Award-winning chocolate
handcrafted in Occoquan, VA

Visit our new retail shop at 304 Mill St, Occoquan, VA!

Potomac Chocolate is a small American craft chocolate maker in Woodbridge, Virginia.

In my absurdly small workshop, I transform ethically sourced raw cacao into award-winning craft chocolate. My process has one goal: to create delicious bean-to-bar chocolate that highlights the unique flavors of each cacao origin. Learn more about Potomac Chocolate or my chocolate making process.

-Ben Rasmussen
Chocolate Maker & Owner, Potomac Chocolate

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I've been working on a few new bonbons lately. A f

I've been working on a few new bonbons lately. A few weeks back we had some experimental flavors available at the shop (two of which at least will be available again soon--I'm going to rework the third).

In addition to those, we now have three other new flavors in the bonbon case! These three are all single-origin dark chocolates and showcase the different chocolates' flavors. We've had a 70% dark bonbon for years now that has always been based on our Duarte, Dominican Republic 70% dark chocolate. To that we now add these three origins:

Semuliki Forest, Uganda 75%. Decorated with light blue and white, this one has notes of dried cherry and toffee.

Tumaco, Colombia 70%. Decorated with teal and white swooshes, this one is more delicate with floral and nutty notes.

Ucayali River, Peru 70%. Dark blue and white, this one is a fruit bomb with banana, cherry, and citrus notes. Almost the exact opposite of the Tumaco.

And, of course, we still have our original Dominican dark chocolate bonbon, which is more traditionally chocolately, with notes of fudgy brownie and graham cracker. It's still decorated black with white speckles, but the next batch will switch to orange and white swooshes (to match the color of the fish on it's bar packaging like the other new single-origin bonbons).

Come by the shop or order online to pick some of these to try!

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Happy Valentine's Day! Our Occoquan shop will be

Happy Valentine's Day!

Our Occoquan shop will be open from 11-6 today. Stop by for some goodies for your loved ones (or yourself! 😀)

♥️🍫♥️🍫

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Valentine's Day is Tuesday! Stop in for some bonbo

Valentine's Day is Tuesday! Stop in for some bonbons!

(Normal or cheesy heart-shaped boxes available! ♥️😀)

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It may be winter, but we're still churning gelato!

It may be winter, but we're still churning gelato! Stop by our Occoquan shop and try our newly-updated Salted Caramel!

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The new panner arrived a day earlier than expected

The new panner arrived a day earlier than expected!

It's served me well enough for a while, but it's t

It's served me well enough for a while, but it's time to upgrade from my little KitchenAid Panning Attachment. I'm planning to do a lot more chocolate-covered stuff soon, so I've just ordered a real-deal panning machine.

Stay tuned for some new stuff soon!

Side note: I love new equipment. 😀

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Announcing our new Peppermint Bark! It's a layer o

Announcing our new Peppermint Bark! It's a layer of our Dominican 70% dark chocolate with a layer of white chocolate, topped with a generous sprinkling of Doscher's Old-Fashioned Candy Canes!

We've actually been selling this for a few weeks at our shop in Occoquan, but it's been selling too fast (and we've been too slammed to make enough) to put it up on the website. We're now able to make it available through both!

On a side note, this is the first-ever product that Potomac has made with white chocolate...but won't be the last. 🙂

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Packed up a ton of bonbons for some holiday orders

Packed up a ton of bonbons for some holiday orders! There's still time to order for delivery before Christmas!

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