The vianne box, chocolate for keeps
Pin It vianne chocolat and artist, Katherine Downey Miller bring to vianne chocolat fans the vianne box. The vianne box is a wooden box with an inlaid encaustic art panel filled with a decadent selection of vianne chocolat handmade artisan chocolates. Each box is an original piece of art signed by the artist. After treating [...]
A Sampling of our Chocolates
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Pug Bars and a Cause
Pin It Our pug bars are made using a 66 percent fair-trade, organic chocolate and get their adorable shape from an antique mold reproduction. The best part about these cute little six pugs sitting in a line is that we’ve partnered with the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (MSPCA) and donate [...]
Two New Places to Find vianne chocolat
We’re happy to introduce you to two new places where you can satisfy your vianne chocolat chocolate craving, Whole Foods in Hingham, MA and SuSu Bakery in Wellesley, MA. The Whole Foods in Hingham is the first and only Whole Foods on the South Shore. It’s located within the Derby Street Shoppes, where you can [...]
Award: American Package Design Award
We’re tickled blue to have our pug bar wraps receive a 2011 American Package Design Award from Graphic Design USA. You can view our entry and the other winning entries in our category here. Hint, the winners are in alphabetical order so you’ll have to scroll all the way to the end to find us. [...]
Raising Money for the MSPCA
We’re happy to announce our 4th Quarter (2010) donation to the MSPCA is in. We far exceeded our first donation thanks to our many pug bar fans, including our wonderful retail partners, and we’re looking forward to giving even more to this worthwhile organization in the future. Remember, 25 cents of each pug bar you [...]
As seen in Edible Boston
Have you seen vianne chocolat in Edible Boston? Rebecca Hansen did a lovely piece that told the vianne chocolat story better than I ever could have. Read the article and learn about what makes vianne chocolat different, and better than the rest.
An Award Winning Photo
We’re so happy to tell you that vianne chocolat’s favorite photographer Virginia Bonesteel was recently recognized as submitting one of the top ten photos in the WGBH Food Photo Contest this past November with her photo of our burnt caramel cups. One look at the mouthwatering photo and you’ll realize there was no way she [...]
Our first donation to the MSPCA
This past August we created our Pug Bars and developed a relationship with the MSPCA. It’s an important organization that’s near and dear to our hearts (you can read the back story here) and so we decided to donate 25 cents of each pug bar sale to this wonderful organization. We’re making quarterly donations and [...]
New Flavor: Pumpkin Cups
Celebrate the taste of fall and winter with our limited edition pumpkins cups. The filling in these dark chocolate cups starts with a blend of pumpkin, caramel and milk chocolate to create a delicate, delicious pumpkin flavor. Completing the pumpkin experience is a dry roasted and salted pumpkin seed adorning the top of each cup. [...]
vianne chocolat in the news
We’re very excited to have our pug bars, and more importantly, the story behind them including our relationship with the MSPCA written up in The Boston Globe. You can read the article titled Pet project: chocolates for a good cause here and then buy your pug bars here. 25 cents of each purchase goes directly [...]
nibs -n- skulls
Just in time for Halloween we’re introducing our new flavor, nibs -n- skulls. This flavor starts with a rich milk chocolate ganache made with a 41 percent milk chocolate. To that we add a generous helping of cacao nibs – cacao in its most simple state – giving the ganache a nice crunch. The cacao [...]
2010 New England Dessert Showcase
vianne chocolat will be at the 2010 New England Dessert Showcase at Boston’s Westin Copley Place. Join us Saturday, September 18th to sample and purchase chocolates, including our signature burnt caramel cups and pug bars. We’re looking forward to meeting lots of you, so please make sure to look us up in the program and [...]
vianne chocolat is on Foodzie!
We strive to make our chocolates with only the best local ingredients available (when reasonable of course, cacao just doesn’t grow this far north of the equator) and we’re delighted that we’re up to Foodzie standards. Not familiar with Foodzie? Think Etsy of the food world. They bring together small artisan food producers in one [...]
Join us at the Massachusetts Marketplace Festival
We’re headed to Elm Bank on Saturday, August 7th to participate in the 14th annual Massachusetts Marketplace Festival. We’ll have strawberry balsamic chocolates, rose hip chocolates, lavender chocolates, our signature burnt caramel cups and more on hand. We’ll be selling boxes of chocolates and giving out free samples. We’ll be in the Hunnewell building, stop [...]
Crave Boston loves vianne chocolat
Have you seen Crave Boston’s The Urban Girl’s Manifesto yet? It’s a great little book that’s packed with the best of the best in women owned businesses in the Metro Boston area. There’s everything from clothes to jewelry to dog treats to personal shoppers to vacation planners to chocolate (vianne chocolat of course) to, well, [...]
Welcome to vianne chocolat
vianne chocolat makes handmade artisan chocolates with a touch of local flavor. Our chocolates are always made in small batches to ensure the ultimate freshness. They start with a blend of the some of the world’s best couvertures. To that we add fresh cream and butter from New England dairies and end with wonderful flavor [...]
vianne chocolat canvas bags are in!
We’re especially proud of our new vianne chocolat canvas bags featuring the artwork of Boston artist Seth Minkin. What’s better is these bags are sure to delight any fashionista as they feature Pantone’s 2010 “it” color, turquoise. Add a canvas bag to any order for a mere $7. And if we spot you on the [...]
A chocolate party with a twist
Last month vianne chocolat visited Upstate NY. Part of the trip was throwing an in-home chocolate party, but this one had a twist from our normal “learn how to make chocolates” theme. This party was entitled women, wine and chocolate, a name given by the hostess of this particular event. The party started with a [...]
The vianne chocolat on-line store is up!
Our on-line store is now up and running. It’s a simple store, but will allow you to purchase our chocolates in a variety of box sizes. We’ll be adding more items as time goes on, but for now we’re testing out the basics. If you’re used to ordering by phone or email, please continue doing [...]
For ingredients, local is where you are
This week I’m in Upstate New York, staying right across from the Erie Canal. I’m hosting a chocolate party and for weeks I was trying to decide what types of ganache to make for it. I didn’t bring many food supplies with me, just the chocolate. I didn’t have any special requests for the party [...]
vianne’s new home
Starting a new business is hard, starting a specialty food business is even harder. Navigating regulations, state departments, city departments – it’s enough to make your head spin. But getting through it and being on the other end is gratifying. And getting through it easily, with support, is even better. To that vianne chocolat has [...]
The day vianne was born
March 26, 2010 is a special day in vianne’s world. It’s the day she was born, at least born with the City of Boston. March 26th marks the day I went to City Hall and filed my business registration to begin operating under vianne chocolat. In the steps of establishing a new chocolate brand, this [...]
It all starts with a name, mine starts with vianne
It was the year 2000 when my chocolate story first began, albeit slowly. That’s the year I graduated from Cambridge School of Culinary Arts and the year I made my first batch of chocolates. They were dark chocolate shells filled with a gooey, rich, dark, burnt caramel. It was a pastry chef at a local [...]
