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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!
INTRODUCTION TO WILLIE’S CACAO
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 CACAOS?
What are single estate cacaos? Why do they taste so totally fantastic!? Why saying single origin is like saying wine from France!
THE JOURNEY FROM BEAN TO BAR
The journey through the Willie’s Cacao Chocolate Factory. How a bean becomes a bar.
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.
TASTING VIDEOS
WILLIE’S CACAO
TASTING BOX TRAILER
Trailer for Willie’s Cacao
Milk Dark and White Tasting Box
1.25mins
INTRO DISCOVERY BOX
DARK CHOCOLATE
Introduction to Willie’s Cacao with Japanese Magnificent Creations
Longer 25 minute tasting guide
INTRO DISCOVERY BOX
DARK CHOCOLATE
Introduction to Willie’s Cacao with Japanese Magnificent Creations
Short 6 minute tasting guide
INTRO DISCOVERY BOX
MILK & DARK CHOCOLATE
Introduction to Willie’s Cacao with Japanese Magnificent Creations
Longer 25 minute tasting guide
INTRO DISCOVERY BOX
MILK & DARK CHOCOLATE
Introduction to Willie’s Cacao with Japanese Magnificent Creations
Short 5 minute tasting guide
VEGANUARY 2021
SUBSCRIPTION BOX
DARK CHOCOLATE
JANUARY HEALTHY & DELICIOUS
Long 12 minutes tasting guide
VEGANUARY 2021
SUBSCRIPTION BOX
DARK CHOCOLATE
JANUARY HEALTHY & DELICIOUS
Short 4 minutes tasting guide
JANUARY 2021
SUBSCRIPTION BOX
MILK & DARK CHOCOLATE
JANUARY HEALTHY & DELICIOUS
Long 18 minutes tasting guide
JANUARY 2021
SUBSCRIPTION BOX
MILK & DARK CHOCOLATE
JANUARY HEALTHY & DELICIOUS
Short 4 minutes tasting guide
DECEMBER 2020
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DARK CHOCOLATE
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Short 3.5 minute tasting guide
DECEMBER 2020
SUBSCRIPTION BOX
MILK & DARK CHOCOLATE
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Longer 14.5 minutes tasting guide
DECEMBER 2020
SUBSCRIPTION BOX
MILK & DARK CHOCOLATE
MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Short 2.5 minutes tasting guide
NOVEMBER 2020
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DARK CHOCOLATE
Fruity Flavours.
Longer 24 minutes tasting guide
NOVEMBER 2020
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DARK CHOCOLATE
Fruity Flavours
Short 10 minutes tasting guide
NOVEMBER 2020
SUBSCRIPTION BOX
MILK & DARK
Fruity Flavours.
Longer 24.5 minutes tasting guide
NOVEMBER 2020
SUBSCRIPTION BOX
MILK & DARK
Fruity Flavours
Short 8 minutes tasting guide
OUR CHOCOLATES
HOT CHOCOLATE
This Hot Chocolate rocks!
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.
NEW! NO ADDED SUGAR
Chocolate naturally sweetened with fruit and nuts. Vegan. No Added Sugar.
EL BLANCO
Why even our white chocolate doesn’t need vanilla
MATCHA
Choosing the best ceremonial grade matcha with the farmers near Kyoto in Japan and making it into the best chocolate
RECIPES
WILD WATERCRESS
AND WILD GARLIC SOUP
The wild flavours of these foraged ingredients will put a spring in your step
EASY PEASY
CHOCOLATE PANCAKES
Let the blender do the work,
nothing could be easier.
CHOCOLATE SPREAD
Make your own..
No nasties here!
CHOCOLATE SORBET
Melting magic.
WHITE CHOCOLATE AND
BEETROOT BROWNIES
Gluten Free and who can resist that colour ?
CHOCOLATE VODKA
FOR FATHER’S DAY
Drink it as a dessert, with a dessert or after a dessert!
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…
THE FACTORY
MILK CHOCOLATE IN SMALL MELANGEUR
A molten dream of milk chocolate in my small melangeur.
THE JOURNEY FROM BEAN TO BAR
The journey through the Willie’s Cacao Chocolate Factory. How a bean becomes a bar.
100 YEAR OLD CONCHING TANKS
The rhythmic thud of my conching tanks is the music of my life.
COCOA BUTTER PRESS
Real cocoa butter from real cocoa butter press
A LIGHT ROAST
Madagascan Sambirano beans come tumbling out after their light roast
CHOCOLATE PERFECTION
The rhythm and music of chocolate.
TRAVELS
FORAGING
FOR WILD GARLIC
Getting ready to make the soup
CLOUD FOREST
MAKES WATER
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.
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.
