Home, Sweet Home
Welcome to a magical place where wishes come true (yes, our chocolate is medicine) and miracles are the norm (yes, weโll customize and ship in time!)
From a sweet home where chocolate means Loving Kindness, and Integrity is our North Star. Holiday gifts handmade, wrapped, and shipped with Love by a mother-daughter team who care sincerely about you, your loved ones, your health, and your Spirit.
Thank you for supporting our small family business for nearly 18 years!
Our ingredients are organic (or wildcrafted), vegan, low-glycemic, nutritionally dense, and free of gluten, soy, dairy, peanuts, gmo, and anything artificial. We partner with mother nature and small producers to bring you what we like to call botanical alchemy: functional chocolate.
Since the first bar of chocolate I made for the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in 2006, Gnosis has grown 100% organically by word of mouth. We believe a company should invest only in the quality and integrity of its work - not in paid advertising. Our customers are our ambassadors!
Aurora Borealis Bar Arctic berries and botanicals
The Baton pistachio, hazelnut, chestnut, walnut*
The Tree Truffle spruce, pine pollen, cherry cordial
The CocoNutcracker coconut*
The Mouse King mylk creme with Earl Grey
Claraโs Slipper Truffle cherry, rose, sakura, vanilla creme
Spanish Dance Truffle paprika, saffron caramelized whyte
Chinese Dance Truffle mandarin oolong jujube caramel
Russian Dance Truffle Siberian cloudberry mint forest ganache
Arabian Dance Truffle cardamom + โcoffeeโ mylk creme + pistachio
The Celesta sugarplum jam, gingerbread mylk*
The Snow Queen dark velvet peppermint ganache*
Waltz of the Flowers Truffle jasmine orange blossom ganache
Gingerbread spiced date-sweetned bar
Marzipan Shepherdess Truffle marzipan stollen
Aphrodisia Truffle rose, nibs, ganache
The Nutcracker Prince salted caramel pecan*
Heart of Gold salted vanilla creme
Derived from the Danish word, โhรผga,โ โhyggeโ is translated as โthe art of creating intimacy,โ โcoziness of the soul,โ โcozy togetherness,โ and my personal favorite, โcocoa by candlelight.โ Hygge is about creating an atmosphere and experience. A feeling of homeโฆ wherever you may be.
Step into the quiet wonder of winterโs embrace, where the Arctic sky comes alive in a dance of vibrance and shadow. In this bar, we attempt to capture the poetry of nature at its most luminousโa celebration of the solstice, when the darkest night begins to yield to the promise of returning light.
We can enjoy - this moment - the infinite pleasures of their other-worldly tastes and aromasโฆ and we can consider the alchemy of their life-enhancing nutritional elements as a template for our futures. In doing so, we accept William Blakeโs invitation โTo see the world in a grain of sand and Heavโn in a wild flowerโฆ,โ modifying it only slightly: โTo taste the world in a truffle gem and Heavโn in a cacao elixirโฆโ
The Winter Solstice is full of potential for magic! Step out into the still air this Saturday, December 21st, 2024 at 4:20am Eastern, close your eyes and cast your senses. The Solstice is a wonderful opportunity to take advantage of the abundant energies and to also utilize certain ingredients that are very common this time of year.
James Clear in Atomic Habits stresses the difference between goals and strategies. Our New Yearโs resolutions are goals, but not all of us keep them because weโve not put in place strategies to achieve them. May we suggest two strategies to help you achieve your 2025 goals?
Surely, we all kvell as the menorah glows brighter each night, illuminating our rapt faces gathered โround, and conjuring up visions of the Hanukkah miracle. This year, the Hanukkah tradition has a new element: Gnosis brings us another miracle - on a smaller scale, to be sure! - but also quite memorable.
Drawing inspiration from the master artisans of Lauscha, the German village that birthed the tradition of glass-blown ornaments in the 16th century, Gnosian Adornments carry forward the legacy of craftsmanship. Like those early ornaments, originally molded and hand-painted to catch the flicker of candlelight, these treasures are designed to illuminate your home with warmth, wonder, and timeless elegance.
BARS
All bars - like all our creations - are made of minimally heated heirloom organic cacao, and are free of GMO, refined sugar, dairy, soy, gluten, & peanuts.
TRUFFLE-BARS
Our truffle-style bars have become very popular - thick, satisfying, and nourishing. Shells are freshly filled by hand in micro batches, like all our creations.
ELIXIRS
Weโve been giving chocolate a Gnosis Twist - infusing botanicals and medicinal mushrooms into heirloom cacao - since 2008. The Olmecs started in 1500BC!
BITES
A perfect treat for guests; serve on a platter - with fruit perhaps? Add to your own recipeโฆ or your purse! At 30% off, bite-sized pieces are eco and pocket-friendly!
Gnosis has always been at the forefront of innovation in natural sweeteners. We were among the first to craft chocolate with agave, then pioneered the use of pure stevia without fillers, and were the first to launch coconut sugar sweetened chocolate to the U.S. market.
Now, we continue this legacy by offering date-sweetened chocolate. Dates, nature's most ancient sweetener, are rich in nutrients and offer a harmony - sophisticated in its simplicity - between indulgence and wellness, elevating chocolate into a source of both sensory and nutritional richness.
Itโs impossible to say what this part of the world will look like in the centuries to come, or what sort of people will be bustling around at ground level, eating, quarrelling and telling each other stories. But itโs safe to say that whoever they are, somewhere nearby will be a stand of date trees, traveling gracefully through space and time without moving an inch.
DATES
Our newest sweetener!
COCONUT SUGAR
Our primary sweetener!
AGAVE
Where it all beganโฆ
STEVIA
Without fillers!
Since the first bar of chocolate I made for the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in 2006, Gnosis has grown 100% organically by word of mouth. We believe a company should invest only in the quality and integrity of its work - not in paid advertising - and that our customers become our ambassadors, if we are deserving. We do not use PR agencies, machines, or fillers (ingredient that does not have a specific health function).
We make our chocolate with Love, by hand, gift wrap every order, and use only clean, whole, organic, low-glycemic, vegan ingredients (no gluten, dairy, soy, peanuts, or GMO) and heirloom cacao beans sourced with great care. In fact, we visited our sources and were a founding member of the Heirloom Cacao Preservation Fund. We support Herbalists Without Borders. Access to herbal medicine is our birthright.
Gnosis is now producing our bars and elixirs for a few markets (should you wish to receive free chocolate for becoming an ambassador). Online is always the best place to find us - we have a great many seasonal creations and gift collections, all shipped directly from our kitchen in Astoria, NY.
We (my mother and I) could not be more grateful to be entering our 18th year of making chocolate for you! Thank you for voting with your voices and. purchases for the marketplace you wish to see!
Chocolate Girl Vanessa and her Mamma Wonka Aida make, package, and ship everything by hand in their New York City kitchen with so much Love!
Botanical - a substance obtained from a plant and used as an additive
Alchemy - a seemingly magical process of transformation, creation, or combination.
We only use low-glycemic, minimally processed sweeteners; coconut sugar, agave nectar, or stevia from farms Vanessa has visited.
After several years of ecommerce only, we are now reopening our wholesale program and would love to stock your local stores as we have in the past - bars $4.99 MSRP!
