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Made in Kawartha Lakes · Ontario

Chocolate,
made honestly.

Small-batch bean-to-bar chocolate made fresh with carefully chosen cacao, local maple sugar and a short list of real ingredients.

Purely Chocolate dark chocolate bars, including a sea-salted bar and botanical moulded bar
Made in LindsaySmall-batch chocolate, finished by hand

From whole cacao bean

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Made fresh in Kawartha Lakes

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Minimal, natural ingredients

New · Fall collection

Dark chocolate,
with a fall rhythm.

Coffee, maple and blueberry bring a deeper seasonal character to three new small-batch creations.

Available in limited quantities while each fresh batch lasts.

75% Dark Maple Coffee chocolate bars arranged with roasted coffee beans and autumn maple leaves
75% cocoa · New bar

Dark Maple
Coffee Bar

Nicaraguan cacao, local maple sugar and coarsely ground Guatemalan coffee beans, locally roasted by Brouwer’s Bake Shop in Downeyville.

Shop the fall batch ↗
Packages of Purely Chocolate 75% Dark Maple Coffee chocolate bark with roasted coffee beans
75% cocoa · New bark

Dark Maple
Coffee Bark

The same bold coffee-dark chocolate recipe in rustic, hand-broken pieces—made for easy sharing, if you feel generous.

Shop the fall batch ↗
Fresh 70% Dark Maple Blueberry Bark topped with whole dried blueberries
70% cocoa · New bark

Dark Maple
Blueberry Bark

Our 70% dark maple chocolate scattered with whole freeze-dried blueberries for bright berry flavour and a delicate crunch.

Shop the fall batch ↗

The core collection

Distinct bars.
One clear philosophy.

These customer favourites remain at the heart of Purely Chocolate alongside our limited seasonal creations.

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PurelyROSE GOLDKawartha Lakes
The signature

Kawartha Maple Rose Gold

Blond maple chocolate with Himalayan salt. Toasted, caramel-like and unmistakably Kawartha.

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Purely70% DARKKawartha Lakes
The crowd favourite

70% Dark Maple Sea Salt

Deep cocoa, local maple sweetness and a clean finish of Vancouver Island sea salt.

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PurelyMAPLE MILKKawartha Lakes
Smooth & familiar

Semi-Sweet Maple Milk

Balanced milk chocolate made richer with cocoa and naturally sweetened with maple sugar.

Also available: 70% Dark Maple, Dark Maple Sea Salt Bark and Roasted Cocoa Husk Infusion Tea.

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Whole roasted cacao beans and freshly cracked cacao nibs in stainless-steel bowls
Whole bean.
Freshly cracked nibs.

Made from the beginning

We don’t melt chocolate.
We make it.

Purely Chocolate is a small bean-to-bar maker in Lindsay, Ontario. We begin with whole cacao beans and guide every batch through roasting, cracking, winnowing, refining, tempering and moulding ourselves.

That hands-on process lets us pursue something industrial chocolate often loses: fresh flavour, a sense of place and a recipe you can understand. Local maple sugar gives our collection its distinctly Kawartha character.

01 Roast02 Crack & winnow03 Refine04 Temper05 Mould

Phase 2 · New in the workshop

More cacao.
Same careful hands.

Our new DCM Breeze Mini cracks roasted cacao beans and separates the light husk from the flavourful nibs—the part we refine into chocolate.

It removes hours of hand processing, helping us keep 70% Dark Maple Sea Salt in stock and giving us room to begin deeper, darker recipes. The batches stay small; the process simply gets stronger.

DCM Breeze Mini cracker and winnower connected to its husk-collection vacuum in Purely Chocolate's Lindsay workshop
Cracking and winnowing cacao in Lindsay
Front view of the stainless-steel DCM Breeze Mini cracker and winnower
DCM Breeze Mini · Cracker & Winnower

Small room. Serious process.

Made here.
By hand.

Every bar passes through our own Lindsay workspace. We work in small batches so we can pay attention to flavour, texture and finish—not just volume.

Dark chocolate bars being wrapped by hand in gold foil and paper
Finished and wrapped by hand
Purely Chocolate's stainless-steel production room in Lindsay, Ontario
Our Lindsay production space

Meet the maker

Find us around
Kawartha Lakes.

Pick
up
Pickup Orders

15 Cambridge St. S., Lindsay
Sunday · 12–4pm
Monday–Thursday · 12–5pm
Friday · 12–9pm
Saturday · 2–9pm
Available on holidays

Sat
Bobcaygeon

Farmers’ Market · 8am–1pm

Small batches can sell out. Follow along for weekly availability, pickup details and market updates.

Taste the difference freshness makes

Real cacao. Local character.
Purely Chocolate.