We are proud to present the results of the 2020 VEGAN CHOCOLATE AWARDS Competition.

The International Chocolate Salon Awards for the 2020 VEGAN CHOCOLATE AWARDS are based on the combined total number of votes received by each entrant from the Judging Panel.

The Judging Panel consists of National and Regional Magazines, Newspaper and Blog Editors, plus Topic Experts, Local Chefs and Food Gurus.

The award winners below have the honor of being able to display and use the Official Award Winner title and award logos, as well as use items (such as the Award Winner lapel pin), as well as use Custom Award Certificates, and logo award merchandise.

Best Ingredient Combinations

GOLD

  • EHChocolatier Meltaway Collection

SILVER

  • Tandem Chocolates Coco Passion

BRONZE

  • Treat Dreams Milk Chocolate Peanut Crunch (vegan milk)

HONORABLE MENTION

  • Hu Hu Cashew + Vanilla Bean Hunks

Best Taste

GOLD

  • EHChocolatier Meltaway Collection

SILVER

  • Crack'd Toffee Company Vegan Dark Chocolate Toffee
  • Tandem Chocolates Coco Passion
  • Treat Dreams Milk Chocolate Peanut Crunch (vegan milk)

BRONZE

  • SELEUSS Chocolates Porter di Coco 75%

HONORABLE MENTION

  • Endorfin Foods Golden Mylk
  • Honduras Chocolate Company 80% Cacao Gourmet Dark Chocolate Bar
  • Honduras Chocolate Company 70% Cacao Gourmet Dark Chocolate Bar
  • Hu Hu Gems

Best Texture

GOLD

  • Treat Dreams Milk Chocolate Peanut Crunch (vegan milk)

SILVER

  • EHChocolatier Meltaway Collection
  • Hu Hu Vanilla Crunch Dark Chocolate Ba
  • PLAYin CHOC JustChoc Box Organic Peruvian Cacao Dark Chocolate
  • SELEUSS Chocolates Porter di Coco 75%

BRONZE

  • Honduras Chocolate Company 70% Cacao Gourmet Dark Chocolate Bar

HONORABLE MENTION

  • Crack'd Toffee Company Vegan Dark Chocolate Toffee
  • Hu Hu Cashew + Vanilla Bean Hunks
  • Tandem Chocolates Coco Passion

Most Unique

GOLD

  • Endorfin Foods Golden Mylk

SILVER

  • EHChocolatier Meltaway Collection
  • Treat Dreams Milk Chocolate Peanut Crunch (vegan milk)

BRONZE

  • Tandem Chocolates Coco Passion

HONORABLE MENTION

  • For Pete's Sake Chocolate Coconut Chai Chocolate
  • SELEUSS Chocolates Porter di Coco 75%

Best Dark Chocolate

GOLD

  • Honduras Chocolate Company 80% Cacao Gourmet Dark Chocolate Bar
  • Honduras Chocolate Company 70% Cacao Gourmet Dark Chocolate Ba

SILVER

  • PLAYin CHOC JustChoc Box Organic Peruvian Cacao Dark Chocolate
  • SELEUSS Chocolates Porter di Coco 75%

BRONZE

  • Hu Hu Vanilla Crunch Dark Chocolate Bar

HONORABLE MENTION

  • Endorfin Foods Coconut Cream
  • Hu Hu Gems

Best Milk Chocolate

GOLD

  • Treat Dreams Milk Chocolate Peanut Crunch (vegan milk)

SILVER

  • Endorfin Foods Golden Mylk
  • For Pete's Sake Chocolate Coconut Chai Chocolate
  • PLAYin CHOC JustChoc Box Organic Peruvian Cacao M.lk Chocolate

BRONZE

  • The GOOD CHOCOLATE Double Crunch 54% Vegan Milk Chocolate Zero Sugar

HONORABLE MENTION

  • Endorfin Foods Coconut Cream

Best Flavored Chocolate

GOLD

  • EHChocolatier Meltaway Collection

SILVER

  • Tandem Chocolates Coco Passion

BRONZE

  • Crack'd Toffee Company Vegan Dark Chocolate Toffee
  • Endorfin Foods Coconut Cream
  • Treat Dreams Milk Chocolate Peanut Crunch (vegan milk)

HONORABLE MENTION

  • Endorfin Foods Golden Mylk

Top Vegan Chocolate

GOLD

  • Honduras Chocolate Company 80% Cacao Gourmet Dark Chocolate Bar
  • Honduras Chocolate Company 70% Cacao Gourmet Dark Chocolate Bar

SILVER

  • EHChocolatier Meltaway Collection
  • SELEUSS Chocolates Porter di Coco 75%

BRONZE

  • For Pete's Sake Chocolate Coconut Chai Chocolate
  • Hu Hu Gems
  • Tandem Chocolates Coco Passion
  • Treat Dreams Milk Chocolate Peanut Crunch (vegan milk)

HONORABLE MENTION

  • Crack'd Toffee Company Vegan Dark Chocolate Toffee
  • Hu Hu Cashew + Vanilla Bean Hunks
  • Hu Hu Vanilla Crunch Dark Chocolate Bar

STAR RATINGS

5 STARS

  • Tandem Chocolates Coco Passion

4.5 STARS

  • Honduras Chocolate Company 80% Cacao Gourmet Dark Chocolate Ba
  • Honduras Chocolate Company 70% Cacao Gourmet Dark Chocolate Bar
  • Treat Dreams Milk Chocolate Peanut Crunch (vegan milk)
  • SELEUSS Chocolates Porter di Coco 75%
  • Hu Hu Vanilla Crunch Dark Chocolate Bar
  • EHChocolatier Meltaway Collection

4 STARS

  • Hu Hu Cashew + Vanilla Bean Hunks
  • Crack'd Toffee Company Vegan Dark Chocolate Toffee
  • Hu Hu Gems
  • PLAYin CHOC JustChoc Box Organic Peruvian Cacao Dark Chocolate
  • Endorfin Foods Coconut Cream
  • Endorfin Foods Golden Mylk
  • For Pete's Sake Chocolate Coconut Chai Chocolate

3 1/2 STARS

  • PLAYin CHOC JustChoc Box Organic Peruvian Cacao M.lk Chocolate
  • Tandem Chocolates Cherry Vanilla & Almond

3 STARS

  • Endorfin Foods Matcha Latté
  • The Good Chocolate Himalayan Salt 65% Chocolate Zero Sugar
  • The Good Chocolate Double Crunch 54% Vegan Milk Chocolate Zero Sugar

JUDGES' COMMENTS


FAVORITES

  • Tandem Chocolates Coco-Passion and the Endorfin Foods Coconut Cream
  • Treat Dreams, Crack'd Toffee Company Dark Chocolate Toffee, EH Chocolatiers Meltaways, Seluess Porter di Coco
  • Treat Dreams Milk Chocolate Peanut Crunch

COMMENTS

  • To Endorfin Foods: Endorfin Foods chocolate stands miles apart from most chocolate on the market today. The experience begins with an exquisitely designed envelope, which yields a bar of supremely refined texture and a gastronomic feast not just for the tastebuds but the entire body, for the notes of caramelized coconut milk, cacao and its butter, vanilla, and perhaps a few other elements of surprise, will carry you on multiple waves of healthful bliss long after the last bit melts on your tongue. ~ Birgitte Rasine, author of "The Jaguar and the Cacao Tree"
  • To Tandem Chocolates: There are few things in life as transporting as a refreshing blend of exotic fruit with a hint of citrus, and a delicate shell of chocolate. Tandem Chocolates' Coco Passion will take your palate to places you've never been.
  • Crack'd Toffee - smooth and buttery with no burnt flavor, pairing perfectly with the velvety and rich dark vegan chocolate. EH Chocolatier Meltaways - just yummy! Appreciate the variety of flavors and "melt-in-your-mouth" texture. Seleuss Porter di Coco - delicious subtle flavors.
  • Seleuss Porter di Coco gave me a total chocolatgasm!!...Honduras Chocolate Company's bars were an excellent example of letting top ingredients shine - delicious and complex chocolate!...EH Chocolatier's flavorings were wonderfully vibrant...The Hu Hunks chocolate covered cashews were addictive for munching...Enjoyed the puffed quinoa in the Hu Vanilla Crunch bar...The Crack'd Toffee is remarkably good for a toffee made with zero butter...Play in Choc's nuggets were fudgy and satisfying - and the compostable wrapper was earth-friendly...I'm not a milk chocolate fan, yet really enjoyed the Treat Dreams Milk Chocolate Crunch...
  • Treat Dream TBC - The only chocolate I went back to have seconds after tasting all the chocolate!
  • Tandem continues to hit it out of the park, and EHChocolatier was an exceptional new contender. Treat Dreams was cuteness overload, and I mean that in a good way. Honduras Chocolate Company makes tasty, not bitter dark chocolate with only 2 ingredients. And For Pete's Sake made a "milk" chocolate bar that successfully translated chai tea into chocolate
  • Beautiful design on the EHChocolatier truffles, just gorgeous to look at, almost (but luckily not quite) too lovely to eat! ... AND ... I'm very impressed that Honduras Chocolate Company uses only two ingredients. ... AND ... Seleuss Chocolates has very elegant packaging -- simple yet regal, and of course the chocolate itself is fantastic: would make a very special gift! ... AND ... For Pete's Sake: great product,

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