Valentine’s Day is right around the corner and if you are like most people you need help with deciding on a last minute gift. Chocolate is the most popular gifts to purchase for Valentine’s Day, but you shouldn’t purchase just any chocolate. I recently visited a couple of local Kansas City owned Chocolatiers, who will make you leave that grocery store box office at the store. My first stop is Christopher Elbow’s Artisanal Chocolate, I’ll show you how Christopher Elbow Chocolates is a Valentine’s Day Savior.
How are the chocolates made?
100% of the chocolates are completely handmade and shipped from our Kansas City location. It takes approximately three-four days to create the chocolates from scratch. If you have the pleasure of tasting a fruit or liquor flavored chocolate, you’ll be delighted to know they made from the actual ingredient and not from extract or artificial flavoring.
Where do you produce/manufacture the chocolates?
The manufacturing plant located on the backside of the retail store, its temperature controlled because the chocolate is so delicate. Christopher Elbow Chocolates are known for their perfectly tempered chocolate. What is perfectly tempered chocolate exactly? That means when they create the crystal in the chocolate when it’s melted a beautiful sheen is revealed. Most people may believe the chocolate has a lacquer or coating added and some do but not a Christopher Elbow Chocolates.
What can I purchase for Valentine’s Day? Do you’ll sell any specialty items?
Christopher Elbow’s Best-selling Valentine’s Day chocolates are the signature heart boxes. They come with beautifully decorated heart shaped chocolates and they are very limited edition.
Tell me more about your signature Chocolate Bonbons?
Each chocolate bon-bon are made with a cocoa base paint and hand painted. Every bow is hand tie, which creates a completely artisanal product from start from finish. If you are looking to score a good deal? Be sure to stop by our signature store on First Fridays in Kansas City, we sell all the chocolate bonbons for $1.00 from 5:00p.m. – 9:00p.m.
Do you’ll sell hot chocolate during the winter months?
The lobby of the store is kept cooled all year along to create the perfect liquid drinking chocolate environment for their signature hot chocolates to be enjoyed year around. As a matter of fact, their signature Cocoa Noir Hot Chocolate, is a dark chocolate blended with vanilla beans and recently won the best drinking chocolate in the country this year.
What is Christopher Elbow’s vision?
That every flavor is very refined and very simple. His vision is where modern artistry meets traditional hand craftsmanship, yielding edible works of art, almost too beautiful to eat.
Christopher Elbow Chocolates
1819 McGee Street
Kansas City, MO 64108
816.842.1300
Mon – Sat 10am – 6pm
