Dark Side Chocolates offers a unique selection of handcrafted chocolates and desserts made from premium local ingredients. Perfect for bonbonniers for your wedding guests, catering dessert for your reception, a custom made dairy free tart for a birthday or a native-flavoured gift for your clients. Choose from our current range with flavours such as beetroot and shiraz, matcha cumin and caraway, raspberry white chocolate,or salted caramel; or let us custom make flavours and decorations to suit your occasion.
John sources flavours to contrast or compliment the base cacao characters. He uses the best local ingredients for his chocolates, and takes great joy in exploring Australian native bush flavours as well as other sweet and savoury aromas, with the appropriate choice of high quality cacao, to create delicious and captivating chocolates. Dark Side Chocolates uses only high quality Swiss couverture, with cacao beans sourced from sustainable cacao plantations around the world.
The main couverture used is a single origin Criollo from Venezuela – a relatively rare and premium strain of cacao. Other sources include Ecuador, the Ivory Coast, and Bolivia. For further information about our couverture please visit the Felchlin website.
Dark Side Chocolates uses fresh local ingredients wherever possible. Local sources include Bartholomew’s Meadery, Bannister Downs Dairy Farm, Bushfood Factory and Cafe, and Marvick Native Farms.