it’s our first birthday!

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One year ago Andrea and I were just getting our first batch of chocolate packaged and ready to go and wondering if there were enough people in the world who would share our passion for a great cup of hot chocolate.

Since then we have felt like two lucky girls as we’ve met so many fellow chocolate fans and shared our passion with you. As our first birthday rolls around, we can’t help but notice that we feel a huge debt of gratitude to all of you who have been a part of this first amazing year. Thank you. We’ve felt so lucky over and over again as we’ve chatted and met so many of you. You’ve made this year worthwhile.

now then.

it’s time to party.

Stop by our facebook page all week long to see what we have in store for our birthday week. We’ll have a new giveaway or steal of a deal every day. We’d love to have you jump in the fun.

01-16 Monday  ::  Pin It to Win It
Sign up for Pinterest.com if you haven’t already, then come back to this photo gallery. Choose to “pin” any photo here. We will choose one lucky pinner to receive a Hot Chocolate Entertainment Pack so you can host a hot chocolate night for you and 11 of your closest friends.
01-17 Tuesday   :: 2 on Tuesday
Today only, buy one of our Valentine two-packs and get the second for $2. Just enter coupon code 2tuesday at checkout.
01-18 Wednesday   :: Spoon it
Today only, receive $12 off your personalized Silverplated Spoon order.
01-19 Thursday   :: Thank You
Nominate someone you are thankful for on our Facebook page and we’ll choose someone to win a gift card to our shop.
01-20 Friday   :: Forever Young!
Receive 29% off your entire order at Ticket Chocolate (that’s right, not 30 but 29%). Just enter coupon code “29forever” during checkout. Today only.

[photo credit: Amberlee Fawson]

ticket on amy atlas

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The forever talented Paula of Frog Prince Paperie put together a wintery and warm hot chocolate bar featuring our Hot Chocolate Ticket Sticks and a lot of other tempting goodies.

Don’t you love those “haute cocoa” labels? You can find them in Paula’s shop, along with every other completely beautiful tag and label you’ll need for an instant party.

Be sure to check out the full shoot over at Amy Atlas Events. Photography by John McLaughin Photography.

new flavors

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Our new flavors are officially in the shop. I thought you might like to meet them one by one.

Say hello to our new Vanilla Mint Ticket Sticks. I’m kind of gaga over this flavor.

We start with a perfect warm creamy Belgian milk chocolate and add a hint of bright mint and bits of warm Bourbon vanilla beans. Like all our chocolates, our Vanilla Mint Ticket Sticks are handmade, and while the chocolate is still warm, a mint napolitain is tucked into the chocolate block. Ya. It’s kind of awesome. The milk chocolate for these sticks are 37% cacao.

Our Salted Caramel chocolate has a perfect caramely flavor that is just enough to shine but still give center stage to the incredible Belgian milk chocolate that carries the stick. We’ve topped it with course grain Celtic sea salt. It makes the most incredible pairing. I love to lick the stick right before it’s completely melted and get that crunchy salt against the smooth melting chocolate.

Our Salted Caramel is 40% cacao, at the dark edge of the milk chocolate range, and you can pick it up at 20% off this week and next at our Preorder sale. I’d love for you to give it a try.

Milk chocolate fans, rejoice.

Meet our Belgian Milk Ticket Stick. The cup of milk hot chocolate it creates is impossibly creamy and has this great whisper of toffee that finishes the experience. Pretty intese.

And finally, something a little special. We cooked up a little plan this summer. We decided that each year for the next three years, we’ll be introducing a limited-source chocolate from a South American country. We’re calling the line Tres Tazas.

And after receiving feedback from our testers, we’ve decided this year to bring Tres Tazas of…


70% bittersweet Venezuelan chocolate to your mug.

So why Venezuelan chocolate? Venezuela cultivates the world’s finest and most revered cacao. It’s a type of cacao bean called criollo. It represents only 1% of cacao grown around the world. And it is good stuff. In fact, just down the hill from my Venezuelan home, at Lake Maracaibo, is the spot some believe to be the cradle of the world’s first cacao, and the spot where this fine cacao is grown to this day.
Fine cacao has hundreds of flavor compounds that emerge naturally as you taste. Our Venezuelan chocolate is a well-rounded bittersweet chocolate, it has a moderate to low bitterness and features flavor notes of classic cocoa, warm spices, raisins, and  lightly green bananas. Mmm.

And make sure you stop by the shop to see what other combos we’ve put together for you.

[photo credits: Debbie Rackham of Spicerack. styled by: Amberlee Fawson]