{"id":58633,"date":"2025-05-13T19:24:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T19:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enter.chocolateawards.com\/?p=58633"},"modified":"2025-05-13T19:37:41","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T19:37:41","slug":"canadian-craft-chocolatier-competition-2025-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enter.chocolateawards.com\/nl\/competitions\/canadian\/canadian-craft-chocolatier-competition-2025-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Craft Chocolatier Competition 2025 – Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The International Chocolate Awards is pleased to announce the Winners of the Canadian<\/strong> Craft Chocolatier competition<\/strong><\/em>, which was judged remotely in April and early May 2025.\u00a0<\/p>

The Grand Jury Finalists are listed here<\/a>.<\/p>

Winners of this competition will pass through to the World Final organized in October-November 2025.<\/p>

This craft competition awards prizes for craft chocolatier products including filled chocolates\/bonbons, pralines, enrobed fruits and nuts and chocolate spreads made with bean-to-bar chocolate as well as flavoured bars made with couverture. Plain\/origin and flavoured bean-to-bar products from Canadian chocolate makers were judged at the 2025 Americas Competition – USA & Canada.<\/p>

Judges<\/h3>

The judges<\/a> were drawn from local experts, food journalists, our IICCT<\/a> Alumni and members of our permanent international Grand Jury.<\/p>

Prizes<\/h3>

The categories judged included filled chocolates, enrobed fruits and nuts and chocolate spreads, as well as flavoured bars (not bean-to-bar). All judging is anonymized, including at the Grand Jury final session, where Gold, Silver and Bronze prizes are awarded by private voting.<\/p>

** Bean-to-bar chocolatier products \u2013 recognising the growing trend of filled chocolate made by chocolate makers, winning products made with an entrant\u2019s own chocolate are marked with (**).<\/div>

Awards are awarded only to entries that meet the required standard for each prize.<\/p>

The 2025 Canadian Craft Chocolatier Winners are:<\/span><\/h3>

(Prizes are shown in score order for each medal)<\/em><\/p>

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Repen met toegevoegde smaak<\/h1>
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Donkere chocoladerepen met insluitsels of stukjes<\/h2>

Silver<\/strong>: Etat de Choc<\/a><\/span><\/em>  (Canada) – Orange<\/strong> (88.1<\/span><\/strong>)<\/span><\/p>

Bronze<\/strong>: Etat de Choc<\/a><\/span><\/em>  (Canada) – Ma\u00efs Piment<\/strong> (85.5<\/span><\/strong>)<\/span><\/p><\/div>

Donkere chocoladerepen met een vulling<\/h2>

Gold<\/strong>: Etat de Choc<\/a><\/span><\/em>  (Canada) – Ultime Banane<\/strong> (89.2<\/span><\/strong>)<\/span><\/p>

+ Special<\/strong>: Classic<\/span><\/p>

Silver<\/strong>: Etat de Choc<\/a><\/span><\/em>  (Canada) – Ultime Noisette<\/strong> (88.9<\/span><\/strong>)<\/span><\/p>

Bronze<\/strong>: Etat de Choc<\/a><\/span><\/em>  (Canada) – Ultime Pistache<\/strong> (86.7<\/span><\/strong>)<\/span><\/p><\/div>

Melkchocoladerepen met insluitsels of stukjes<\/h2>

Gold<\/strong>: Etat de Choc<\/a><\/span><\/em>  (Canada) – S\u00e9same<\/strong> (90.9<\/span><\/strong>)<\/span><\/p><\/div>

Ganaches, palets, ganache pralines en truffels<\/h1>
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Ganaches of truffels van melkchocolade<\/h2>

Gold<\/strong>: Mellis Chocolate<\/a><\/span><\/em>  (Canada) – Chrysanthemum<\/strong> (91.1<\/span><\/strong>)<\/span><\/p>

+ Special<\/strong>: Modern<\/span><\/p>

+ Special<\/strong>: Innovation<\/span><\/p><\/div>

Ganaches of truffels van witte chocolade<\/h2>

Gold<\/strong>: Mellis Chocolate<\/a><\/span><\/em>  (Canada) – Cherry Blossom<\/strong> (91.7<\/span><\/strong>)<\/span><\/p>

Silver<\/strong>: Mellis Chocolate<\/a><\/span><\/em>  (Canada) – High Mountain Oolong<\/strong> (89.4<\/span><\/strong>)<\/span><\/p>

Bronze<\/strong>: Mellis Chocolate<\/a><\/span><\/em>  (Canada) – London Fog<\/strong> (85.5<\/span><\/strong>)<\/span><\/p><\/div>

Noten<\/h1>
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Melkchocolade dragees, omhulde hele noten<\/h2>

Bronze<\/strong>: Allo Simonne<\/a><\/span><\/em>  (Canada) – Bleuets au chocolat jaguar \u00e0 la fraise<\/strong> (86.7<\/span><\/strong>)<\/span> (**)<\/span><\/p>

+ Special<\/strong>: Local ingredients<\/span><\/p><\/div>

(*)  Declared chocolate maker for private label bars.<\/em><\/p>

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