Mast Brothers roast their own cacao beans, and create amazing, intense, small batch, hand made, highly crafted chocolate. You can get an assortment of ten chocolates online, for the oh so serious chocolate aficionado. Impressive not only in flavor but presentation as well. All are hand wrapped, labeled, and dated.
Anyone who knows me well knows that I have a bit of a sweet tooth, with chocolate being on the top of my list. So when I think gifts, I think sweet. And although I can be completely satisfied with some plain old chocolate chips from the baking aisle of the market, this time of year, something a bit more fanciful and special seems in order to give to friends and family. Here are a handful of places that make some of the best chocolaty, sugary, carmely, marshmallowy stuff I can think of having or giving, any day of the year.
Fresh Recchiuti vanilla bean marshmallows lay atop tiny handmade graham crackers blanketed in pure bittersweet chocolate.
Master chocolate maker Enrique Cerda of Kallari Chocolate will deliver a presentation on the production of Cacao, and the story behind the 850 indigenous Kichwa families from the Ecuadorian Amazon who produce small batch chocolate in the Andes Mountains. A wine and beer pairing will follow.
