L. A. Burdick Chocolates
About
L.A. Burdick Chocolates is an artisan chocolatier known for hand-piped, hand-shaped and hand-garnished bonbons made with natural ingredients. Its best-known creations are the “whimsicals,” including the Signature Chocolate Mouse and chocolate penguins, and its range also covers European-style bonbon assortments, single-origin bars and renowned drinking chocolate. Burdick’s cafes serve chocolate and coffee, and the company supplies favors for large social and corporate events.
Founder Larry Burdick trained as a chocolatier in Bern, Switzerland, and returned in 1987 with a chocolate pot, a guitar cutter, dipping forks and a goal of making confections where quality cocoa, not sugar, was the main ingredient. He is widely regarded as a pioneer of fine chocolate in America, blending Swiss technique, French gastronomy and American imagination. Every piece is still shaped by hand rather than molded.
What to Know
- Burdick operates chocolate shops and cafes in Brookline, Cambridge, Walpole, New York City, Chicago and Washington, DC.
- Seasonal collections can be pre-ordered for Halloween, Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas and Robert Burns Day.
- The Halloween collection includes chocolate cats, ghosts, ravens and acorns.
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