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Birmingham Chocolate Makes Delicious Organic Desserts From All Natural Ingredients

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Chocolate is one of life’s most joyful commodities. I mean, who doesn’t enjoy indulging in a delicious truffle, brownie, candy bar, or even a chocolate chip cookie? There are so many different varieties of chocolate and ways to prepare it that it’s one of those treats that truly never gets tiresome!

Birmingham Chocolate started out of the innovative mind of Doug Cale, Head Chocolatier at the company when he was just a boy. His mother allowed him to help her in the kitchen on rain days when he couldn’t play outside, making all sorts of delicious artisan chocolate treats, like cake and cookies (they were a big dessert family, as Cale likes to put it).

Although the seed of intrigue was planted in Cale at a young age, he ended up going to college and graduating with a degree in Astronautics (probably the farthest thing from Head Chocolatier that you could think of).

Truffles

After years in the business world as a consultant, Cale finally decided to get his chocolate business off the ground, and set up Birmingham Chocolate in the upscale neighborhood of Birmingham, Michigan (a suburb of Detroit).

Today, Cale and the folks at Birmingham Chocolate make some of the best artisan chocolate desserts around and do so without the inclusion of yucky, funny-tasting artificial ingredients.

You could say that Birmingham Chocolate specializes, and is most well-known, for their colorfully designed and delicious truffle creations. These are handcrafted creations made with milk, and dark or white couverture chocolate. There are also varieties infused with natural flavors like spices, liqueurs, herbs, and concentrates.

Just look at some of the flavors available:

  • Blood Orange Dark
  • Jamaican Rum Dark
  • Mocha Milk
  • Acai Blueberry Dark
  • Kahlua Dark
  • Guinness Dark
  • Butterscotch White
  • Watermelon White
  • Chipotle Dark

These are flavors that are guaranteed to make your customers’ mouths water, and their sweet tooths crave these delicious truffle creations!

They also have a delicious selection of creme chocolate treats available, like Bourbon Vanilla Creme, Maple Creme, and Coconut Creme.

Do you have customers that like bark? (chocolate bark, not tree bark, of course). Then they’ll love flavors like Almond, Oreo Cookie, Peanut Butter, Peppermint, Pistachio Cherry, Salted Cashew Caramel, Samoa, and Bumpy Road!

Boxed Assortment

Birmingham Chocolate also has some great Fruit and Nut cluster chocolate treats, caramels, and toffees. These people know their desserts!

One of the biggest attractions to Birmingham Chocolate (besides their delicious desserts) is their commitment to using only the best ingredients. Their treats are natural, vegan, kosher, gluten-free, and non-GMO, making them perfect for people who love natural flavors or have certain dietary restrictions. They don’t want anyone to miss out on their awesome chocolates!

They also use a “slightly edgy” 72 percent cocoa extra bittersweet chocolate, with no added cocoa butter, for their chocolate creations.

They also have a line of bars that are organic and certified fair trade, made from either 66 percent or 74 percent cocoa chocolate. This cocoa is USDA Organic certified by the OEFFA and Fair Trade Certified by Fair Trade USA.

The next time you look for a great product to place in your store, just take a look at Birmingham Chocolate’s selection, for the most delicious, natural artisan chocolate treats in the business! They’re perfect for boutiques, holidays, and every joyous occasion!

Delicious, Unique Chocolate Confections From CB Stuffers

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The marriage of chocolate and peanut butter is one of the most delicious unions in the history of gourmet foods (next to french fries and milkshakes, of course).

Two Marriages

Chocolate Pizza
CB Stuffers is the marriage of two delicious delicacies, brought about by the marriage of two longtime foodies and business owners, Carlo Bacci and Erin Calvo. After owning separate businesses next door to each other — Bacci with his hand-tossed pizza restaurant, and Calvo with her New Age shop — the two got engaged, married, and subsequently decided to open their own business together.

