Where do you go to get extreme creativity in chocolate?

CHOCOLATES À LA CARTE, a California-based company, produces creations ranging from festive Valentine’s Day suckers to chocolate novelties topped with the logos of corporate clients, such as Print, Ford Motor Co, and IBM. They’ve made Chocolate saxophones for a dinner for President Clinton and chocolate sunglasses for an event honoring actor Jack Nicholson.

Mostly, they create desserts that some of the nation’s top chefs pass off as their own, or they create elements that chefs use in their own desserts—like white or dark or marbleized chocolate shells in shapes, such as cups, tulips, swans, magnolia leaves, and seashells. The company’s 4,500 customers include hotels, resorts, country clubs, airlines, cruise ships, and premier restaurants.

How does this help you? The chocolatiers at CHOCOLATES À LA CARTE can offer you their creativity for custom chocolates through local caterers and event planners with resale licenses who should be able to special order these custom chocolates for your wedding or event favors! Too, although there is a huge selection of themed shapes and sizes in their catalog, if CHOCOLATES À LA CARTE doesn’t already have something you are looking for, then creating a mold and customizing a chocolate is not out of the question.

I was once asked to bring a little bit of football to a very elegant wedding for 250 people at Sunset Magazine. The groom was a football coach, and the couple wanted the favor to reflect something about him. Of course, the first phone call I made was to CHOCOLATES À LA CARTE to see just what they already had available in their bag of tricks—a.k.a. their “product catalog.” As you can see in the picture below, they have a few great football-themed products available to choose from. The white decal can even be further customized with any team’s mascot…How cool is that?!

Another example of chocolate creativity by CHOCOLATES À LA CARTE can be seen in the picture below. I just couldn’t resist wowing a crowd of 650 for a “Surf’s Up!” themed fundraiser event. I worked with CHOCOLATES À LA CARTE to create these custom white-chocolate surfboards with my butterfly logo to serve on individual blue fondant cakes with brown sugar splashed on top to give the appearance of sand. This dessert was a tremendous success, and it turned out that most of the adults wanted to take the surfboards home to share with their kids.

To learn more about customizing chocolates for your upcoming wedding or event favors, or to request a copy of CHOCOLATES À LA CARTE’s catalog, then visit www.chocolatesalacarte.com