Chocolate Made in Colorado: Craft Movement Slides To Cocoa

Chance to Win A Box of Chocolates from Veree Chocolate. 

 

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Move over craft beer! Craft chocolate is taking Colorado by storm. Chocolatiers across the state are stirring up inventive chocolate flavors and designs sure to satiate any chocolate craving. Made with gourmet ingredients and lots of creativity, these chocolate confections add a touch of sweetness to the Colorado culinary landscape. Check out some of our favorite local chocolate havens:

Chocolate Crisis Center (Denver, CO)

Located in Denver’s RiNo Art District, Chocolate Crisis Center offers chocoholics “Daily Doses” of premium Belgian chocolate products. Packaged as pill bottles, medicine kits and cases, chocolate covered gourmet caramels, truffles, nuts and fruits come in a wide variety of staple and seasonal flavors including Chocolate Sea Salt Carmelita. In addition, Chocolate Crisis Center offers customers a true experience at their First Friday events. An interactive project, Be Part of the Art encourages customers to stage hilarious photos with Dr. Ernst Angst in a mock “therapy” session.

Learn where founder Lisa Heppner & JC Bourque first encountered a “chocolate crisis” and how the idea for the center was born in our Q/A session:

Ritual Chocolate (Denver, CO)

The first bean-to-bar chocolate products in Colorado, Ritual Chocolate is hand crafted, start to finish, by owners/founders Anna and Robbie in their Denver production facility. The genetics, terroir and post-harvesting practices of the carefully selected raw cocoa beans used in Ritual Chocolate set the foundation for its unique flavors. Named for the regions from which the cocoa beans are sourced, each handcrafted (and hand-wrapped) bar is enhanced only by organic cane sugar and aged for several weeks to balance the flavor.

Read more about the similarities between winemaking and developing the perfect chocolate bar in our Q/A session with owner/founder Robbie:

Veree Chocolate (Denver, CO)

Having trained professionally in kitchens around the world, executive chef and master chocolatier, Patricia Chapman, takes chocolate lovers on a culinary trip with her worldly inspired Veree Chocolates. Flavor combinations such as Raspberry-Lime and Champagne Framboise are among the interesting chocolate concoctions that can be found at gourmet food shops across Colorado. Delicately designed and infused with unique flavors, each Veree chocolate is truly a work of art.

Find out how a professional musician turned accountant came to be a Master Chocolatier, and the meaning behind “Veree” in our Q/A with owner/founder Patricia Chapman: