Happy Cinco de Mayo! The Art of Chocolate will be on TableTalk with Teresa Farney today at 12pm. Check out a great hour of food talk cpvering Cinco de Mayo & Mother’s day happenigns. Our friends from from Serranos Coffee will be there as well!
Chris & Darcie Farrow
The Art of Chocolate
The Art of Chocolate is proud to announce that we are producing hand made artisan chocolate bunnies in dark, milk and white chocolate varieties. At The Art of Chocolate, we use REAL couverture chocolate that is fair trade certified. We make all of your chocolate bunnies and filled eggs fresh this week (they don’t sit in a warehouse for months before sitting on the grocer shelf for even longer). If your bunny came home in a box from the grocery store, the chances are it has artificial ingredients and may not even be made of real chocolate!
Additionally, we are making giant chocolate truffle eggs filled either with peanut butter ganache or milk chocolate ganache!
Stop by or call us for your Easter chocolate orders!
Remember, Life is too short to eat crappy chocolate.
Chris & Darcie Farrow/The Art of Chocolate
The Art of Chocolate hand crafts each order and this adds a bit of extra preparation time. Because of this, there isn’t enough time remainng to prepare indvidual orders and get them out to you before Valentine’s Day. So this year, we tried to plan ahead a bit…
If you are local to Colorado Springs, please visit our retail store:
Pikes Peak Dessert Lounge
481 Highway 105 #208
Monument, CO 80132
719-313-9484
Or in Boulder, CO
Piece, Love & Chocolate
805 Pearl Street
Boulder CO
The web store will be back online after Feb 14th
Sincerely,
Chris & Darcie Farrow
The first of our wine & chocolate tasting events for 2012! The Art of Chocolate and Classic Wines along with The Inn at Palmer Divide will hosting An Evening of Wine & Chocolate on January 25th. Reservations are required and seats are limited, so call The Inn @ 719-481-1800 for your seats!
We are just wrapping up the details on new chocolate classes we will be teaching starting in January. Keep a watch here or on our Facebook page for details.
We are also making some changes for the website in both organization plus on our shopping cart. Thanks for your patience….we hope to be done by end of this weekend!
Chris & Darcie Farrow The Art of Chocolate
Our apologies to everyone but the blog and some parts of the website havent been maintained well this summer. Everything has been topsy turvy this summer with a death in the family combined with our purchasing a dessert business and moving The Art of Chocolate into that new retail location. If you have followed our Facebook page, you know that is where we have posted most of updates.
However, we are now revamping this website, back to posting our chocolate reviews (even in bad times, we don’t give up on chocolate) and we will be launching a new shopping cart! When all is said and done, we should be much more efficient with all of our online media.
Thanks for keeping in touch with us and don’t be a stranger! There are great things to come.
And remember, life is too short to eat crappy chocolate.
Chris & Darcie Farrow
The Art of Chocolate
Thanks to all our fans and hungry customers! You helped The Art of Chocolate raise almost $2000 in the fight 
against breast cancer! Even though the walk is this weekend, you can still help give:
http://info.avonfoundation.org/goto/farrow
This is a cause that means a lot to our family, as my mom is fighting her 2nd round of triple negative breast cancer in the last few years. This is the reason I am walking the 39 miles this weekend.
So catch The Art of Chocolate team up in Keystone and Breckenridge this weekend! I am walking, Darcie is on the volunteer staff and the big kids are entertaining the twins.
Again, thanks for all your support!
Chris Farrow & The Art of Chocolate team
The Art of Chocolate is happy to announce the availability of vegan versions of our dark chocolate truffles. You may now order Twisted Citrus, Penfold’s Port or Black Betty in a vegan version, at no extra charge! Just look for the option drop down box and let us know if you want us to substitute coconut milk for the dairy.
And remember, life is too short to eat crappy chocolate.
Chris
The Art of Chocolate
Holy moley Batman! It has been a while since I tried a new chocolate that just totally blew me away…and that is exactly what happened with The Green Chile and Pistachio Bark from The ChocolateSmith .
We travel every year down to New Mexico and I always try to find some new chocolate to try while down there. This time around, I was lucky enough to stumble upon The ChocolateSmith and their Green Chile and Pistachio bark. I LOVE green chile and Darcie is nuts over Pistachios (doh), so we decided to give this a shot.
I hoped for the best and I wasn’t let down. Luscious dark chocolate, salty Pistachios and some real heat from the green chile. The ingredients are straightforward with nice clean chocolate, Pistachios and a surprise with a bit of garlic salt. This combination really works and the poor bark didn’t stand a chance. We devoured the whole package.
Only two things I could complain about: packaging and price. The packaging was rather cheap and I am really picky when items are bagged but can’t be resealed, especially when you might want to serve more for later. A resealable bag of a little better quality would make a big difference. Second, the price for 4oz is something around $8.00 which really drags the value down. These are small points and doesn’t diminish the overall eating experience.
Overall, this chocolate rocks and I guarantee we will be stopping again for more on our next trip to New Mexico.
Here is the grade: 90 - A euphoric chocolate experience that makes life worth living
Overall Taste: 48 out of 50 possible points
Quality of Ingredients: 18 out of 20 possible points
Mouthfeel: 15 out of 15 possible points
Aroma: 4 out of 5 possible points
Value: 3 out of 5 possible points
Presentation: 2 out of 5 possible points
And remember, life is too short to eat crappy chocolate.
Chris
The Art of Chocolate
The Art of Chocolate is going to up the offer to get your help in supporting the fight against breast cancer.
The Art of Chocolate will be participating in this years Rocky Mountain Walk in late June 2011, but we need your help in raising at least $1800!
So here are two ways you can help:
1. Make a donation, and we will send you chocolate. $25 donation gets you not only a tax-deductible donation but also a 6 piece box of artisan chocolate truffles or gourmet caramels. $50 gets a box of a dozen. No strings attached. No limits to quantities!
Please visit: http://info.avonfoundation.org/goto/farrow
2. Buy any pink ribbon box of our chocolates or caramels from Taste of Life natural markets through May 15th, and we will donate all of our proceeds to the Avon Foundation. You get to eat chocolate and help out a great cause at the same time!
and remember, life is too short to eat crappy chocolate and breast cancer really sucks! Chris Farrow The Art of Chocolate