Chris & Darcie Farrow
The Art of 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

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

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!

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

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

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 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!