The result is a collection of exquisite bonbons constructed out of raw chocolate, sweetened with coconut sugar, and adorned with healthy garnishes like açaí and goji berries.

When I asked Matthew, by email, to describe the flavor of Coracao Chocolate’s raw chocolate bonbons, he wrote back, in day-dreamy, Willy Wonka fashion, “Ahhh, the flavor! Is it the flavor of love itself??” I half expected him to break into song.

As you probably already know, what makes Willy Wonka’s factory special is that it's the only one in the world that churns its chocolate by waterfall. But what makes Coracao Confections’ bonbons special is that they're made from cacao beans that haven't been roasted above 115 degrees.

Left in its natural state, cacao retains all of the natural nutrients that vanish during the roasting process. Since the mid-2000s, dieticians and chocolate scientists have been promoting chocolate’s health benefits. “The flavanols in cacao help maintain a healthy vascular system,” Katherine Tallmadge, the spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association, explained to the SFBG. “[Flavanols] relax blood vessels, reduce blood clotting and oxidative damage, and they improve blood flow. There has been some suggestion that flavanols can be used to treat vascular diseases like dementia and pre-eclampsia in pregnant women.”

But Coracao chocolates are not only healthy; they are also socially sound, for Coracao Confections buys its organic, raw cacao beans from this company, which is a member of the Fair Trade Federation.

This is certainly more than Willy Wonka could say for himself. Remember Wonka’s diminutive tribe of Oompa-Loompas, “imported direct from Loompaland” to work in his factory? In the 1970s, a controversy erupted over these mythical people, who seemed to propagate the stereotype of the cheerful, efficient slave. Sadly, Dahl’s fictional chocolate serfs prefigured the horrifying child slavery that is going on for real in the Ivory Coast. For $1.49-$2.89 per bonbon, Coracao Confections’ chocolates may be somewhat pricy, but there’s a good reason why they cost more than a Hershey’s Kiss.

You can find these whimsically adorned chocolates at select Whole Foods in the Bay Area. Meanwhile, Matthew and Daniel will remain holed up in their miniature chocolate factory in Emeryville, churning out more of their exquisite bonbons and living their version of Willy Wonka’s dreamworld.