No, we are not going to do a pub crawl of all that Brooklyn has to offer. As much fun as that would be, this is about chocolate-and fun.
A chocolate bar is a novel. The story starts with the wrapper. Perhaps the candymaker (chocolatier, artisan, out of work actor or son of a son of a candymaker) wants to reference a charity, make you feel sophisticated or simply let you know what is in store for you.
In 2006 we decided to revamp our chocolate bars. More and more of our customers were appreciating high cacao chocolate, bars with inclusions ( chocolate + stuff), and chocolate bars with personalized wrappers.
Once we decided on the varieties, we new we needed new chocolate bar wrappers. We turned to our dear friend Leslie Kameny of Kameny Designs. Leslie has a great eye and a wonderful sense of humor. We gave her one word “fun”. The rest is history. We couldn’t be happier with the results.
As of now we have 10 varieties:
- 72%-high cacao content dark chocolate. Intense, rich and satisfying
- Spicy-70% dark chocolate + jalapeño oil + ground cinnamon = a hot and spicy good time
- Marcona-Venezuelan high cacao milk chocolate with Marcona almonds, seasoned with sea salt
- Venezuela 43.5-Notes of caramel and vanilla describe this single origin chocolate
- Ginger-68% dark chocolate with crystallized ginger + Virginia peanuts
- Orange-White chocolate with orange essence + spanish orange peel
- Milk Fudge-Milk chocolate filled with our own kitchen fresh fudge
- Dark Fudge-Dark chocolate filled with our own kitchen fresh fudge
- Nibbela-68% dark chocolate with South American cacao nibs
- Cranberry Nut-68% dark chocolate with cranberries, pecans, almonds, raisins, and pepitas
- Cinnamon Coffee-Can you imagine life without cinnamon, coffee, or chocolate? We can’t
Our story is far from complete. Although we love the wrappers, and our bar varieties, we think this story will have many sequels. We expect to offer more single origins, more interesting flavor combinations, and more fun. We will also be introducing our first organic bars very soon.
Please let us know your suggestions.
Remember: Life Tastes Better with Chocolate.
Confectionately,
Michael
Michael@JoMartChocolates.com