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Trials of Making a Chocolate Business Plan
On By Andy Ciordia / 0 comments
Anyone who has ever developed and made a business succeed knows the difficulty involved. Entrepreneurship is both awesome and terrible at each and every stage along the way. For those who don’t really know us we’ve been in business to this point for three years in June. From a single market testing our truffles to now.. 4 markets, 5 retail accounts, a number of commercial clients, and our happy chocolate for weddings. Where does that leave us? Growing Pains, Kitchen Strains During the Christmas holiday rush this past year we... Read more
Chocolate Moments, Yours and Ours
On By Andy Ciordia / 0 comments
Last week I had my epiphany when asked ‘What is your favorite chocolate?’ I always seemed to not know. Really it would instill a sort of funny, ‘Well all of them are our favorites, why would we sell anything otherwise?’ internal dialog. The reality being so close to chocolate all the time the term favorite gets more granular, more delicious, because time and mood can play a factor. To this we ran a quick contest for people to tell us a moment and what kind of chocolate they would pair... Read more
Easy Chocolate Fudge
Easy Chocolate Fudge Recipe
On By Bill Dietz / 0 comments
A simple, scaleable, and delicious chocolate fudge recipe. I often get asked for some easy kid friendly chocolate recipes and this one is very straight forward. Read more
Favorite Chocolate Results
On By Andy Ciordia / 0 comments
Back at the beginning of the New Year we asked everyone what their favorite chocolate was. We had been working over the Winter months developing some new chocolate products based on our market feedback and wanted to hear from you. The results are in! Read more
White Chocolate Truffle, a Sinful Mystery
On By Andy Ciordia / 0 comments
What is white chocolate, and why should you care? What is white chocolate again? As chocolate fans (a family of fans) we thought white chocolate was just a simple byproduct of processing chocolate. For the uninitiated you take cocoa beans, roast and then grind them into what is known as a chocolate liquor. That liquor is then pressed, which releases the cocoa butter from the cocoa solids. Maybe a little simplified here but that’s the overall idea. Cocoa butter is then purified, given some milk, sugar, possibly the addition of... Read more
Boston Cream Pie Recipe
Boston Cream Pie Recipe
On By Karen Dietz / 0 comments
Family Birthdays Each year our children get their choice of dessert for their birthday. A Chocolate Bundt Cake for One This past November, Jason (our son-in-law) became the first one... Read more
Twelve, an Uptown Charlotte Holiday Market
On By Andy Ciordia / 0 comments
The Center City Green Market in Charlotte has been bouncing around the last couple of years uptown and while our own commitments have precluded us from being as involved as we’d like we still like to support local farms, artisans, and crafters in our region. Ted Boyd had a simple idea that took a lot of engineering to deliver. Take an empty box store in the center of the city and turn it into a beautiful holiday market. With little time to spare he and his team of volunteers pulled... Read more