One of my favorite spring traditions growing up was waking up Easter morning to a table spread full of meats and cheeses to top our Easter egg sandwiches, and then having my dad bringing each of us a cup of hot chocolate to go with it.

So in celebration,

this weekend and next only in the shop
Feb 27–March 3
&
March 6–9

SAVE 40%
on sweet treats
to warm up your spring

USE COUPON CODE SUNSHINE40 at checkout

xo
AmberLee

We have a little something new and festive in the shop today. Say hello to our two new holiday hot chocolates.

I’m more than a little excited for our Spiced Gingerbread Hot Chocolate.

The couverture we use for our new Spiced Gingerbread is a personal favorite. At 64% cacao, it walks the line between dark and bittersweet. It is dangerous, oh so dangerous.

We blend this deep dark couverture chocolate with ginger, cinnamon, and seasonal spices, and top it with a stick of crystallized ginger. I think it makes for the perfect mulled mug of winter hot chocolate.

But wait. We have one more hot chocolate all dressed up and ready to greet your holiday guests.

Say hello to our Classic Peppermint Hot Chocolate.

Our Classic Peppermint hot chocolate, besides being kinda cute, is super creamy milk chocolate

with a stick of old-fashioned peppermint. It is quite the creamy peppermint hot chocolate experience.

Pick up one for yourself, gift it in a 3-pack with a letterpressed coaster and satin bow, or serve it at your next holiday bash.

Both flavors are on sale in the shop today.

Hello fellow chocolate fans.

I have a little something I have been antsy to share with you for some time.

I’d like to introduce you to Ticket Chocolate’s first-ever eating chocolate.

We call them our Beloved Bars.

Each chocolate bar is a tribute to a Beloved food. A dish that has meant something big in my life. You know how certain dishes are just that way?

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The Waffle Pecan Bar

The Hazelnut Cherry Stuffing Bar

The Grasshopper Pie Bar

The Roasted Chestnut Bar

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We spent the better part of the summer working these out (me and our amazing kitchen staff, who are honest-to-goodness artisans. And also patient, patient people.)

I even dusted off my old high school art supplies to create our matchbook covers.

(don’t judge. it’s been a few years : )

Each bar is hand built to be something pretty wonderful.

Or at least I think so.

I hope you do too.

p.s. I am fully fascinated by food stories. Do you have a beloved food? I would love to hear about it, and hear the story behind it. Stop by our flavors page some time and scroll to the bottom to share.

Last year, we introduced our Tres Tazas line of single-origin hot chocolate.

The Venezuelan hot chocolate we added to our shop was something kind of spectacular. It is 66% cacao bittersweet chocolate made from the authentic criollo bean (only 1% of the chocolate the world over comes from criollo cacao). And besides loving this chocolate, we consider it to be kind of legendary. The chocolate is harvested at the foothills of the Andes mountains, near lake Maracaibo, possibly the cradle of cacao for the entire world. (That spot in the world is also kind of near and dear to me.)

This year, we’re unveiling another chocolate that we are pretty sure is going to blow your minds.

Say hello to our Tres Tazas Bolivia.

This chocolate takes quite the unreal journey before it makes it into your cup.

The cacao for this chocolate comes from uncultivated cacao trees. Wild, uncultivated cacao. Something practically unheard of in the chocolate world.

If you are a fan of bittersweet, or ever have been, or ever consider possibly becoming one, you have to experience this chocolate.

The cacao grows wild along the lowlands of Bolivia. It has been growing wild for centuries and has begun only recently to be available outside the country.

The cacao is harvested by native Bolivians who live in the Amazonian lowlands, and who harvest it from cacao trees that are uncut and unfertilized along the river. They then deliver it, via hollowed-out canoe and horseback, to collection stations, where it is sun dried.

This chocolate has to be tasted to be believed. At 68% cacao it has an absolute absence of bitterness. As you sip your all-over-your-mouth-hot chocolate, you will pick up flavor notes of citrus, plum and vanilla.

We cannot wait for you to get a cupful of this cacao, fellow chocolate fans.

(credit: Beni, Bolivia rainforest pic via here.)

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 Vanilla Mint are available as singles, doubles, and 5-packs. Order today for you or your favorite mint-chocolate fan.

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]

We just finished shooting a couple new fun, lovey dovey pics for the shop. What do you think? Incase you’d like to try the striped cookie recipe, you can find it here. They were a hit, we dipped them in hot chocolate, biscotti style, and gobbled them down.


Our new Valentine Pack, available in the shop.

[photo credits: Amberlee Fawson]

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.