Jill R.
6/10/2025
Learned about this bean to bar chocolate magic place on PBS Taste Makers. Sought out the store while in Springfield. Just the smell of the place is heaven! Tasted two varieties and bought them...
Askinosie Chocolate
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514 E Commercial St
Springfield, MO 65803
In 2005, Shawn Askinosie left a successful career as a criminal defense lawyer to start a bean to bar chocolate factory and never looked back. Askinosie Chocolate is a small batch, award winning chocolate factory located in Springfield, Missouri, sourcing 100% of their beans directly from farmers. The only chocolate maker working directly with cocoa farmers on four continents, Shawn travels to regions of Ecuador, Honduras, the Philippines and Tanzania to source cocoa beans for his chocolate. This allows the chocolate to be traced to the source and labeled authentic single origin. It also enables Askinosie Chocolate to profit share with the farmers, giving them a "Stake In the Outcome," a principle he learned from author/entrepreneur Jack Stack. The Askinosie Chocolate mission is to serve their farmers, their neighborhood, their customers and each other, sharing the Askinosie Chocolate experience by leaving the world a better place than they found it.
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4.528 reviews
Philip L.
4/17/2025
One of the few American bean-to-bar chocolate makers that actually has the skills & quality ingredients, and not just marketing. Tanzania and Davao dark chocolate bars are high cacao content and...
Melissa C.
7/26/2023
Chocolate! Chocolate! Chocolate! Askinosie is in a large, old building in a historic area of town. The shop has lots of character! We visited on a Sunday, and only one person was working the...
Keith L.
8/13/2025
Interesting place/location which makes it a destination. Chocolate is high quality at an above average price. It's mostly chocolate bars of different types not a typical assorted type shop with...
Rachel P.
12/27/2023
The retail space is quite small, but the smells are BIG. We were greeted warmly and offered samples as we decided what to get for ourselves and for gifts. We tried/purchased a white chocolate with...
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