Most chocolate is made with ingredients that simply shouldn’t be there. We strip everything back to the essentials — where simplicity, design and process matter.
Where MayHawk began
MayHawk was established in London in 2007. We have always made chocolate the hard way, through unhurried restraint and a commitment to using only natural ingredients.
Our chocolate comes from ethically sourced single-origin cocoa beans and other raw ingredients. After sorting the cocoa beans we roast, winnow, stone-grind and conche them, using methods refined over twenty years. Those lessons are in everything we make.
One company, two studios
MayHawk takes a fully integrated approach to chocolate making — we make everything we can in-house, at every stage. From the outset we have worked as two studios, the Chocolate Studio and the Design Studio, with a shared sense of curiosity and a willingness to learn.
The Chocolate Studio
Lacto-fermenting blueberries in reusable vacuum bags
The Chocolate Studio is where we study natural ingredients and develop the recipes and methods that follow.
We’ve built a place where ideas are nurtured, never rushed. Much of our time goes into just a few ideas — pairings and flavour profiles, methods of preserving, and iterating on all the small refinements that make a difference.
Creating something new is easy, making something better is hard.
The Design Studio
Original packaging artwork produced in the studio
The Design Studio gives our work its form. Nearly everything that needs design is made here: the website, the photography, the original artwork, the packaging and its die-cuts…
Environmental thinking runs through all of it. We are aware that there is an acute responsibility that comes with making a product. Materials are chosen for recyclability and closed-loop production. Simplicity governs the rest. Every element serves its purpose.
Where our values lead
The principles behind our chocolate don’t stop at our products. They run through where the cacao comes from, how we make it, and what we leave behind.