What makes it bad for us is not freezing our holiday chocolates in July. Yes, most chocolatiers make chocolates ahead for busy times of year, and they freeze them. We don't do that because we believe that chocolates taste best when you don't freeze, or make them too early. Regular chocolate (just plain) have an 18 month shelf-life, but chocolate can pick-up flavors, and they can also taste old in our opinion.
Our other downfall is that we make and package everything by hand, which takes time.
I love the type of chocolate equipment that has a chocolate waterfall. There's a conveyor belt that you put items on and it runs the items through the chocolate curtain. We don't have that, so you do get more chocolate on your chocolate covered cookies. The other equipment has blowers that blow extra chocolate off, and the chocolate is thinned so it can make the chocolate curtain.
Our customers think we make some of the best two pound boxes of chocolates around with: toffee, fudge, truffles, cranberry-almond bark, rocky road clusters, peanut butter cups,caramel squares, mint squares and peppermint bark, and chocolate covered cookies.
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