New Holiday Gift Box Now Available!

Two bars of Bond bean-to-bar chocolate - one dark, one milk, and 8 chocolate almond biscotti.  All in a gift ready box with room for your personal note on the label.  Perfect for holidays, birthdays, house warming, hostess/host gift, school teachers, mail persons, yoga teachers...you get the idea.  $20

Biscotti Season is Officially Back!

You may not have known this but real homemade biscotti has a season.

I hereby declare now through March biscotti season.  Why? Low humidity is the key.  One of the features of good biscotti is that there is a bit of a crunch to them. Not a tooth cracking crunch, just enough resistance when you bite into it to give you a satisfying crunch.  So if I made biscotti in, say, July, the humidity is so high that is pulls the crunch right out of it.  That is what we would call a supreme bummer at our house.  After all, without the crunch is it really biscotti?

What else makes this biscotti special?  A generous hand with the milk chocolate and oven-roasted almonds of course!

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We thank you for all the orders throughout the official biscotti season...starting now!

One 13oz. bag is $13.

Hi Folks, I am adding a new item: Artruck® Chocolate Chip Cookies

Why do we call them Artruck® Chocolate Chip Cookies?

Our friend and neighbor Julie Cowan, who is an incredibly talented artist, is also a visionary.  She had an idea to create a neighborhood art gallery featuring her art and the works of the many artists who live in and around Evanston.  Her idea was simple: Art, hang it up in a truck.  Sort of like a pop up gallery for a summer night. Julie and her husband rent two big U-Haul trucks, the ones with ramps going up into the truck.  Together, they would wire the trucks for light and hang between 20-30 pieces of art in each truck for viewing.

My contribution was to offer baked good to the folks who visited Artruck®.  We live right across the street from Julie so I just set up a table in our driveway and give away these cookies (and about 40 loaves of bread, one slice at a time!) throughout the event.  Before the night was over, all 300 cookies were gone. People would come by and ask: “Do you have any more of those chocolate chip cookies left?”  Artruck® has been going on for almost 10 years now, so at this point the cookies have developed a bit of a reputation.  People were asking for them.  They were memorable.  I was thrilled and honored they had garnered a reputation and we began calling them the Artruck® Chocolate Chip Cookies.

I hope you enjoy them as much as the visitors to Artruck® have over the years.

Note: They are baked fresh to order.  My goal is to have you pick them up no later than 12 hours after they are baked.  I store them in an airtight plastic zipper bag and then in a kraft paper bag for easier handling.  They freeze well so if you will not eat all of them within three days, you can put some in the freezer and remove as many as you will eat the next day and let them come to room temperature overnight.  Please text me when you would like to pick them up so I can bake them fresh for you.

$11 per dozen

Chocolate has terroir. Cocoa beans develop unique flavors based on where they are grown. The mineral content of the soil, the angle of the sun, the amount of water, all of these things and more contribute to the individual taste of a bar of chocolate made exclusively from beans of a single location.  

The fun and challenging part is bringing out the flavors inherent in whatever beans I am working with. Will there be fruity notes? Floral or earthy notes?  Will it have a long lasting finish? All of these things are in the bean. It is the chocolate maker’s job to bring the strongest qualities of each location’s beans into the bar.

All Bond Chocolate is:

• 70% dark

• Small batch

• Single origin

• Cocoa beans, cane sugar, and just a touch of cocoa butter

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One 2oz bar is $7.00.  Two or more bars at $6.00 each.

Introducing:
Milk Chocolate

50% Milk Chocolate Single Origin Bean to Bar

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Although I prefer dark chocolate, my lovely and talented wife really likes milk chocolate.  So I have been reading about milk chocolate and working up some test batches to taste.

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There are just four ingredients in a high-quality bar of milk chocolate: cocoa nibs, cocoa butter, whole milk powder, and cane sugar.  Besides using premium quality and fair trade ingredients, the differences in various milk chocolate bars lie in the proportion of those four ingredients.

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I think we have landed in a great place.  Our evaluation reveals:  a slightly milk forward taste (this is a milk chocolate bar after all), followed by a nice hit of chocolate (that's the 50% chocolate talking), a velvety smooth and creamy mouthfeel (thanks to the cocoa butter), with just enough sugar to balance the whole profile out.

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To my sweet wife: thanks for waiting while I made over 1000 bars of dark chocolate before attempting a milk chocolate bar.  I believe you when you say it is the best milk chocolate you have ever tasted.  It's not like you are biased or anything.

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One 2oz bar is $7.  Two or more bars at $6 each.

A crispy crunchy sourdough cracker made with 50% whole wheat that is freshly ground in my home mill.  Featuring spent grain from Sketchbook Brewery for even more flavor, fiber, and protein.  Topped with:

• Coarse Salt

• Freshly Ground Pepper

• Sunflower Seeds

• Pumpkin Seeds

• Flax Seeds

• Chia Seeds

• Sesame Seeds

• Poppy Seeds

6 oz. bag

$6.00 each