No, it’s not an oxymoron; healthy chocolate is a thing! But before you go eating your body weight in Cadbury, not all chocolate falls into this category. The chocolate at Puremelt Chocolate Lounge is raw, fair trade, organic, cane sugar free, gluten free, preservative free and almost all dairy free meaning it’s essentially guilt free as well. The bite-sized morsels of happiness are made from scratch on the premises and the flavours and fillings are made from local, organic and seasonal ingredients like finger lime, ginger, macadamia, coconut and sour cherry.

The Puremelt Chocolate Lounge is the creation of Mullumbimby mum-of-three, Sarah Wheeler, who started making her own chocolate almost ten years ago, after her own health struggles as a tired older mum. On a nutritionist’s advice, Sarah added a daily 50-gram dose of 85 percent cocoa dark chocolate to her diet and found herself enjoying increased energy levels, better sleep and fewer migraines. Using just four ingredients – raw cacao, raw cacao butter, vanilla and a touch of dark agave, and never heating her ingredients above 45-degrees, Sarah’s chocolate retains all of its health giving enzymes, antioxidants, vitamins and minerals. Puremelt Chocolate Lounge also brews organic coffee, hot chocolates, chai and smoothies so if you’re up for a roadtrip in search of amazing artisan chocolate, this is your place.