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Making the Find Chocolate! Video

It was a cold and blustery afternoon in early October when we set out as a family into the busy core of Vancouver, on a mission:  to create a short video to illustrate the ease of using the Find Chocolate! app.

Our intrepid teenagers good-naturedly came along to haul camera gear, and we set up at a busy intersection near Mink Chocolates.  This was for two very good reasons –  we needed a busy intersection in order to shoot a time-lapse sequence,  and of paramount importance, Mink makes a fantastic drinking chocolate spiced with chili, which we all knew we would need by the time we wrapped. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Chocolatiers Tagged With: Find Chocolat!, iphone, Mink Chocolates

Marzipan Pig

 

I always wanted a pig.  I have fond memories of pressing my small (and not terribly clean) nose against the glass cases at Notte’s Bon Ton Pastry and Confectionary, a wonderful old-fashioned cake shop, which used to be on Granville Street in Vancouver, before it moved to the Kitsilano neighbourhood where it now resides.

The Bon Ton, as it is known is Vancouver, had the most wonderful, colourful menagerie of marzipan animals including a seal balancing a ball on the end of its nose, a grey elephant, and my favourite:  a bright pink pig with chocolate nostrils.

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Filed Under: Chocolatiers, Flavours and Textures, Other Foods, Technique Tagged With: marzipan, Mink Chocolates

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