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  • Buy some chocolate?

    Need a Seth Ellis chocolate fix? Here’s a quick guide to where you can buy our stuff.

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  • First Chocolate

    Ever wonder what a ton and half of chocolate looks like? Wonder no more!

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  • Fear and Loathing in Chocolateland

    There’s a fairly vigorous, if rather one-sided, conversation happening on the net about whether chocolate manufacturers should be able to substitute fats other than cocoa butter in chocolate products and still call the result “chocolate.” (Say “vegetable oil” in a shocked, hoarse, sotto voce whisper.)

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  • Building a chocolate shop: progress, electrics, mold

    Construction projects seem to go in spurts. We spend lots of time planning, waiting for ordered supplies, waiting for subs to show up, waiting for approvals, and generally worrying about how slowly things are going. Then it seems like everything is happening at once. This is a happening-at-once week.

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  • Building a chocolate shop: concrete

    When we started shopping for a worrk space to lease, having adequate drainage for cleaning was on our feature shopping list. Almost none of the spaces we looked at had floor drains, and those that did had them in inconvenient places, usually under a water heater or next to a toilet. To make our current space usable …

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  • Building a chocolate shop: blank slate

    We need to start by tearing out all the stuff we don’t want in the space we’re moving into. The beginning point is a demolition plan for the city.

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  • Building a chocolate shop: location

    We’ve been busy. From a standing start, we’re creating a chocolate shop. In this series of postings, we’re going to try and give you a peek into some of the interesting steps along the way. We’ve tracked through a lot of possible places looking for a good place to set up our shop, and we think we’ve found a winner.

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About us

enrobed candied lemon

We're a small chocolate manufacturer in Boulder, Colorado. We're striving to create gorgeous, sensational-tasting chocolates from the finest organic and natural ingredients. Read more about who we are, what's driving us and more about our story..

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Chocolates

enrobed mint truffle

Take a quick tour through our starting line-up. you'll find mint, raspberry and coffee enrobed truffles, a sophisticated ginger molded truffle, our signature nutmeg caramel snobinette and a tangy, fresh-tasting slice of candied lemon enrobed in dark chocolate.

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Our shop

Enrobed raspberry truffle

We're in production, and are busily producing chocolate for our wholesale customers. Here's a guide to retail outlets (mostly around Boulder and Denver) selling our chocolates. If a store isn't close by, you can buy our chocolates from a wonderful on-line site run by some friends in the Boulder area, It's Only Natural Gifts, where you'll find all sorts of eco-friendly gifts and goodies.

Do keep checking back here, as we'll be posting news and progress pictures from the shop. And, if you're in our neighborhood, near Conestoga and Arapahoe in Boulder, please stop in!