We make award winning, handcrafted chocolate with care and dedication.
The worlds best chocolate!
Several awards from the International Chocolate Awards through the last years (2017-2023) - winner 6 years in a row, and most winning in the World Final 2023!
We are very proud of our international accomplishments and recognitions. But we also love it when we get feedback from people who try our chocolates for the first time and say things like:
«I have never tasted anything like this – it is amazing!»
Through the years we have developed many delicious chocolate bonbons and we offer them in beautiful gift boxes:
HOW DID IT HAPPEN...
... that the WORLD'S BEST chocolate is made in a reconstructed barn in Selbu, Trøndelag?
The years since 2015 – when it all started - has been like a fairytale for us at Jentene på Tunet.
It all began with Iris & Eivind, running a conference center, wanting to give their guests something extra. She started out making some chocolate products and the bonbons were an immediate success. Some asked if they could buy something to take home to share with their family, others asked where the products could be bought
Iris had a flair for flavors and creativity. Eivind, her husband, had many years of experience in sales and marketing. Right from the start this was a killer combination!
A CHOCOLATE FACTORY
Iris and Eivind expanded the chocolate- part of the company and after a while they took the leap; they opened a chocolate factory, closing the other parts of the business down. More people were included in the production and selling.
Eivind grew up on a farm in Selbu. Through his childhood and before the barn was renovated, it looked like this:
After countless hours of work, the factory and café building now looks like this:
With time, we have had to expand twice due to high demand and our factory has become a signal building in the area.
The factory is a wonderful, almost magical place to work and the smells that stream out of the kitchen gives associations to Roald Dahl's amazing Willy Wonka factory.
The café area is modern, cozy and has a chocolate counter filled with colorful chocolate bonbons. Here you can enjoy a cup of coffee both indoors and out in our patio with a wonderful view of the Norwegian countryside.
For our younger guests we offer a playroom with beautiful wallpaper, a slide, coloring activities, books and toys. We want this to be a good place to be both for adults as well as for children!
VALUES
Everything that happens in the factory, is implemented with focus on the four core values that Iris and Eivind worked out at the beginning of their chocolate journey.
These four values are: Quality, Creativity, Handcraft and Taste.
QUALITY
We produce high quality chocolate bonbons, using high quality ingredients. We use cream and butter from local farms, hazelnuts from Piemonte, Pistachio nuts from Iran and long-cooked licorice from Finland, just to mention a few.
Our main supplier of chocolate is Valrhona. They buy cocoa beans and turn them into high quality chocolate; smooth and rich in taste. Not only do they supply us with the best chocolate ingredients, they give the cocoa farmers good prices and long-term contracts. This creates stability. In addition to this, Valrhona builds schools for the farmers children. This is sustainability at its best!
Valhrona is B-corp certified, which means that they meet the highest standards of social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability.
When we make our bonbons, we take our time. It takes three days from we start the production of a piece of chocolate until the bonbon is finished, ready to be placed in one of our beautiful boxes.
When you buy a box of chocolate from us, we want you to feel that this really is something special. So high quality packaging has also been important for us. We believe that this will help you value and enjoy our products even more.
CREATIVITY
If you have ever seen one of our chocolate counters with the different colored and shaped chocolate bonbons, you will know that creativity is important for us. However, we do keep true to our other value: TASTE. It is important for us that you love the taste as well as the creativity when you enjoy our bonbons.
Iris is a creative artist. She finds a high-quality ingredient and explores its potential. New products come out of this process. Some ingredients can be used for more than one product.
Long-cooked licorice from Finland combined with high quality chocolate for example, has become a whole series of products we have named Lakrislykke, meaning Licorice happiness.
HANDCRAFT
This is not a factory with machines. We paint by hand, spray by hand and in all steps of the process, there are hands involved.
What you find here is people. Iris and Eivind often attributes their success to two factors: Outstanding products and excellent people. The emphasis on this has paid off. People from all over Norway and Europe keep ordering and buying our products. There are more and more shops selling our products as well.
Among our best-selling gift boxes are the Northern Light Chocolate products! Each chocolate bonbon is painted by hand with the colours of the beautiful Northern Light. The girls use a unique technique develloped by Iris, who grew up in Lofoten in the Northern parts of Norway - right under the dancing Northern Light.
TASTE
This is our most important core value - we embrace and love great taste!
And our chocolates taste as good as they look. We believe that high quality taste is good for the health as well - for example, we do not add any extra sugar, we use pure cacao fat and no palm oil etc. High quality ingredients last longer with our taste buds. Split a bonbon from one of our boxes with your friend and enjoy the taste!
One bite will leave you with the urge to have another bite – and another and another!
THE CHOCOLATE TASTING EVENT
We offer chocolate tasting events online and onsite.
Our program lasts for about 1,5 hours and includes our history, how our suppliers work producing the raw cocoa and raw chocolate ingredients. We follow up with how we make our chocolate and then we taste our way through a wide range of chocolate; from raw cocoa to the white chocolate made of cocoa fat.
Please, go to “Aktiviteter” to see when our next event will be!
The chocolate tasting is a very popular happening. We also offer this in English for international groups.
MEETING ROOMS
We offer meeting facilities for businesses. Many groups conduct their meetings here in Selbu, and they often end the day with our Chocolate Tasting event.
We are located only 35 minutes from the airport (Værnes), 60 min from Trondheim.
ORDER CHOCOLATE FROM OUTSIDE OF NORWAY
Is this exactly what you have been looking for?
Would you like to order? We ship our delicious, Norwegian handcrafted chocolate abroad!
Are you curious if we ship to your location? Go to our online store, put a chocolate box in your cart (Handlevogn) and go to check out (Kasse). Press the “Choose country”-button and see if you find your country there.
We hope you do and that we can send you boxes of delicious chocolate!
WOULD YOU LIKE TO SELL OUR PRODUCTS?
We wish to expand our reach so that more people can enjoy Norwegian handcrafted chocolate!
Are you a merchant and interested in selling our products?
Let’s talk!
Contact us at [email protected]
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