste buds where forever corrupted! You just can't go back!

Our goal is to make amazing craft chocolate versions of the products we still love that we grew up with. We just want to make the stuff that we ourselves want to eat.

We hope you join us on this craft chocolate journey and support all the craft chocolate brands (there's a ton of good ones out there!).