OUR STORY

Why Chouquette?

Chouquette - pronounced "Shoe-ket". Locally made, high quality, small batch chocolates and caramels. Offering gourmet chocolates as wedding and party favors, business gifts, special occasions, and everyday presents.

We use the best ingredients - Fair Trade Guittard Chocolate, Fresh Cream, Cane Sugar (non-GMO), real Madagascar Vanilla Beans, Sea Salt from the south of France.

We use the best methods - slow small batches of caramel, cooked over a real flame, hand sprinkled sea salt, perfectly piped caramel

We employ the best people - working with Cornerstone Montgomery and Sunflower Bakery - we seek the neuro-diverse to staff our kitchen, it's not charity, it's smart business

HOW IT ALL BEGAN

In the beginning

As a child, Chouquette's founder, Sarah, risks punishment and squishes assorted bonbons to find her favorites: chocolate covered caramels

1990-2008

Sarah works in banking and retail, dreaming of chocolate.

2009

Sarah moves to Paris for Le Cordon Bleu Pastry School.

2010

Sarah opens Chouquette, inspired by European techniques and modern designs

Now

Chouquette handcrafts chocolate covered caramels with flavors visibly marked, no squishing required

Ingredients

Small Batch Caramel

1 Year certified shelf life

• Fresh Cream, Pure Cane Sugar, Lemon Juice, Salt

• Infusions (Vanilla Beans, Balsamic Vinegar, Coffee Beans, Old Bay®, Raspberries)

• Inclusions (Fleur de Sel, Hazelnuts)

Chouquette caramels do not contain corn syrup.

Chocolate

Fair Trade Certified by Fair-TradeUSA.org and Non-GMO

• 72% E Guittard Dark Chocolate—Coucher de Soleil - Cacao Beans, Pure Cane Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Sunflower Lecithin, Vanilla Beans

• 38% E Guittard Milk Chocolates—Soleil D’Or - Cacao Beans, Pure Cane Sugar, Full Cream Milk, Cocoa Butter, Sunflower Lecithin, Vanilla Beans

Decoration

Natural Cocoa Butter with colors derived from natural sources by Chef Rubber. Ultra Refined Cocoa Butter- Organic, Non-Deoderized, Kosher, & one or more of the following: Annatto, Astaxanthin, Aronia Berries, Beet, Canthaxanthin, Carrot oil, Corn endosperm oil, Bilberries, Black Carrot, Black Current, Curcumin, Caramel, Carotene, Dried algae meal, Elderberries, Enocianina, Ferrous gluconate, Ferrous lactate, Fruits, Grape juice extract, Haematococcus algae meal, lycopene extract, Paprika, Paprika oleoresin, Phaffa yeast, Pumpkin, Red Cabbage, Riboflavin, Sodium copper chlorophyllin,Spinach, Saffron, Synthetic iron oxide, Tagetes extract, Titanium Dioxide, Tomato, Toasted partially defatted cooked cottonseed flour, Turmeric, Turmeric oleoresin, Vegetables, as pursuant of the 21 CFR’s, parts 1 through 1499 including subchapters.