Enter the AoC awards
Entries are invited for the seventh Academy of Chocolate Awards, which will be taking place in February 2015. The winners will be announced during April 2015.
The Awards attract entries from producers all over the world and recognise some of the finest chocolates. The Academy supports the Awards with a PR campaign to raise the profile of winning products and to encourage consumers to appreciate better quality chocolate and learn about its origin. The Awards will be judged by the Academy of Chocolate and by a panel of international journalists, chefs, pastry chefs and experts in chocolate and food.
If you would like to enter the Academy of Chocolate Awards 2015, please go to www.academyofchocolate.org.uk
The Academy of Chocolate was created in 2005 by five of Britain’s leading chocolate professionals, united in the belief that eating fine chocolate is one of life’s great pleasures. Their aim is to campaign for better chocolate and to promote a greater awareness of the difference between fine chocolate and mass-produced chocolate confectionery.
The aims of the Academy of Chocolate are:
to encourage chocolate lovers to ‘look beyond the label’ in order to differentiate between real chocolate and chocolate confectionery
to improve the standard and knowledge of chocolate by promoting an understanding of the ingredients of chocolate, throughout the chain, from tree to bar
to encourage the transparent sourcing of cocoa beans from the plantation alongside socially and environmentally aware production.
Fine chocolate is defined as containing at least 60 per cent cocoa solids for dark chocolate, 30 per cent for milk, containing no vegetable fat other than cocoa butter, no artificial additives or flavourings (including vanillin). The quality, provenance and treatment of the cocoa beans must all have been considered in the production process. Filled chocolates or products using other ingredients should follow the spirit of the definition of fine chocolate. Members of the Academy of Chocolate are committed to ethically sourced chocolate.