Chocolate Ingredients

Maine is a rich source of wonderful local flavors that go so well with our chocolate. There’s an abundance to choose from, and we make careful choices so that we can bring the best the state has to offer to our customers both here in Maine and all over the country. You can see a…
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Dean's Sweets Nonpareils in Milk, Dark, and White Chocolate

Can You Say That? We have a popular and fun chocolate item in our stores and on our website that no one, including myself, really knows how to pronounce. It is the nonpareil. I’ll add the pronunciation here, mostly for my own benefit, taken from Merriam-Webster, so we can all be on the same page: ˌnän-pə-ˈrel. Or in…
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Maine Sea Salt Dark Chocolate Squares

Standing behind the counter helping customers at our chocolate store gives me a laboratory to watch human behavior. Any retailer will tell you the same. The public parades before us. I see couples newly in love. I see parents exhausted from a family vacation. I can tell if a customer is a chocolate connoisseur or…
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Chocolate Advent Calendar House

A Little History, Not So Much Chocolate Advent wasn’t always associated with little bites of chocolate hidden behind paper windows or inside cute fabric pockets. Advent itself has been observed since the 4th century, celebrating the weeks leading up to the anniversary of the birth of Christ. Historically, Christians marked their doors with chalk, wiping away…
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Chocolate snowman holiday gift

We know, you don’t want to hear or see anything about the holidays in summer. Even seeing decorations in the big box stores in October is too early. We completely get that, and we couldn’t agree more. But there are some reasons to start thinking about ordering holiday chocolates soon that are both helpful to…
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Maine Mix Chocolate Assortment

Maine has great summers, and Maine has great chocolate (see why here.). But if you add chocolate and summer together, with temperatures reaching the 80s and 90s even in Maine, you may, if you’re not careful, end up with a less-than-ideal mess of melted sweetness.  Temperatures Across the US For eight or more months of…
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