History

The dutch founders Mirjam Schroeder and Toussaint Claessens, founders of Chocolate Company, started the first Chocolate Company on 15 August 2004 in the German city of Aachen, just across the Dutch/German border. It was in the little kitchen in Aachen that we came up with the idea of the Hotchocspoon and produced the first spoon, back in late 2004, early 2005.

Up until then we had been making various flavoured chocolate drinks in large hotpots, which had to be filled, the chocolate had to be brought to taste and then the hotpots had to be cleaned again on a daily basis. Too laborious, the ever creative Toussaint thought. Surely there must be an easier way. Something like single serve portions. Et voilà! The Hotchocspoon was born. Back then we used to call it "The world's best hot chocolate on a spoon". Over the years this name became shorter and shorter...