Flying Noir - An Artist's Chcolate

Flying Noir

http://www.flyingnoir.net/

 We discovered these chocolates at the 2015 Spring Chocolate Salon in San Francisco.  

They are unique, beautiful , thoughtful and decadent and  delicious.  We had a few minutes to chat with Karen Urbanek about her craft.  She is an artist that was inspired to make the move into the medium of chocolate.  

Flying Noir is micro batch artisan chocolates made with extraordinary care and fine, fresh ingredients, organic and locally sourced whenever possible,    focusing on single origin organic chocolate from the Americas, featuring original paintings in natural colored cocoa butter and mica,sustainably packaged in original artwork

Karen has successfully married art and chocolate.

This Weekend - The LA Chocolate Salon!

We will be attending the Los Angeles Chocolate Salon this weekend in Pasadena - look for our upcoming posts highlighting our favorite parts of the salon. 

The Chocolate Salon on Facebook

La Rue du Chocolat

A landmark in beautiful Laguna Beach, the seashells are here for the summer !!!
The Rajah is an ultra delicious chai tea.....made in LB, a GIANT chocolate peanut butter cup ( you may never eat another Reese's)

  

Bay Area Rose Caramel

If you get to the bay area and want to taste a try a truly extraordinary rose caramel, stop at the Ferry Building !!! PHENOMENAL!!
Type: Rose Caramel
Tatse: Delicate rose geranium oil swirled into light, buttery caramel. Cast in a white chocolate couverture and capped with bittersweet chocolate.
Maker: Rechhiuti Confections
About: http://www.recchiuti.com

Rose Caramel Chocolate

This is a lovely rose caramel chocolate from the mid-west, Fort Wayne Indiana.
Rose Carmella
Taste: Soft, nearly liquid caramel center with a hint of rose water, smooth and silky in a milk chocolate shell
Maker: DeBrand
Founded in 1987, Cathy Brand-Beere began working with chocolate at the age of eight. Throughout high school Cathy made and sold custom designed wedding cakes as a summer job, but it was her passion for confectionery arts that led her to open the first DeBrand chocolate shop in October 1987.

Today, DeBrand employs nearly 100 people with three shops in Fort Wayne
http://www.debrand.com

Rose Chocolate

Rose Chocolate – If you like rose flavored chocolates the rose chocolate produced by Minamoto is not to be missed !!  Because  of the intense heat in Japan, you can only find them in the Fall BUT they are exported outside the country the rest of the year.

It isha  a subtle rose flavor, covered in a rich chocolate coating.

Maker: Minamoto Kitchoan

Named after Minamoto no Yoritomo, who initiated the Samurai Government of Kamakura in 1192. Minamoto founded in Japan in 1947 opened their first flagship store in New York, now with several locations world wide.

http://www.kitchoan.com/

Not "small batch", but a lifetime favorite

 

 Violet Crumble:

The bar is a crumbly honeycomb toffee center coated in compound chocolate. Created by Abel Hoadley (born 10 September 1844, died 12 May 1918) who opened a jam factory in South Melbourne, Victoria, in 1889, trading as A. Hoadley & Company.

Today Violet Crumble is an Australian chocolate bar manufactured in Campbellfield near Melbourne, Australia, by Nestlé.