Chocolate Adventures

In these strange times of constant lockdown, small chocolate businesses need our support now more than ever. So in an effort to make your shopping …

Couverture chocolate is well-known within the chocolate industry, and without it, most of your favorite chocolate shops would have never gotten started. This strange stuff– …

You’ve almost certainly seen cacao nibs on the shelf at your local market, and you probably understand that they have some connection to chocolate. But …

Baking with chocolate can be a ton of fun or a total disaster— my goal here is to give you the complete confidence to be …

How are cacao and cocoa different? Which is healthier, cocoa or cacao? Do cocoa and cacao taste the same? As a chocolate writer, I get …

We’ve all run into ingredients in chocolate that we couldn’t recognize, much less wanted to put into our bodies: E492, vanillin, cocoa butter substitute, artificial …

Before visiting these dozen or so Denver chocolate shops, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from the Mile High City. I knew there were …

We’re all familiar with chocolate, as a flavor, a food, and in some cases, and obsession (see: me). But when you’re looking at the back …

Rather than chocolate, Boulder, Colorado is known for rock climbing, yoga, and incredibly expensive real estate. Yet the city is also home to ChocoLove Chocolate …

In another installment of my Chocolate Basics Series, this primer on cocoa butter is a deep dive into one of the most important ingredients in …