Belcolade - Couveture Chocolate, Inclusions and Cocoa and Nut-Based Fillings

Belcolade is the only Belgian company manufacturing real Belgian chocolate. Offering a full range of high quality chocolate products for the professional market, we are dedicated to continuous product innovation.

Dark, milk and white real Belgian chocolate

The company produces dark, milk and white real Belgian chocolate, available in liquid form, drops, blocks, chips, chunks and grains of various sizes. Belcolade exports its products to more than 90 countries worldwide. The range consists of our "Selection" and "Collection" assortments.

Belcolade employees are passionate about chocolate and believe that there will be more and more chocolate lovers around the world looking for more refined taste experiences. That is the very reason why Belcolade opts for the highest possible quality standards, such as using 100% cocoa butter and natural vanilla.

Belcolade's Selection Range

The "Selection" assortment ranges from a bitter dark chocolate to a sweet white chocolate, passing through a complete scale of tastes and viscosities. A range of specialties including shavings, bake-stable grains and chunk completes this assortment.

Belcolade's Collection Range

The exclusive "Collection" assortment consists of a very special Origin range and a fine selection of 100% organic chocolates, with a unique aroma approach.

Belcolade is dedicated to the careful exploration and selection of the finest cocoas from around the world, each individually excelling in specificity and uniqueness.

Rainforest Alliance Certified™

Some of the Belcolade origins use ingredients sourced from a Rainforest Alliance Certified™ farm in Costa Rica, ensuring sustainable use of resources, protection of the environment and ethical behaviour.

100% organic chocolate

Belcolade’s organic range continues to grow in popularity, as consumers take a more holistic view of the food they eat. All ingredients we use to produce this range are 100% organic. Some of the references are also available in grains and chunks. The range is Certisys and NOP approved, and 100% traceable. The products are also available in a Fairtrade version.

Cocoa and nut-based fillings

To complete the assortment, a wide range of high quality cocoa and nut-based fillings are also available, including the latest innovation, Cryst-o-fil®, which allows customers' creativity to run wild!

Tailor-made chocolate solutions

It is possible that for certain applications, the specific requirements of your machinery or taste expectations, may necessitate the development of a new type of chocolate. Belcolade has its own world-class research and development team that can assist you in developing a tailor-made chocolate, making the use of the very latest technologies, fully equipped pilot plant, and a sensorial analysis panel.

Belcolade puts years of experience in special certification (e.g. kosher and parve) and special customer requests at your disposal.

Special taste analyses and sensorial test centre

Belcolade’s own outstanding chocolatiers and researchers organise training sessions and seminars throughout the year in our fully equipped chocolate centre. A sensorial test centre was created for special taste analyses.

The Art of manufacturing 'The Real Belgian Chocolate'

At Belcolade we believe the process of manufacturing chocolate is an art form:

• The Art of perfectly blending first class cocoas with pure cocoa butter to obtain the delicious Belgian flavours
• The Art of achieving the delicate balance between sweetness and bitterness
• The Art of producing a wide range of varieties in the true tradition of Belgian craftsmanship

The company was established in 1988 and is part of Puratos, a worldwide leader in the food industry. Belcolade is recognized as the company giving new life to the image of authentic Belgian chocolate. All the real Belgian chocolate from Belcolade is only produced at its Erembodegem site, near Aalst, Belgium.