Indian Craft Chocolate Competition 2026

Indian Cacao & Craft Chocolate Festival · 2026

the Indian Craft Chocolate Competition

For the first time in India, craft chocolate makers from across the country were blind-tasted by an international panel and recognised with Gold, Silver and Bronze. The winners are here, and you can taste them at the festival.

See the winners Taste them at the festival

1stawards of their kind in India

28medals awarded

8winning brands

3days to taste them, 4–6 Dec

A first for Indian chocolate

The Indian Craft Chocolate Competition honors a defining moment in India’s chocolate journey, recognizing work that reflects the skill, integrity, and a strong sense of place for Indian makers, as Indian cacao and chocolate begin to earn global attention.

The first national competition for India creates a space for meaningful recognition and strengthens the Indian craft chocolate community, inspires conscious production, and will help to position Indian chocolate with confidence on the world stage.

Submitted

Makers from across India entered bars, dragées, bonbons, pralines and cacao ingredients.

Blind-tasted

An international panel judged every entry without knowing who made it.

Celebrated

The winners come to the festival, so the medals can be tasted and not just read about.

Winners list

The medal table

At the festival

Taste the winners. Meet the makers.

Every winning brand will be at the Indian Cacao & Craft Chocolate Festival. Come to taste the award-winning chocolates, and to hear, from the people who made them, how and why they were made.

Taste

Try the medal winners for yourself, from 85% single-origin bars to masala chai bonbons and tom kha dragées.

Listen

Hear the makers talk about their cacao, their farms and the ideas behind each winning product.

Be there for the first

This is the inaugural year of the awards. Being at the festival means being part of how it started.

4–6 December 2026 Sabha, Shivaji Nagar, Bengaluru Get festival tickets

The Indian Craft Chocolate Competition was organised by The International Chocolate Awards in collaboration with the Indian Cacao and Craft Chocolate Festival.
See the official competition website here