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Here a few shots of SOME of our product line-up for Valentine’s Day. Our email newsletter edition regarding the holiday for all love-birds is coming out this week and will feature all specials. Subscribe if you don’t ant to miss it!
We have made up our minds and these are the exciting specials for this year’s Mother’s Day:
We are very excited about our new tea blend. It presents a soothing and slightly sweet blend of organic and fair trade certified black tea, rooibos, vanilla, chocolate bits, and coconut. The nose is slightly tropical and nutty with a rich coating of butterscotch on the palate.
Also very exciting is the limited edition Cointreau chocolate. This is a great candidate for our year-round assortment, but - as always - we let you decide whether to keep it year-round or not.
You will find more detailed information about our Mother’s Day specials in our upcoming newsletter (sign up here) and in our online shop.
Thanks for reading - and Happy Mother’s Day!
As we try to play catch-up with the time after Easter, we are also thinking about Mother’s Day Specials for you. Of course we are running behind and I don’t have any images yet, but by the end of the week we should be all set. We did try some other ideas earlier this week and here is a photo of some marzipan roses we did:
These were beautiful to look at, but since they are so intricate and detailed, they take very long to make. We are still debating whether to offer the roses or not - stay tuned for our next newsletter to find out!
We are making more marzipan products almost weekly - the reason you don’t find them in our online shop is, that they are made to order and sometimes it takes a few days to fit them in the production schedule. If you need some special marzipan products, just let us know - meanwhile we are working on a system to offer more marzipan articles in the online shop as well.
That’s it for today. I will be writing again, as soon as I have more pictures and we finalized our Mother’s Day Specials - one hint: It’s going to be tea-licious 
Yes, we are wearing green today 
No, we are not coloring our chocolate green (or with any other color for that matter!) However, we are enrobing quite a few chocolates today in preparation for this week. Easter is on the way and we spent all weekend making Easter Eggs and Bunnies - all of them are already sold though! I guess we will be making more tomorrow …
Our Rocher Eggs are made with the same delicious caramelized almond/dark chocolate mix than our Christmas Trees around Christmas - if you enjoyed those, you might want to consider to get your egg (or you have to wait until Christmas - and it’s a looong wait )
Some impressions from last weekend:
What is he telling his friends?!
Eggs everywhere! It is a nice sight though and it’s great to see the smile on people’s faces when they get their own ….
Oh, and here is a little story:
So, we met a fellow German, who came by to check out our production and discuss an order. He realized that we make and work with marzipan and saw the bunnies and asked if he could have one. Sure! - I said and handed it to him …. The next moment, the bunnies head was gone ….. then the paws and finally (not a minute had past) there was nothing left.
Now, don’t be surprised - this is actually how it is supposed to be. Not only is the marzipan bunny nice to look at - but it tastes even better!
So, if you are planning on getting a Rocher Egg with Easter Bunny, then please, don’t feel bad at all and EAT the Bunny!
To all of you the best! And don’t forget to wear green today!
We survived another Valentine’s Day. Has it really been that crazy? Yes it has
But after a long day, we enjoyed our own Valentine’s Dinner with friends at the City Square Cafe in Manassas and it was time to relax and recap all the events the prior days.
One of our personal highlights was to have the opportunity to serve the needs of the Inn at Little Washington in Virginia:
We also made some custome confections for the City Square Cafe’s Valentine’s Day dessert, which is pictured here:
They are dark and white chocolate hearts, about an inch in diameter and they were used to decorate the strawberry-filled crepe - YUMM!
This week we will make more ganaches (since we are almost completely sold out) and prepare to make our new Spring flavors (recipes are finished and the new flavors will be announced soon) as well as prepare the first Easter specials. Our marzipan bunnies will make a comeback, but we’ll also have some new surprises for you ….
That’s it for today, don’t forget to eat some more chocolate!
Yes, I got the site and the online shop all wrapped up for Father’s Day. It took about 2.5 hours and I am glad its done. We will also send out our newsletter tonight, which highlights our specials a little bit. Overall I am very pleased with the flavor of the whiskey chocolates, today I added slightly more whiskey than last time - I am sure no-one will mind
We made all ganaches today and ran almost out of boards to put them on. Tomorrow we will first cut & separate the ganaches and then go on to enrobing, probably after lunch. We will enrobe for approx. 3 hours and then pack boxes until dusk….. We still have a lot to do before we leave to Italy on Monday. While we are gone, the office will be staffed by Cyndy.
That reminds me that I wanted to see if I can ‘rent’ a laptop for the time we are gone. That would make things much easier on the go …. the house we are staying in does not have phone or internet (!) ….
