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Welcome to Willie’s TV, where you’ll find inspiring recipes for cooking with cacao and chocolate from savoury to sweet, from my quest for the finest beans around the world from Indonesia to Sierra Leon to Colombia, from those journeys to find the best ingredients to make the finest flavours, from my adventures looking for antique chocolate machines to produce artisan chocolate; it’s here!

A Quick Introduction to Willie’s Cacao

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 is Special about Our Cacao?

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

Willie talks about his passion for chocolate & does a guided chocolate tasting

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 diifferent single estate chocolates.

Making Chocolate Bean to Bar

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

No Added Sugar Song

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

Matcha

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

New! No Added Sugar

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

Chocolate Perfection

The rhythm and music of chocolate.

El Blanco

Why even our white chocolate doesn’t need vanilla

RECIPES

FRESH SCALLOPS WITH WILLIE’S CACAO

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.

CLASSIC CLOUD FOREST CAKE

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….

BITTER CHOCOLATE CASE MOUSSE

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

MAKE WILLIE’S CACAO TRUFFLES

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.

PURE SPRINGWATER SORBET

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

WILLIE’S ULTIMATE HOT CHOCOLATE

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

COOKING WITH CACAO IN SPAIN

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

CACAO, PEPPER & HARISSA MACKEREL

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.

SLOE BERRY CHOCOLATE VODKA

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.

WILLIE’S CHOCOLATE COTTONMOUSE

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

CACAO TORTILLA

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

A CHOCOLATE FEAST FOR THE CHIEF

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.

COOKING IN SIERRA LEONE

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…

TRAVELS

ALADDIN’S CHOCOLATE CAVE

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.

THE FACTORY: FROM BEAN TO BAR

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

EGGSTRAVAGANZA, EASTER

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

MAKE PERFECT EASTER EGGS

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

WILLIE’S CHOCOLATE COTTONMOUSE

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

CACAO TORTILLA

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

GINGER & LIME

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.

A CHOCOLATE FEAST FOR A CHIEF

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.

COOKING IN SIERRA LEONE

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’S COLOMBIA TRIP

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!

WHOPPERS

WHOPPER – THE TURKEY

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

WHOPPER – THE PIG

One of the classic scenes from Willie’s Wonky Chocolate Factory featuring Willie’s preparation of Junkie Pig.

WHOPPER – THE MUSHROOM

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

WHOPPER – THE EEL

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

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