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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Our set up at the DMV Chocolate and Coffee Festiv

Our set up at the DMV Chocolate and Coffee Festival! Come try some chocolate! 😀🍫

Ready for day 2! 10-4 at the Dulles Expo Center in Chantilly, VA.

We'll be at the DMV Chocolate and Coffee Festival

Happy mother's day! I hope you're all having a gre

Happy mother's day! I hope you're all having a great day! 😀♥️

Our Occoquan shop is open until 4 this afternoon. Stop by and enjoy this beautiful weather with a cup of gelato or for any last minute mother's day gifts! We're all stocked up on bars, bonbons, and more.

Shown in this photo is our ooey gooey salted caramel bonbon.

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Our Occoquan shop will be closed today while our p

Our Occoquan shop will be closed today while our porch is being worked on.

I've been doing chocolate events with Carlyle Hous

I've been doing chocolate events with Carlyle House for several years, and we've got another fun one coming up on May 6th. This time we'll be tasting 6 of my bonbons and learning the historic language of the fan.

It'll be held on the outside patio at the historic Carlyle House in Old Town Alexandria next Saturday, May 6th starting at 7pm. Additionally, doors will be open at 6 for anyone who wants to explore some of the house beforehand.

I hope to see you there! More info below!

Reposted from @carlylehouseva

Have you tried the chocolate bon-bons from @potomacchocolate yet? Join us on May 6th to try 6 different flavored bon-bons. Tickets are $40 a person and also includes historian Tracy Gillespie's Language of the Fan program. Program starts at 7pm but the doors will open at 6pm for those interested in exploring the first floor of the museum beforehand.

@potomacchocolate will also have bon-bons and chocolate bars for sale after the program.

Tickets can be purchased on our website. (link in @carlylehouseva bio)

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Back at the factory for a little after-hours sourd

Back at the factory for a little after-hours sourdough bread dough shaping.

These loaves are now in the fridge for an overnight cold rise. I will be baking them tomorrow morning. Most of this bread will be made into breadcrumbs for our You Bread My Mind bar, but at least one will be coming home with me. 😀

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The 6th Annual DC Chocolate Festival is just a cou

The 6th Annual DC Chocolate Festival is just a couple weeks away! Do you have your tickets yet?

This is always one of my favorite events of the year! There'll be lots of great chocolate makers, chocolatiers, and more, as well as some great classes, demonstrations, and panels. It's a very fun time and I hope to see some of you there. 😀

Saturday, April 29th, from 10:30a-5:30p at the French Embassy. Note that tickets are required to be purchased in advance. No tickets will be sold at the door.

Visit dcchocolatefestival.com or @chochousedc for more information and tickets.

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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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