Chocolate Pizza

Their first products were gourmet chocolate treats shaped like pizza slices, with Calvo providing all of the chocolate from a homemade recipe. What first started as a hobby, soon turned into a business, and the two opened up their own gourmet chocolate company, CB Stuffer.

Their dessert pizzas are their first and most popular products. They are solid discs of milk chocolate, topped with extra treats, including M&M Pretzel Pieces, Cookies ‘n Cream, and Holiday Peppermint!

Customers can also purchase individually wrapped pizza slices, if a whole pizza is too much to handle. These are available in two varieties, the normal 11 oz. size and the mini 2.5 oz. size.

More Tasty Treats

Peanut Butter Cups
If you think chocolate pizza slices are unique, you and your customers will be blown away by their milk chocolate chicken wings. That’s right, chicken wings. But don’t worry, they’re not actually chocolate covered pieces of meat (although, bacon and chocolate has proven to be a delicious combo). CB Stuffers’ Wings are milk chocolate treats shaped in the form of a chicken wing, but filled with delicious peanut butter. They’ll definitely be a talking point at any party they’re brought to!

But CB Stuffers also makes more traditional treats, including their chocolate peanut butter cups. These peanut butter cups are 5.5 oz. each, and are stuffed with smooth, and creamy peanut butter. They have a wide variety of flavors to choose from, including dark truffle, traditional dark chocolate, caramel, PB&J, and Marshmallow peanut butter, which was once featured as celebrity chef Rachael Ray’s Snack of the Day!

You can’t go wrong with peanut butter and chocolate, so check out CB Stuffers, a company with products your customers will love to indulge in!

Birmingham Chocolate: Where Chocolate is Everything

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Stop settling for ordinary chocolate. Ditch the boring sweets and create a buzz with something new! Birmingham Chocolate provides your customers with the opportunity to do just that. These chocolatiers create decadent treats that can even be customized. If you can dream it, they can create it.

Perfect for Every Occasion

Birmingham follows the highest standard of quality while making their hand-crafted chocolates. They provide sweet confectioneries for all occasions: weddings, parties with friends, and everything in between! Any palate can find an indulgence for their liking. Their award-winning ganache truffles offer 17 flavors alone! From cheesecake to Jamaican rum, there is a flavor for everyone.

Birmingham also offers your customers sugar-free, gluten-free, kosher certified, and vegan chocolates all with no preservatives added. Along with all their endeavors, they can create cake pops and cookies to pair with your treats.

Complete Customization

Stand out from the crowd with a custom order. Whether it’s an assorted box of truffles & nut clusters or a custom logo on a candy bar, every chocolate dream can come true! Birmingham creates every order only when it’s submitted, so your customers won’t receive anything pre-made.

Also, this company is actively involved in non-profit and community service organizations. They believe strongly in supporting their community and customers by providing top-notch chocolate in fundraisers.

Birmingham Chocolate chocolatiers are masters of high quality chocolate and tailored service for all your chocolate needs.

FGmarket’s Weekly Pick: Birmingham Chocolate

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Birmingham Chocolate makes fine, hand-crafted chocolates while following the highest standards of quality.

Their chocolatiers enjoy personalizing chocolates, whether for your customer’s family, friends or even your business. Their selections include signature ganache truffles, creams, fruit and nut clusters, caramels, barks and chocolate bars. Options include vegan, all natural ingredients, sugar-free, gluten free and kosher, and they do not add preservatives. Check out the website for almost unlimited options from Birmingham Chocolate!

FGmarket’s Weekly Pick – Birmingham Chocolate

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Sometimes your customers need something they can really sink their teeth into. Birmingham Chocolate has not only boxed gourmet chocolates, but novelty chocolate items that will stop your customers in their tracks!

   

From wedding favors to gifts of thanks, every occasion deserves a chocolatey delight. Whether it’s a gift or because it was too hard to resist, consider Birmingham Chocolate to fill your shop’s shelves.

