“Our product is very exclusive,” he explained. “We create chocolates of extremely high quality. We buy BC fruit and some dairy, teas, etc., locally. We source our ingredients at local places like ChaiBaba, Gellatly Nut Farm, Canoe Coffee Roasters, Sun City Cherries, Paynter’s Fruit Market, Carmelis Farm, and places like Weiser Family Farms for our ginger and BC Tree Fruits for the Broken Ladder Cider. We change our chocolates seasonally so we don’t have the same flavour all the time.” But they do have some delicious treats for the holiday season. “In the cooler months we use things like tea, coffee, preserves, chai spices, popcorn and beets in our chocolate. We also have advent calendars coming out this year made with single-origin milk, white and dark chocolate.” Karat’s chocolates are available in boxes of 12, and this season there will be boxes of 24 and 50 for entertaining. There’s also the chocolate library. “We have a box set of bars, with six bars in it — one of everything — and we’ve made it look a bookcase.” There are several other delicious options at Karat. The cherry bon bon is almost too pretty to eat. “The chocolate shell is made from chocolate from Valrhona [chocolates] in France. Then we cook the cherry and make a ganache filling to go inside the shell. Then we dust it with cocoa butter to make it look like velvet. We top it off with a 23K gold flake.” Another favourite is the Apple Cider Caramel. “We make this one with BC Tree Fruit’s Broken Ladder apple cider. We add in tons of butter and cream and surround it with a 70 per cent Valrhona dark chocolate. Then we coat it with cocoa butter.” You’ll be amazed how much this bon bon tastes like a home-made apple pie!
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