WILLIE’S TV

Willie’s brief introduction to Willie’s Cacao, his passion for real chocolate, his cocoa farm in Venezuela and bean to bar chocolate factory in Devon.

What are single estate cacaos? Why do they taste so totally fantastic!? Why saying single origin is like saying wine from France!

The journey through the Willie’s Cacao Chocolate Factory. How a bean becomes a bar.

Willie talks about his passion for real chocolate, from the unlikely beginning sitting on a beach in Venezuela to setting up Britain’s first bean to bar chocolate factory. All the while guiding us through a tasting of his different single estate chocolates.

Introduction to bean to bar artisan chocolate with Japanese Magnificent Creations

Longer 25 minute tasting guide

Introduction to bean to bar artisan chocolate with Japanese Magnificent Creations

Short 6 minute tasting guide

Introduction to bean to bar artisan chocolate with Japanese Magnificent Creations

Longer 25 minute tasting guide

Introduction to bean to bar artisan chocolate with Japanese Magnificent Creations

Short 5 minute tasting guide

JANUARY HEALTHY & DELICIOUS

Long 12 minutes tasting guide

JANUARY HEALTHY & DELICIOUS

Short 4 minutes tasting guide

JANUARY HEALTHY & DELICIOUS

Long 18 minutes tasting guide

JANUARY HEALTHY & DELICIOUS

Short 4 minutes tasting guide

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Short 3.5 minute tasting guide

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Longer 14.5 minutes tasting guide

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

Short 2.5 minutes tasting guide

Fruity Flavours.

Longer 24 minutes tasting guide

Fruity Flavours

Short 10 minutes tasting guide

Fruity Flavours.

Longer 24.5 minutes tasting guide

Fruity Flavours

Short 8 minutes tasting guide

This Hot Chocolate rocks!

New No Added Sugar Chocolate, 100% cacao naturally sweetened with fruit and nuts. When it’s this good you have to sing about it.

Chocolate naturally sweetened with fruit and nuts. Vegan. No Added Sugar.

Why even our white chocolate doesn’t need vanilla

Choosing the best ceremonial grade matcha with the farmers near Kyoto in Japan and making it into the best chocolate

The wild flavours of these foraged ingredients will put a spring in your step

Let the blender do the work, nothing could be easier.

Make your own..

No nasties here!

Melting magic.

Gluten Free and who can resist that colour ?

Drink it as a dessert, with a dessert or after a dessert!

Willie and Captain Darren go on a 40-foot dive to prepare the freshest scallops ever with a dusting of Willie’s Supreme Cacao on a bed of salad.

What to do on a gloriously sunny day in Devon? Bake Willie’s classic Cloud Forest Cake in the garden of course. A cake made in heaven….

Willie Harcourt-Cooze and his friend Rob make a Classic Chocolate Mousse in a Bitter Chocolate Casing, one of Willie’s dinner party favourites.

Willie shows you how easy it is to make rich, deep dark sexy fresh cream truffles. Truffles are the best way to taste the different flavour profiles of cacao beans.

A chocolate sorbet needs three ingredients, fine sugar & chocolate, & fresh, pure water. Willie sets out across Dartmoor to source water for the perfect sorbet.

Cacao has been consumed as a drink for thousands of years in Central America. This recipe is based on a typical Aztec beverage.

Travelling in Spain, Willie selects tempting local produce, and cooks up a storm. Olives, beans, chorizo. walnuts… The best ingredients make the finest flavours!

Willie fishes for mackerel on the mouth of the river Exe with a friend. They return to prepare Cacao, Roasted Pepper and Chilli Harissa to go with their catch on the jetty.

Willie picks sloes in a Somerset orchard and makes sloe berry chocolate vodka, a great after-dinner liqueur or dessert served with a biscuit or a slice of cake.

On his way to Freetown, Willie spots an unusual creature, a “Cotton Mouse” (or is it?!) and turns it into a delicious cacao dish…

Inspired by an original maize and chocolate drink, Willie decides to make and test a delicious cacao tortilla, using local ingredients.

In Sierra Leone Willie is invited to cook for the chief. The meal is a little late because Willie has to improvise – there’s no whisk, and then there’s no barbecue.

Inspired by local ingredients in Sierra Leone, Willie decides to make an orange & Almond bitter chocolate cake… Now he just has to find somewhere to cook it…

A molten dream of milk chocolate in my small melangeur.

The journey through the Willie’s Cacao Chocolate Factory. How a bean becomes a bar.

The rhythmic thud of my conching tanks is the music of my life.

Real cocoa butter from real cocoa butter press

Madagascan Sambirano beans come tumbling out after their light roast

The rhythm and music of chocolate.

High in the cloud forest in the mountains of Choroni where my farm is. Listen to the clouds turning to water as it drips from the trees.

Getting ready to make the soup

Willie finds the future of his chocolate making in two old chocolate making factories in Spain. Beautiful old machinery to take home to the Factory in Devon.

Follow the tantalising and pure process of chocolate making, all the way from bean to bar in Willie’s North Devon factory.

Willie’s Cacao eggs-clusive Easter event in London. Venezuelan breakfast making, Easter egg making, and music from the wonderful Malambo. Eggcellent.

Willie describes the perfect tempering method, and how to get your home made easter eggs smooth and gleaming.

On his way to Freetown, Willie spots an unusual creature, a “Cotton Mouse” (or is it?!) and turns it into a delicious cacao dish…

Inspired by an original maize and chocolate drink, Willie decides to make and test a delicious cacao tortilla, using local ingredients.

Willie is very excited to make connections to Sierra Leone, help support sustainable regeneration of the cacao farms, and find the perfect cacao for Ginger & Lime.

In Sierra Leone Willie is invited to cook for the chief. The meal is a little late because Willie has to improvise – there’s no whisk, and then there’s no barbecue.

Inspired by local ingredients in Sierra Leone, Willie decides to make an orange & Almond bitter chocolate cake… Now he just has to find somewhere to cook it…

Willie travels through Colombia to meet the cacao farmers who are making incredible changes to how they farm, and making great beans for a new cacao for Willie!

One of the classic scenes from Willie’s Wonky Chocolate Factory featuring Willie’s story of The Turkey.

One of the classic scenes from Willie’s Wonky Chocolate Factory featuring Willie’s story of The Turkey.

One of the classic scenes from Willie’s Wonky Chocolate Factory featuring Willie’s story of The Mushrooms.

One of the classic scenes from Willie’s Wonky Chocolate Factory featuring Willie’s story of The Eel.