A decade of sweetness

Whew, ten years! In some ways they flew and we can’t believe it, in other ways we are overcome with gratitude for all of the growth, gifts, changes and challenges and the years have brought us. What bounty!

From our humble beginnings subletting a commercial kitchen space one day a week, to signing a lease on that very space and building out our cozy, tiny Factory Shop, to vending at the Brattleboro Farmers Markets and attending regional festivals, to finding a distributor and introducing our wares to specialty food shops, to navigating COVID and moving our shop online, to recently signing a lease on our downtown flagship store and tasting room, our head spins to think of how far we’ve come.

And we owe it all to you

Our customers, retail partners, employees, family and friends, you have all made this possible. We can not begin to tell you how thankful we are!

And so we threw a party

One way to show our gratitude was to gather our community who has seen us through the thick and thin of the last decade, and treat them to some chocolate bites and sips. We inaugurated our tasting room with a buffet of sweetness, put on some vinyl, set out some temporary tattoos of magical forestscapes for guests to adorn themselves. Friends from far and wide came to raise a glass, and as the place filled up and festive folks spilled out into the atrium and filled it with laughter and conversation, we found ourselves overwhelmed with all of your goodwill. Thank you to all who came, and those too far away who couldn’t be here, but were in spirit.

Here’s the menu for the party, click on the links to see recipes:

• Chocolate Charcuterie board with local cheeses, fruits, jams, preserves, crackers and bread

• Cacao Nib Spritzers over ice garnished with herbs from our garden

• Chilled botanical drinking chocolate imbued with lavender, rose, calendula and hibiscus, served over ice

• Brown butter rye shortbread with Rouge Bar chunks (dark chocolate, raspberry, hibiscus, pink peppercorn)

We also used a couple of our savory bonbons in creative combinations:

• Sungold tomato, purple basil and smoked maple dark chocolate ganache skewers with fresh mozzarella balls

• Black garlic and sesame Total Eclipse dark chocolate bonbons with kalamata olive skewers