About Keylink
Keylink are specialist suppliers for chocolatiers, bakers, chefs and anyone working with chocolate. Whether you’re a budding chocolatier, a gelato aficionado, a seasoned baker or, you just fancy making some chocolate gifts for friends and family, we can help you to get up and running in no time.
Known initially for our imported, cream filled chocolates in the 1960s, we’ve been working with chocolate for quite some time! And while we no longer sell finished chocolates, we do supply a complete range of ingredients and décor products from some of Europe’s finest manufacturers and are now the premier supplier of chocolate, ingredients, equipment and packaging to the chocolate industry. We remain as passionate as ever about supplying high quality products with a large helping of great customer service!
We also understand that not everyone has years of experience working with chocolate ingredients, so that’s why we have a jam-packed Resources section, dedicated to helping and educating anyone working with chocolate and other sweet ingredients. Alongside this, you’ll find we also have a wealth of video content on our YouTube channel to help further educate and encourage anyone interested in chocolate!
The benefits of working with Keylink don't stop there. Our delivery service also ensures speedy arrival and peace of mind, at just £8+VAT for next working day delivery under £150. Any orders over £150 include free next working day delivery!
So, that’s us, in a nutshell! Give us a call or drop us an email and we’ll be happy to help and have a natter about all things chocolate.
Just Some of Our Suppliers...
We have long-standing partnerships with some of the leading suppliers across Europe. Click below to visit each of our Brand pages.
Chocolate & Couverture:
Cacao Barry
Regarded by many professionals in the industry as one of the best in the range, this brand is built on taste and inspiration. The Cacao Barry range of chocolate couvertures is produced in France and offers many different and amazing taste profiles, each with its own unique story.
Callebaut
Callebaut is well known and respected in our industry for the great taste and workability of their huge range of chocolate/couverture. Delivering consistency every time, this enables your finished creations to achieve and maintain the highest of standards.
Schokinag and Veliche™
Schokinag (previously DeZaan) offers high quality, competitively priced Belgian chocolate. Our range of Schokinag core grades has been a trusted favourite of many chocolatiers for over 25 years and some of our customers consider Schokinag to be a well-kept secret!
Veliche Gourmet Belgian chocolate (previously DeZaan Gourmet) enjoys a strong heritage of chocolate making. This range offers different taste profiles, from powerful, well balanced dark chocolate couvertures to the finest Belgian milk chocolate couvertures and a rich, creamy white chocolate; all perfect for artisan production.
Lubeca
Lubeca is a range of chocolate couvertures, premium marzipan, nuts and praline pastes. Their chocolates are made using specially selected cocoa varieties from Ghana, Venezuela, Trinidad, Madagascar and Peru. They are particularly known for their incredibly smooth mouthfeel and high shine, which is achieved by a lengthy conching process, ensuring a very clean and mellow taste. Lubeca is owned by the Friedrich Bluhme & Else Jebsen Foundation, a charitable organisation that donates their earnings to worthy projects in and around the city of Lübeck.
Luker Chocolate
Luker Chocolate is a range of chocolates and cocoa products made by passionate people in Colombia and its neighbouring countries.
They use International Cocoa Organisation classified “Fino de Aroma”, or “Fine Flavour” Criollo and Trinitario beans to make their chocolate, an exclusive title given to only the top 7-8% of the world’s cocoa.
The beans are harvested and made into chocolate in Colombia using cocoa butter from the same beans and local sugar, making all ingredients fully traceable.
Ingredients & Inclusions:
Ravifruit
Since 1981, Ravifruit has established itself as one of the world’s leading suppliers of frozen and ambient fruits to professionals in the catering sector and to industry. Amongst professionals, Ravifruit is increasingly acknowledged as producing the highest quality fruit purées in the world. Exclusive to Keylink.
Nutural World
Nutural World is a multi-award-winning artisan producer of high quality nut butters. Their products are produced in small batches, using traditional stone grinders. All of their products are certified vegan, Kosher and sugar-free, with no added salt, oil or artificial flavours.
Nigay
“The expert in caramels”, Nigay have been producing an enormous range of premium quality caramels for various applications for over 163 years. We supply Nigay caramel products for use in chocolate and gelato.
Kessko
A long-time supplier of couvertures and chocolate, including organic and a ‘better for diabetics’ range, and many other ingredients.
Candiflor
Crystallised flowers and petals made by sugar-coating real flowers.
Packaging:
Rythm
A leader in the European packaging market. Suppliers of bags, Kraft wrapping papers and pre-tied bows.
Rega
Suppliers of PET cartons and boxes. Keylink also work with a number of smaller packaging suppliers to bring you a great range to cover all your needs.
Culinary Alcohols:
Keylink are also proud to be the exclusive UK and Irish distributors for Rémy Cointreau Gastronomie, for their entire range of culinary alcohol concentrates including St Rémy XO Brandy, Cointreau®, and Mount Gay Rum, as well as Griottines® in Cointreau.
Looking for Chocolate Machinery?
Our sister company, KeyChoc can help - click here to visit the KeyChoc website.