Work’s done for the day. You get home, change into comfy clothes, start the fire, turn on your favorite playlist or movie, and sit down with a cup of delicious hot chocolate. A modern Currier and Ives winter moment.

In Utah, the chances are that cup of hot chocolate is Stephen’s Gourmet Hot Cocoa. But what’s the story behind Stephen’s? It begins with Stephen Story, a food scientist, who earned his Food Science and Technology degree from Brigham Young University.

Blessed with a personal love for homemade cocoa and a perfect taste pallet, Stephen Story started mixing hot chocolate blends in his home kitchen.  With quality ingredients he developed variations of hot chocolate that became a novel Christmas gift for his  neighbors and friends. The response was overwhelmingly positive. It was a new and different cocoa and people started gifting it to friends at Christmas. It soon grew into a  business.

The Story’s son, Dallin, was born with cerebral palsy, so Stephen and his wife, Jan, saw Stephen’s Hot Cocoa as an avenue to create financial support for Dallin’s future.  

Story believes the gourmet cocoa was a success because it’s a Utah product, it’s a quality product made with only the finest ingredients, and because of its connection to Dallin. 

The multi-flavored, high-quality coca industry didn’t exist before Stephen Story started the industry.  Story describes himself as an “idea guy” and with his entrepreneurial spirit and love for product research and development he has created other businesses. Stephen Story is currently a Co-Founder & the CEO of ModBalls, a healthy, clean energy snack made from all-natural ingredients.

Story sold the Stephen’s Gourmet Coca trademark, marketing rights and brand in the U.S. to Farmington-based Indulgent Foods who is carrying on the legacy of innovative cocoa flavors.

Milk Chocolate cocoa is their most popular flavor, but Indulgent Foods offers a wide variety of gourmet flavors, using only the finest cocoa sustainably farmed in Ghana.

Feeling adventurous? Try a new flavor--there are so many to choose from! 

•    Chocolate Mint Truffle 

•    European-inspired Dark Chocolate 

•    Peanut Butter Cup 

•    Salted Caramel

•    Chocolate Raspberry

•    Old Fashioned Chocolate Malt

•    Mexican Chocolate

•    White Chocolate

•    S’mores Cocoa

•    Candy cane Cocoa with real crushed peppermint candy canes

•    Citrus & Spice Wassail

Stephen’s Gourmet Hot Cocoa is a strong national brand and is available at national chain grocery stores and online.

So go ahead, put your feet up and sip the magic.