Craft Chocolate

If you take a stroll in Seoul sometime around the first week of November, you’ll quickly notice stalls and convenience stores putting out large displays of Pepero of all sizes …

Raw chocolate is often marketed as a superfood. It’s widely thought to have extra health benefits due to its higher nutritional content than conventional chocolate. But rather than strictly being …

Nobody says no to a fresh batch of homemade chocolate chip cookies. I mean, chocolate chips were literally made for chocolate chip cookies, after all. But what can you do when …

​The Northwest Chocolate Festival Award winners were just announced a couple weeks ago, so it seemed like the perfect time to post about my experience there. While I didn’t play …

The best chocolate covered espresso beans have a ratio of 2:1, chocolate to coffee beans— in my eyes that makes the chocolate twice as important as the coffee. So I …

Finding a reliable way to make hot chocolate without cocoa powder is hard work! Over the years I’ve perfected mine using my chosen coconut milk base, but feel free to …

Fair trade as a movement has a long history, and it didn’t actually start with Fair Trade cocoa or any other food product. In fact, it started with the roots of …

Back in 2014, before starting my chocolate blog, I wrote a long paper on the pros and cons of Fair Trade chocolate. There were several points on either side, and …

When you were younger, the many types of chocolate were all just sweet candies: nothing more, nothing less. But it turns out that the differences between the various chocolate types …

How do you like your hot chocolate; sweet? Salty? Savory? I’ve had all of the above from some of the best chocolate makers in the world, and now I want …