SUDBURY – A Massachusetts chocolatier relies on simple ingredients and a year-long process to make their award-winning dark chocolate bars.
Simple ingredients
Inside a 225-year-old barn in Sudbury, Goodnow Farms creates several varieties of dark chocolate bars. For the Rogan family, the recipe is simple.
“Our bars are just made from the cacao beans and sugar, nothing else,” said co-founder Tom Rogan.
Tom and Monica Rogan started their family business when they struggled to find healthy chocolate options at the supermarket.
“Basically, we couldn’t find chocolate that we wanted to eat. So, we decided to make it ourselves,” said Monica Rogan.
Year-long process
Using cacao beans sourced from only one farm or region, it takes a year to bring flavors like winter maple with spiced brown butter to life. The Rogans pay top dollars to small farmers across Latin America to help the farmers thrive.
“The cacao pods have to grow on the trees, the farmers have to harvest the pods, take out the beans, ferment them, dry them, all with super high quality,” said Monica Rogan.