Best Côte d'Ivoire Chocolate
The 29 best Ivorian chocolate bars on Chof made with cacao from Côte d'Ivoire, ranked by the Chof Score.
Makers list the cacao as Forastero. Typical flavour: roasted cocoa, mild bitterness, low acidity.
Ranked by the Chof Score
- Rank 1:
BonnatCôte d'Ivoire 75%
75%darkCôte d'Ivoire1 award - Rank 2:
Tony's ChocolonelyWit
28%whiteGhana & Côte d'Ivoire - Rank 3:
Tony's ChocolonelyWhite Raspberry Popping Sugar
28%whiteGhana & Côte d'Ivoire - Rank 4:
Tony's ChocolonelyDark Milk 42%
42%milkGhana & Côte d'Ivoire - Rank 5:
Tony's ChocolonelyMilk Chocolate Nougat
32%milkGhana & Côte d'Ivoire - Rank 6:
Tony's ChocolonelyMilk 32%
32%milkGhana & Côte d'Ivoire - Rank 7:
Tony's ChocolonelyMilk Hazelnut
32%milkCôte d'Ivoire & Ghana - Rank 8:
Tony's ChocolonelyHartstikke Dol Op Jou
32%milkGhana & Côte d'Ivoire - Rank 9:
magicCrunchy Hazelnut Butter 70%
70%darkGhana & Côte d'Ivoire - Rank 10:
Tony's ChocolonelyMilk Caramel Biscuit
32%milkGhana & Côte d'Ivoire - Rank 11:
ALI šokoladinėAlunga
41%milkCôte d'Ivoire - Rank 12:
Tony's ChocolonelyAmsterdam Milk Caramel Sea Salt
32%milkGhana & Côte d'Ivoire - Rank 13:
Tony's ChocolonelyMilk Caramel Puffed Rice
32%milkGhana & Côte d'Ivoire - Rank 14:
Tony's ChocolonelyMilk Caramel Sea Salt
32%milkGhana & Côte d'Ivoire - Rank 15:
ÜlkerMilk Chocolate with Pistachios
milkCôte d'Ivoire - Rank 16:
ValrhonaAbinao 85%
85%darkTogo, Côte d'Ivoire & Ghana - Rank 17:
Tony's ChocolonelyDark Almond Sea Salt 51%
51%darkGhana & Côte d'Ivoire - Rank 18:
ValrhonaGuanaja 70% Cacao
70%darkTrinidad and Tobago, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire & Madagascar2 awards - Rank 19:
JumboAmandel Zeezout Pure Chocolade
55%darkGhana & Côte d'Ivoire - Rank 20:
CarrefourLait Éclats de Caramel & Fleur de sel
35%milkCôte d'Ivoire - Rank 21:
PLUSPure chocolade
51%darkCôte d'Ivoire & Ghana - Rank 22:
Tony's ChocolonelyPuur Romige Hazelnoot Crunch
51%darkGhana & Côte d'Ivoire - Rank 23:
Tony's ChocolonelyDark Milk Pretzel Toffee
42%milkGhana & Côte d'Ivoire - Rank 24:
Tony's ChocolonelyMelk Pecan Crunch Karamel
32%milkGhana & Côte d'Ivoire - Rank 25:
Tony's ChocolonelyEverything bar
32%milkGhana & Côte d'Ivoire - Rank 26:
Hands OffSoft Core Dubai Pistachio
30%milkGhana & Côte d'Ivoire - Rank 27:
Tony's ChocolonelyExtra Dark Chocolate 70%
70%darkGhana & Côte d'Ivoire - Rank 28:
Ferrero RocherDark Hazelnut 70%
70%darkCôte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Nigeria, Ecuador & Colombia - Rank 29:
Tony's ChocolonelyChocolate Chip Cookie
32%milkGhana & Côte d'Ivoire
What is Côte d'Ivoire chocolate known for?
Ivorian cacao gives the flavour most people know as plain chocolate: deep, roasted cocoa with mild bitterness, low acidity and little fruit. Côte d'Ivoire grows more cacao than any other country, and its beans end up in a large share of the world's everyday milk and dark chocolate.
Côte d'Ivoire sells almost all of its cocoa as bulk, the standard grade that manufacturers pool and blend, and the International Cocoa Organization does not list it among fine or flavour exporters. The state regulator, the Conseil du Café-Cacao, sells much of each harvest in advance and fixes a guaranteed farmgate price for every crop, and beans from hundreds of thousands of small farms are graded, pooled and shipped through the ports of San-Pédro and Abidjan to grinders at home and abroad.
Most of the crop now grows in the wetter southwest and centre-west, around Soubré, San-Pédro, Daloa and Gagnoa, where farmers cleared forest for new plantings as cocoa farming moved west in the second half of the twentieth century. Farms grow Amelonado-type Forastero and, increasingly, Mercedes, a higher-yielding hybrid from the national research centre CNRA. A few chocolate makers in Abidjan now turn Ivorian beans into bars at home.
Makers with the most Côte d'Ivoire bars
Popular cocoa percentages for Côte d'Ivoire
Frequently asked about Côte d'Ivoire chocolate
What does Ivorian chocolate taste like?
Mostly roasted cocoa with mild bitterness and low acidity. Next to chocolate from a fine flavour origin such as Madagascar or Ecuador, it has much less fruit and floral aroma.
Is Ivory Coast cocoa bulk or fine flavour?
Almost all Ivory Coast cocoa is bulk: beans sold at a standard grade for manufacturers to pool and blend. The International Cocoa Organization does not list Côte d'Ivoire among its fine or flavour exporters, and single-origin Ivorian craft bars are uncommon.
What Ivorian chocolate brands are there?
Chof lists no chocolate brand or maker based in Côte d'Ivoire. 11 makers on Chof use Côte d'Ivoire cacao.
Which makers work with Côte d'Ivoire cacao on Chof?
Of the 11 makers using Côte d'Ivoire cacao on Chof, the three whose top Côte d'Ivoire bar has the highest Chof Score are Bonnat, Tony's Chocolonely and magic.
How are the best Côte d'Ivoire chocolate bars chosen?
The Côte d'Ivoire bars are ordered by Chof Score, which is built from what the maker discloses: how precisely the origin is named, how clean the ingredient list is, how much of the fermenting, drying and roasting is documented, and what lab evidence exists. Community ratings do not change the order.
How many Côte d'Ivoire chocolate bars are listed on Chof?
Chof currently lists 29 chocolate bars made with cacao from Côte d'Ivoire.
What cocoa percentages of Côte d'Ivoire chocolate are most common?
The most common cocoa percentages for Côte d'Ivoire cacao on Chof are 32%, 70%, 51%, 42% and 28%.
Cacao varieties in Côte d'Ivoire chocolate
Bean varieties the makers of these bars list for Côte d'Ivoire, as stated on the label. Open one to see what it is, how it tastes, and how to tell a real one.
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