Kilian & Close

Buy Chocolate? Kilian & Close Organic handmade chocolates

Kilian & Close is real 'bean-to-bar' chocolate

Kilian & Close is organic, delicious chocolate without milk, without soy and sweetened with coconut blossom sugar. 100% vegan chocolate of high quality!
Bean-to-bar means that Kilian & Close is involved in every step of the production process. From start to finish: the beans arrive at the German chocolate producer, where they are sorted and processed into the tastiest, fair trade chocolate bars. Bringing chocolate back to its essence, that's what Kilian & Close wants to do. Simple recipes with the best ingredients. Completely natural and transparent.

By executing every step in our workshop - from the selection of the beans to the molding of the chocolate bars - we can pay attention to every little detail for all our chocolate. You can taste the care and thought we put into our handmade chocolate in every single piece.

Read more: How is Kilian & Close chocolate made...

  • The raw cocoa beans come from Panama or the Dominican Republic and are carefully sorted in the workshop in Rostock, Germany.
  • This is a time consuming but necessary process. It guarantees the rich taste of the chocolate.
  • The cocoa beans are roasted so that the subtle flavors come to life.
  • Depending on the type of bean and the type of chocolate bar being produced, the temperature and duration of roasting are adjusted.
  • After roasting, the husk is removed and the cocoa bean is ground into cocoa nibs.
  • Under the heavy granite wheels, the cocoa nibs are pressed into a thick chocolate paste.
  • The cocoa butter is mixed with the chocolate paste in a chocolate mixer (a conche). This takes a lot of time at Kilian & Close; two to three days. The longer it takes to mix, the softer and richer the chocolate will taste.
  • The nuts are also roasted in the workshop.
  • The end result is tasted to confirm the high quality of the chocolate.


All Kilian & Close chocolate is without soy and without refined sugars.

  • Dark chocolate, dark and with nothing else (85% Pure Panama)
  • Dark chocolate with almonds and raisins (72% Sicilian almond and Bukhara raisin)
  • Dark chocolate, tempered with coconut milk powder (66% Dark Dominican Republic)
  • Coconut milk chocolate with caramelized walnuts (52% Noix du Perígord)
  • Coconut milk chocolate with roasted hazelnuts (48% Dark Dominican with hazelnuts)
  • Mild coconut milk chocolate, nothing more (45% Pure Panama)
  • White chocolate with roasted pistachios (30% Pistachio Di Bronte)

Kilian & Close is vegan chocolate sweetened with coconut blossom sugar – and depending on the type of chocolate – enriched with nuts, coconut milk powder, cacao nibs, coffee beans and cocoa butter.

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