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Golden Bar Award

The Golden Bar award is a cross-category recognition, awarded to the top craft chocolate bars across any submitted category and is the most prestigious award in the world of craft chocolate. Each winner of the Golden Bar award is noted for extraordinary excellence across all judgment categories and represents the best craft chocolate bars in the world.

The Craft Chocolate Awards logo. The top has a curving golden brown "GOLDEN", a larger "BAR" in the middle surrounded by cacao leaves and pods, and a curving "AWARD" at the bottom.

Golden Bar Award (2022)

The Golden Bar award is a cross-category recognition, awarded to the top craft chocolate bars across any submitted category and is the most prestigious award in the world of craft chocolate. Each winner of the Golden Bar award is noted for extraordinary excellence across all judgment categories and represents the best craft chocolate bars in the world.

The Craft Chocolate Awards logo. The top has a curving golden brown "GOLDEN", a larger "TRUFFLE" in the middle surrounded by cacao leaves and pods, and a curving "AWARD" at the bottom.

The Golden Truffle Award

The Golden Truffle award is a cross-category recognition, awarded to the top craft chocolate truffle, bonbon, pavé au chocolat, praline, or similar confection across any submitted category and considered the one of the prestigious awards in the world of craft chocolate. Each winner of the Golden Truffle Award is noted for extraordinary excellence across all judgment categories and represents the best filled chocolate in the world.

   

Featured Awards - 2023

Golden Bar Award

The Golden Bar award is a cross-category recognition, awarded to the top craft chocolate bars across any submitted category and is the most prestigious award in the world of craft chocolate. Each winner of the Golden Bar award is noted for extraordinary excellence across all judgment categories and represents the best craft chocolate bars in the world. Read More +

The Golden Truffle Award

The Golden Truffle award is a cross-category recognition, awarded to the top craft chocolate truffle, bonbon, pavé au chocolat, praline, or similar confection across any submitted category and considered the one of the prestigious awards in the world of craft chocolate. Each winner of the Golden Truffle Award is noted for extraordinary excellence across all judgment categories and represents the best filled chocolate in the world. Read More +

All Awards - 2023

   

Bean to Bar Dark Chocolate Award

Bean-to-bar chocolate designates a chocolate maker who controls the entire bean processing and chocolate making process themselves. This means the chocolate maker buys raw cacao beans and then cleans, roasts, cracks, winnows, and grinds the cacao beans themselves.

Bean to Bar Milk Chocolate Award

Bean-to-bar chocolate designates a chocolate maker who controls the entire bean processing and chocolate making process themselves. This means the chocolate maker buys raw cacao beans and then cleans, roasts, cracks, winnows, and grinds the cacao beans themselves.

Truffle Award

A chocolate truffle is a coated emulsion of chocolate, cream, and other flavorings known as ganache. The coating can be more chocolate, but the classic French truffle dusts the ganache in cocoa powder causing the morsel to resemble the black truffles famously hunted each summer in the French countryside, which lend the dessert its name.

Craft Dark Chocolate (Flavored or Seasoned) Award

Superior quality dark craft chocolate shows off the chocolate bean’s subtle flavors without overpowering sweetness or bitterness. In the past few years, the world of craft chocolate has enjoyed an unprecedented boom in inventive and delighting flavor combinations fueled by the increasingly global and diverse world of craft chocolatiers and chocolate makers.

Craft Milk Chocolate (Flavored or Seasoned) Award

Superior quality milk craft chocolate shows off the chocolate bean’s subtle flavors without overpowering sweetness or bitterness. In the past few years, the world of craft chocolate has enjoyed an unprecedented boom in inventive and delighting flavor combinations fueled by the increasingly global and diverse world of craft chocolatiers and chocolate makers.

Craft White Chocolate Award

Superior quality white craft chocolate's shows off the rich flavors in a bean's cocoa butter. In the past few years, the world of craft chocolate has enjoyed an unprecedented boom in inventive and delighting flavor combinations fueled by the increasingly global and diverse world of craft chocolatiers and chocolate makers.

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