Ingredients are bought at higher prices to ensure the farmers are properly compensated with a stable living income Ingredients: sugar, dried whole milk, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, 8.33% gingerbread (sugar, wheat flour, butter, whole egg, ginger, invert sugar syrup, ginger powder, cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, salt, rising agent (sodium carbonate)), emulsifier (soya lecithin) Once your butter has changed from yellow to golden brown, remove from the pan and cool down over a bowl of ice. Right now there is modern slavery on cocoa farms in West Africa. Things aren’t being shared evenly in the chocolate supply chain. The chain starts with millions of farmers who produce cocoa and ends with the billions of consumers who enjoy chocolate. But what about the bit in the middle? This section is dominated by a handful of chocolate giants that profit from keeping the price of cocoa as low as possible. As a result, farmers are forced to live in poverty. And that leads to illegal child labour and modern slavery. This Tony’s Chocolonely Milk Chocolate Gingerbread Bar is a festive chocolate bar with a difference – find a Fairtrade chocolate Christmas tree hidden in the bar and break it out! With a small hole at the top of the chocolate tree you can even thread through some ribbon and make an extra special chocolate tree decoration - if you can wait that long to eat it!

While the mixer is running add the egg followed by the scraped out contents of the vanilla bean half. Tony’s Chocolonely is working with the goal of applying these principles to their business, and making them transparent and accessible to the industry overall.The aroma is rich and buttery, with just a hint of Christmas spices in the mix. Nutmeg and cinnamon sit at the forefront. What he found was that the cocoa farmers in West Africa, who van de Keuken says provide the major chocolate and candy companies with around 60% of the world’s cocoa, have been subjected to horrific conditions. He found farmers living in poverty, not getting a fair trade for their product, and found that unpaid child labour was being used.

Whether it’s a winter holiday, a declaration of love in February, or a spring celebration with lots of bunnies and eggs, there are instances when some of us like to feel all fancy and buy a big variety box of chocolates. Tony’s Chocolonely is an impact company that makes chocolate. Putting social impact before profit — Tony's Chocolonely's vision is to make chocolate 100% exploitation free. Not just their own chocolate, but all chocolate worldwide.While van de Keuken is no longer running the show from the company headquarters in Pazzanistraat, Netherlands, the dedicated team currently behind Tony’s has continued to work at their goal of making all chocolate slave-free and Fairtrade. I bought two bars. The blue clad bar is the 51% Dark Chocolate Mint Candy Cane Chocolate Bar, while the orange one is the Gingerbread 32% Milk Chocolate Bar. If you’re looking for more of that lovely taste in a 6.35 oz portion size, look no further than the Dark Almond Sea Salt 51% bar. Chop the Tony's Chocolonely milk chocolate gingerbread bar into really small pieces. Place in a medium saucepan with the milk. Heat on medium/high until the chocolate has melted and dissolved. Add the brewed coffee. Tony’s Chocolonely wants to inspire the industry as a whole to make 100% exploitation free the norm in chocolate. They believe that being a better business should be the norm, not the exception. The brand has grown to become the market leader in the Netherlands and its bars are now available almost worldwide, with offices in the Netherlands, USA, UK, Germany and Sweden.

Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Cocoa Mass, Dried whole milk( Milk), 8.3% gingerbread (sugar, wheat flour, butter, whole egg, ginger, invert sugar syrup, ginger powder, cinnamon, clove, nutmeg, salt, rising agent (sodium carbonate)), ( Egg,Milk,Wheat), emulsifier: soya lecithin( Soya), Tony’s Chocolonely isn’t the only ethical chocolate producer on the market. But unlike many other companies, who started out making chocolate for profit and attempted to make a positive impact on the world later, Tony’s approached the issue in reverse. They even have a special certification, Tony’s Open Chain, that other companies can participate in to show they’re following the 5-step philosophy and making a difference. Plenty of smaller companies are already onboard.

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Both bars sounded tasty to me but do the flavours live up to expectations? Should you be ditching those same-old chocolate tubs you always buy in favour of these chocolate bars this Christmas? Should you just get the one or are they both "game changers"? Helping those farmers have access to resources to improve their production, both in terms of ethical efficiency and environmental impact There's a hanging hole at the top of the trees so that you can thread through your own ribbon and hang it on your own Christmas tree, should you wish - so long as your parcel doesn't arrive like mine did with each bar broken into multiple pieces. If you were feeling creative and your bar arrives intact, you'd need a pretty strong branch to support these weighty chocolate bars, and you might want to think twice about this if you have pets. Enjoy this special Christmas treat with a clear conscience, this Fair Trade chocolate provides a living wage to cocoa farmers in its cooperatives and insures no illegal child slavery exists on its farms. 100% slave free. There’s also something to be said for how well these bars are changing our outlook on the chocolate industry.