New TCHOpro.com combines professional baking chocolates and chocolate-centric recipes for pastry chefs and makers to find inspiration
BERKELEY, Calif., Oct. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- TCHO Chocolate ("cho"), the Berkeley-based pioneer craft chocolate maker, announced the official launch of TCHOpro.com, creating an engaging digital destination for pastry chefs, bakers, chocolatiers, and other culinary professionals to discover products, explore recipes, and find inspiration for their next creation.
As TCHO's professional chocolate portfolio continues to grow, the new website expands TCHOpro beyond a traditional product destination. The new experience is designed to give professionals a place they can regularly return to for ideas, baking and pastry applications using chocolate, and find culinary inspiration from their peers. In the near future, chefs, pastry chefs, and makers will be able to discover and purchase TCHO's baking chocolates through an exclusive wholesale portal where chefs can shop online for chocolate that will be delivered to their doorstep.
"While TCHO has long been known as a consumer chocolate brand, we have been crafting chocolate for professionals since our earliest days," says Hiro Tamai, CEO of TCHO Chocolate. "With TCHOpro, we are deepening our commitment to the professional community. We want to help chefs, bakers, chocolatiers, and food and beverage professionals of all kinds explore new flavors and bring their creativity to life. Co-development and customization are just some of the ways we look forward to partnering with them."
TCHOpro.com brings together TCHO's professional product portfolio with recipes, baking applications, and stories from chefs and makers using TCHO's chocolate. A visual and intuitive experience allows professionals to move from discovering an idea to exploring how to find the right chocolate for a specific baking and pastry application.
Recipes are organized across key professional categories including bakery, confection, pastry, beverage, and frozen applications, helping chefs more easily discover ideas relevant to their work. Product pages also connect TCHO chocolates with suggested applications and professional inspiration, creating a more seamless path from discovery to purchase.
"We really wanted TCHOpro to be more than just a place to shop for professional chocolate," says Renee Cade, Senior Manager of Brand & Communication of TCHO Chocolate. "As the line has grown, we saw an opportunity to create something bigger, a place where chefs, bakers, and makers can come for inspiration, explore flavor, and see what other creatives are doing with chocolate."
"At its core, we want TCHOpro to feel like a community of curious, adventurous people who love their craft, care about where their ingredients come from, and are always excited to discover what's next."
TCHOpro is also extending that experience beyond the website with the launch of its dedicated Instagram channel, @TCHOpro. The new social platform will give professionals another way to discover recipes, product inspiration, techniques, and ideas from TCHO and members of the professional culinary community.
Professionals can explore the new experience at TCHOpro.com and follow @TCHOpro on Instagram for ongoing inspiration and updates.
The launch comes as TCHO continues to expand its professional chocolate portfolio, which includes dark chocolate couverture, milk & white chocolate couvertures made with oat milk, chocolate batons, drinking chocolate, cocoa powder, roasted cocoa nibs, Liquid Chip, and chocolate chunks. Designed for chefs and pastry professionals, TCHO's chocolates are made in Berkeley, California, with a focus on flavor, ethical sourcing, functionality, and ingredient quality. All TCHO chocolate is 100% certified organic and fair trade and produced in a dairy-free facility.
Founded in 2007, TCHO Chocolate crafts award-winning and imaginative chocolate by collaborating directly with cocoa farmers at flavor labs across the world to grow better, more consistent cacao beans and create authentic craft chocolate to inspire the world's chefs and chocolate enthusiasts. Like wine or coffee, cacao's inherent flavors vary based on the territory where it's grown, as well as key processes—including fermentation and roasting—that influence the development of flavor.
Since not all cacao is created equal, TCHO established TCHO Source, a one-of-a-kind sourcing and educational partnership with farmers, co-operatives, and agronomists around the world. By installing eleven TCHO Flavor Labs in key cacao-producing locations, TCHO has turned its cocoa suppliers into co-creators. They're empowered to aid in developing industry cacao sensory analysis standards, conduct sensory training, develop standardized fermentation and drying processes, improve infrastructure, and share information throughout the world of cacao. This represents an evolution of the long-standing relationships TCHO has built supporting cacao farmers and their communities.
With collaboration and care, TCHO hand-selects every ingredient used to craft its award-winning chocolates for a great experience from first glance to last bite. Through its direct partnerships with farmers and co-operatives, TCHO brings transparency and traceability to its supply chain, so professional customers can feel confident knowing exactly where the ingredients they use come from. TCHO's professional line is used by chefs around the country and includes TCHOpro couverture, chocolate batons, drinking chocolate, cocoa powder, roasted cocoa nibs, and chocolate chunks. TCHO products are produced in Berkeley, Calif. To learn more about TCHO, visit tcho.com.
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