Vanilla Chocolate

Our Guide to Vanilla Chocolate

Vanilla is added to white chocolate to enhance its delicate flavours. Here are the best bars we’ve found.

The main ingredients of white chocolate are cacao butter + sugar + milk. It’s the cacao butter that gives your mouth the creamy, buttery texture that you love, but cacao butter doesn’t usually have much of a flavour to it! So vanilla is added to white chocolate to enhance the taste. Montezuma’s Great White is a lovely sweet and creamy bar with added vanilla and is organic and gluten-free too!

However, the very best quality cacao butter tastes good enough not to need vanilla and Willie’s Cacao are one for the very few chocolate makers who have produced a delicious creamy white chocolate without it. Their El Blanco bar is made with just cacao butter + sugar + milk and nothing else!

For vegan white chocolate, iChoc's Vanilla is the closest in taste we’ve found to a dairy white chocolate bar. The carefully selected cacao butter is blended
with plant-based ingredients incluging rice, tiger nuts and almonds and flavoured with whole vanilla pods for a creamy mouth feel.