CHOCOLATES & CONFECTIONS HAND-CRAFTED IN SAN FRANCISCO

Poco Dolce Confections was started by Kathy Wiley in 2003 as a small San Francisco baking company specializing in regional Italian pastries. Within a year, she discovered a passion for creating hand-made chocolates with unique and exciting flavors. Having a predilection for more savory foods, Kathy decided to finish a piece of bittersweet chocolate with a sprinkling of Grey Sea Salt (also known as Sel Gris.) Poco Dolce's bittersweet chocolate "Tiles" were born.

The name - Poco Dolce - literally translates from Italian as "not too sweet" or "just a little sweet." Applying this idea to their products, Poco Dolce's ongoing mission is to stay on the "savory side of sweet."

SIMPLE, FRESH, ALL-NATURAL INGREDIENTS

Now run by a nine person team for most of the year, the utmost attention and care is put into crafting each and every product. Created in small batches in their San Francisco kitchen, Poco Dolce's hand-made chocolates and confections feature only the finest, all-natural ingredients - from local almonds and pumpkin seeds to grey sea salt harvested from the coast of Brittany. Poco Dolce's signature Sea Salt Toffee has just three ingredients - sugar, butter, and sea salt. Their new Bittersweet Chocolate Bar line continues to feature quality ingredients by using inclusions like all-natural peanut butter and California olive oil.

ENVIRONMENTALLY AND SOCIALLY CONSCIOUS CHOCOLATE

Poco Dolce uses blends of chocolate from Guittard Chocolate Company - located just 15 miles south of San Francisco in Burlingame, California. Guittard not only uses cacao beans that are Rainforest Alliance certified, but they also pay a premium well over market value for the cocoa beans used in the chocolate. They are a member of the World Cocoa Foundation which, among many other causes, supports the Cocoa Livelihoods Program which works towards ensuring quality of life for workers through sustainable cacao growing.

Poco Dolce's efforts to be environmentally and socially conscious were recognized when the Aztec Chile Tile was named as a finalist for the 2010 Good Food Awards' chocolate category. The Good Food Awards recognize outstanding American food producers and the farmers who provide their ingredients.

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