 

FGmarket’s Weekly Pick – Pascha Chocolate Company

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Customers don’t just like delicious confectionery that leans towards the gourmet side–they also want treats that are organic and healthy. Pascha Chocolate Co., for example, strive to please customers with tasty, yet all natural, chocolate delights.

             

USDA organic certified and vegan certified, these treats are guaranteed to be all natural, with the purest of ingredients, and different from any other chocolate bar out there. This dark chocolate comes in exotic flavors like lucuma and range with different amounts of cacao. Check out Pascha Cocolate Co. and introduce your customers to organic chocolate they can’t refuse.

Birmingham Chocolate: The Perfect Holiday Gift

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The holidays are here, and that means your customers are going to be looking for that most delicious of items, chocolate! There are options galore in the chocolate industry, but true chocolate lovers only want the very best. Those customers are looking for chocolate made by a company who loves it as much as they do, and that means they are looking for Birmingham Chocolate!

Wondrous Variety

This chocolate maker offers all the items your customers want, and some they probably didn’t even know were available! With a wide variety of truffles in a cascade of flavors, there is no doubt you can find many things which will tickle your customer’s fancy. They offer creams, caramels, clusters and more in flavors ranging from cherry to egg nog!

You can purchase boxed chocolates, trays, gift baskets and even hand made chocolate bars!

Since the chocolate is made on site, they can also offer personalized chocolate bars! There are already several options available such as “Thank You”, “Happy Birthday” and “Congratulations”, but they also offer a design service (with an additional fee) for those customers who have their own messages to send! Do you know of a businesses that wants to give out chocolate with their logo on the bar? Done!

Chocolate Made Right

Each piece of chocolate is hand made, fresh on site. No preservatives of any kind are added, and natural ingredients are used wherever possible! When you buy from Birmingham Chocolate, you know you are only buying the best. They have been producing chocolate in Detroit, MI for over 5 years and have the experience and staff to meet your needs!

Chocolate House
Your customers want chocolate from a company that takes every care in its product, and that’s exactly how Birmingham Chocolate approaches every piece of chocolate they make.

This isn’t just chocolate. This is chocolate your customers will feel good about buying and you can feel good about selling.

Laketown Chocolates – Gourmet Chocolate with Every Bite

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Wanting to find delicious gourmet chocolate for your store? It must be melt-in-your-mouth, amazingly good to please your customers. Sure, they’ve tasted chocolate before, therefore, you must offer them something they’ve never tried. Laketown Chocolates does exactly that with their wide selection, quality ingredients, and amazing flavor combinations.

Laketown Chocolates has blended and molded gourmet chocolates for over 30 years. They proudly offer quality, delicious artisan chocolates made in the midwest developed from a 150 year old European recipe. You’ll find a large selection of homemade specialty chocolates, molded chocolates, and over 1500 stock chocolate shapes that are available.

Each chocolate is hand poured, dipped, wrapped, and packaged in their in-house chocolate kitchen to ensure fresh superior taste and quality. They want every order to exceed your expectations. Find amazing chocolates with Laketown Chocolates. They offer a wide selection to ensure everyone’s taste buds are pleasantly surprised. Find chocolates, such a:

  • Chunky Gourmet Bars – Milk Chocolate Wasabi, Milk Chocolate S’mores, Milk Chocolate Toffee, Milk Chocolate Cajun
  • Homemade Specialties – Chocolate Covered Oreos, Peanut Butter Cups, Milk Chocolate Dipped Potato Chips, Sea Salt Caramels, Chocolate Dipped Graham Crackers
  • Colorific Chocolate Bites
  • Chocolate Theme Kits – Chocolate Beach Box, Chocolate Sweet Travels Kit, Chocolate Cosmetic Kit, Chocolate Fruit of the Vine Kit
  • Wedding & Anniversary Chocolate
  • Chocolate Business Cards
  • Coffee Tray Gift Set
    Personalized Chocolate.

