Our Process


At this time, Higher Dimension Foods' primary form of alchemy is bringing you chocolate.  Our cacao is sourced from the best farms around the planet, each origin wildly different in flavor.  You will have a hard time believing that there are not added flavorings, just cacao, organic sugar, organic cocoa butter for texture and in any milk bars, organic whole milk powder.  The first step is sourcing the most exquisite beans available.  Next we sort through beans to confirm their quality as well as look for any beans not up to our standards.  Then the magic begins. We roast our beans, each bean needing a different roast to maximize the inherent flavor. After roasting, cracking and winnowing is when the beans are crushed and then the nibs and husk are separated from each other.  Once we have the nibs, we refine them and grind them with granite stones for at least 24 hours, some batches go for over 48 hours!  The nibs release their fat and turn to liquid.  At this point we add sugar and cocoa butter to the ground cacao until it is perfectly smooth.  Now that we have chocolate that tastes how we like, we must temper and mold the bars and finally wrap them for you.  Tempering is a process that rearranges the crystals in the cacao's natural fats by controlling the temperature precisely and having chocolate that has a wonderful shine and snap as well as not melting as easily and lasting longer (although the gods weep if you don't eat the chocolate quickly).  It cannot be stated enough, that equal to the cacao, love is an equal ingredient in making our chocolate.