The continued hot weather has been incredibly challenging for our chocolate business. It makes the creation and storage of chocolate in our small studio difficult, but also impossible to mail out chocolates to our customers and ensure their safe arrival.
The picture on the right, above, is a box of chocolates that one of our customers received. They'd gone out on a Tracked 24 service to ensure that they were in the postal system for as short a time as possible and they arrived they morning after they were posted as planned. But when our customer opened they box she found that they had completely liquified during their journey and had the appearance that they's been oven baked!
When she shared the picture with me, I was horrified. Not only because my customer had been let down, but because of the ruin of a product that I put so much time and passion in to create in the first place.
PAUSING OF SALES AND PRODUCTION
Due to the ongoing hot weather, we have decided to pause sales and production with immediate effect as we do not want more disappointed customers. You'll see this on the website where all of our shop items are now listed as 'OUT OF STOCK'. We have also cancelled all of our summer markets and changed our lineup for the winter. So if you had expected us to be at certain markets to get your chocolate fix this summer, we're sorry to let you down but we'll be back again soon.
WHEN WILL WE BE BACK WITH CHOCOLATE?
If you want to check out our new lineup of market dates, please visit our EVENTS page here which lists events month by month.
We expect to be back in production in September and so online sales will be back by the beginning of October at the very latest. Hopefully things will have cooled down by then and we'll all need the comforts of chocolate.
See you all then!