They also create more than just chocolate. You’ll find great gift sets, baskets, snack mixes, coffee, cocoa, and hard candy. These make wonderful gift items. A gorgeous basket filled with these chocolates are great for birthdays, Valentine’s Day, and special occasions. Your customers can also use their delicious chocolate for party and wedding favors. There are many uses for this delicious, gourmet chocolate. Everyone will love the taste and want to use chocolate for every occasion!

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Stock Your Store with Sweet Treats from Van Otis Chocolates

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One of the best ways to reach out to your customers is through their taste-buds, of course! Gourmet chocolate is an absolute must in any store. It’s truly appealing and delights your customer’s taste-buds. However, how do you even begin to find the right supplier of chocolate for your store? Well, one place that is definitely worth looking at is Van Otis Chocolates.

Milk Swiss Fudge
Why choose this company? First off, their gourmet chocolates are truly melt in your mouth good. Also, these chocolates date back to 1935 where the same recipes and quality hand craftsmanship of the chocolate remain the same. They’ve also won numerous awards like being voted New Hampshire’s Best Chocolate or The Caregivers’ Chocolate Lover’s Fantasy “Most Creative Use of Chocolate”. Their chocolate will definitely wow your customers.

What type of chocolates do they offer? You’ll find Swiss fudge, assorted chocolates, nuts & popcorn, truffles, traditional cream fudge, candies, sugar-free confections and even pet treats. All of their items are amazingly good.

If your customers love chocolates, they can try their coconut almond delights, peanut butter crisped rice, cherry cordials, soft center chocolates, chocolate covered pretzels or chocolate covered jellies. When your customers take their first bite, they’ll instantly fall in love. This chocolate will be a must when they are in search for a decadent treat.

Gourmet Chocolate Gift Basket
However, they offer more than just gourmet chocolate. They also offer chocolate & wine pairings, crystalized ginger, fruit slices, gummie bears, marzipan, licorice, blackberries & raspberries and even pet treats. The whole family will find a favorite treat that they’ll love indulging in every night. Also, don’t forget that these chocolates always make wonderful gift ideas.

Fill up a beautiful basket with some of these decadent treats and pair them with their favorite drink and wrap it up with a big red bow. Your customers will have an exquisite gift for any occasion.

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Sweeten Up Your Gifts With Sweet Distinction

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One way to get to your customer’s heart is through scrumptious, delicious food. Even if this isn’t your main product line, gourmet food and sweets are an essential part of any store. So, what wholesale supplier do you choose for your store? You definitely want one that focuses on quality and simply just tastes delicious and Sweet Distinction provides both of those.

Chocolate Enclosure Card
The thing about Sweet Distinction is they offer something truly unique that’s great for florists, weddings and special occasions. This company is a fun and imaginative confectionery company that is home to their Sweet Distinction Chocolate Card, which is a creative way for people to express themselves – through the medium of chocolate.

Their company is based on three core principles, which are quality, consistency and integrity. You’ll find that they continually strive for these three principles through each and every one of their products.

This gourmet chocolate is wonderful for florists and gift shops. How are they great products for florists? They have come up with a way for your customers to enjoy the gift of flowers, as well as the gift of chocolates at the same time. Their Sweet Distinction Chocolate Card is a piece of foil wrapped milk chocolate that serves as a frame for an enclosure card. It’s tailored to work with products you already have in your store.

The versatility of the card enables it to fit on any card pick or cellophane wrapped arrangement. Basically, you have these delicious chocolate bars and stick an enclosure card that you have in your store on the back of it for a unique finishing touch to any beautiful floral arrangement. These just add something a little special to any special occasion.

These are also great for weddings or special events. Why? This scrumptious chocolate makes for a wonderful party and wedding favor. It’s a premium chocolate treat and a special personalized message from the bride and groom.

Chocolate Event Cards
You can even have a picture of the bride and groom on it. However, if your customers are hosting a special event, they can have these chocolate bars personalized for their event or even serve as a business card for a corporate event. How great would that be for your customers or even your store? Stick a business card on the back of one of these chocolate bars, your store will definitely be remembered.

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