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Chocolate,
made with intention.

Pure, kind and beautiful bean-to-bar chocolate made from ethically sourced cacao, organic ingredients and a deep respect for where food comes from.

Explore the chocolate → Meet Living Lotus
✿Vegan & gluten-free
◇Ethically sourced cacao
○Refined sugar-free
Living Lotus chocolate bars with cacao beans
Living Lotus hummingbird chocolate with flower petals
From bean to bloom.Chocolate with delicate botanicals, floral detail and nuanced cacao flavour.
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The Living Lotus philosophy

Whole ingredients.
Whole experience.

Chocolate begins long before the wrapper. Living Lotus starts with cacao beans sourced with care, then cracks, winnows, grinds, conches and tempers them into chocolate in small batches.

3–4simple ingredients in the core bars

The result is a cleaner expression of cacao — without unnecessary additives — where the origin, aroma and natural flavour of the bean are allowed to take centre stage.

100%plant-based decadence
Core collection

A bar for every
kind of craving.

Three expressions of Living Lotus: creamy oat milk, caramel-toned blonde, and cacao-forward dark chocolate.

Living Lotus oat milk chocolateCreamy · Plant based

Oat Milk
Chocolate

$12.99
Smooth · mellow · cacao-rich
50g · Vegan
Living Lotus blonde chocolateGolden · Delicate

Blonde
Chocolate

$12.99
Cacao butter · oat · coconut sugar
50g · Vegan
Living Lotus dark chocolateBold · Single origin

70% Dark
Chocolate

$12.99
Banana · floral · herb
50g · Ecuador
Audrey Wong, Living Lotus founder
Cacao beans in hands
Founder & chocolate maker

Joy, curiosity and a very serious love of chocolate.

Living Lotus grew from founder Audrey Wong’s belief that what we eat and how we feel are deeply connected. That curiosity led from whole-food desserts to the cacao bean itself — and eventually to making chocolate from scratch.

“We believe in synergy — that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.”

Read Audrey’s story →
Audrey Wong
Founder & Chocolate Maker
Bean to bar

The flavour lives in the process.

Every stage is an opportunity to protect and develop the nuanced character already present in the cacao.

01

Source

Fine cacao is chosen from growers and origins where the bean’s flavour and the farmer’s work both matter.

02

Crack & winnow

The beans are carefully broken and separated into cacao nibs — the heart of the chocolate.

03

Grind & refine

Nibs are stone-ground until they become fluid, silky chocolate with a rounded flavour profile.

04

Temper & mould

The chocolate is finished, moulded and wrapped into Living Lotus’s botanical signature bars.

Living Lotus blonde chocolate bars with flowers and fern
Beautiful by nature

Chocolate that looks as special as it tastes.

The moulds are an extension of the Living Lotus philosophy: birds, leaves and flowers pressed into every bar, turning a simple piece of chocolate into something tactile, botanical and memorable.

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GFGluten free
OrganicIngredients
Slow down & taste

Chocolate as a ritual.

Look, listen, smell, melt. Good chocolate gives you more when you give it a moment.

Hummingbird chocolate with yellow flower
Tasting notes

Let the cacao speak.

Room temperature chocolate reveals more aroma, texture and origin character as it melts.

Close-up of Living Lotus blonde chocolate botanical mould
The details

Beauty in every mould.

A botanical landscape is embossed into the bars — a subtle invitation to notice the craft before the first bite.

Added to your tasting bag.