Milk Chocolate Bar Collection
Delight in Firetree’s first ever milk chocolate bars with this delicious collection containing our Solomon Islands, Guadalcanal 40% cocoa milk chocolate bar and the Philippines, Mindanao Island, 50% cocoa dark milk chocolate bar. Both are critically acclaimed and a must-try collection for any milk chocolate fan. Annalisa Barbieri, The Guardian
(This collection contains six 70g bars - 3 x 40% milk, and 3 x 50% dark milk)
Meet the farmer: Our Guadalcanal cocoa farmers are based along the North coast of the island, not too far from the historical Henderson airport. As education is mandatory on all the islands we buy from, after school, all the children are seen playing around the fermentation boxes and cocoa boxes. Our main farmer has four sisters and a wife that help maintain the farm. Each playing a part in the cocoa production – from finance to fermenting - which means it’s a family discussion when our Chocolate Makers goes out there to meet them and check the crops.
The fermenting of our cocoa beans takes place just 50 metres from the main houses and with the smell of acetic acid (vinegar) aroma that occurs during fermenting of cocoa being present during harvest season. Due to the showery squalls that dash in from the South Seas, our farmers are invested in solar drying enclosures in the form of raised drying beds that can be quickly covered with canvas after the 50-metre dash! This form of drying and not fire-drying - allows the true flavours inherent in the cocoa bean to come through without smokiness being a flavour note.
Discover the Island: The island of Guadalcanal, nestled in the heart of the Solomon Islands, is home to some of the finest cocoa from this region. Honiara is the Capital of the Solomon Islands and main port for all exports, including cocoa, coconut, and tuna. The cocoa trees grow in this rich volcanic soil, protected from the midday sun beneath high coconut palms.
Milk 40%:
Unrefined sugar, whole MILK powder, cocoa mass, cocoa butter, emulsifier: sunflower lecithin.
Manufactured on equipment that also processes milk and nuts.
Cocoa Solids 40%, milk solids 23%
Suitable for vegetarians. Kosher certified. Allergens in bold.
Per 100g:
Energy 555 (kcal)/2310(kj)
Fat 36g of which saturates 22g
Carbohydrates 47g of which sugars 45g
Protein 9g
Salt 0.26g
Milk 50%:
Cocoa mass, unrefined sugar, whole MILK powder, cocoa butter, emulsifier: sunflower lecithin.
Manufactured on equipment that also processes milk and nuts.
Cocoa solids 50%, milk solids 23%.
Suitable for vegetarians. Kosher certified. Allergens in bold.
Per 100g:
Energy 554 (kcal)/2302(kj)
Fat 38g of which saturates 23g
Carbohydrates 38g of which sugars 35g
Protein 11g
Salt 0.27g.
