Maker's Notes

I wanted to address a comment that I received about the health benefits of dark chocolate…it wasn’t wrong, but it wasn’t the entire picture either. The comment stated that to receive any health benefits from chocolate it had to be...

Say whaaattt? Excuse me! Your chocolate costs HOW much? We get it. When you’re accustomed to paying $2.50 in the supermarket aisle for your favourite chocolatey treats, you might be wondering why on earth anyone would pay $16 for a...

I remember the first time I tried craft chocolate—it was back in 2011, a Mast Brothers bar that I’d picked up from the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market in San Francisco. Having just graduated with a Visual Communications design degree, of...

A customer asked me the other day, whether it would be possible for me to write an article about what to expect when buying craft chocolate. It’s a fabulous question, with a super complicated answer. Part of that complication comes...

Many chocolate shops in Australia and around the world could be classified as chocolatiers—this means buying in chocolate that has been pre-made (often in Switzerland, Belgium or in France) called couverture. Couverture is often made and blended* for a consistency...