Entry No. 1,284 — Thursday, October 2

Every bonbon, written down.

We roast, grind and temper our own chocolate on Main Street, then hand-paint each bonbon. Every batch gets a line in the ledger: the bean, the farm, the day.

  • 06:10Roasted 12 kg Tumaco cacao✓
  • 09:45Tempered 72% for shells✓
  • 13:30Painted 640 bonbons, 9 flavors…
Painted chocolate bonbons on a steel tray

Box of 9$32hover the ledger to lift a bonbon

Today's ledger

Nine bonbons in the case today. Shells are 72% Colombian or 40% Ecuadorian milk. Fillings are made the same morning and last about two weeks, so eat them soon.

No.BonbonShell, originEach
Box of 9, one of each$32.00

From the case

Bonbons, truffles and the odd experiment. Photographed on the counter, no styling.

A box of assorted chocolate truffles
Assorted, box of 16
Chocolate truffles with piped decoration on a plate
Piped dark truffles
Truffles rolled in chopped pistachio
Pistachio rolled
Coconut and cocoa dusted truffles
Coconut & cocoa
Painted bonbons on a steel tray
Painted bonbons

Build a box

Pick the flavors yourself or let us choose. Every box is tied with cotton string and comes with a printed ledger card so you know what you're eating.

Box of 4

The sampler

$15
  • Four bonbons, your pick
  • Good for a thank-you
Pick 4

Box of 9, most popular

One of everything

$32
  • All nine of today's bonbons
  • Printed ledger card
  • Ready in 5 minutes, or ships Mon–Wed
Build my box of 9

Box of 16

The big ledger

$54
  • Doubles of your favorites
  • Plus one bar of the month
Pick 16

Bean to bonbon

We started with a notebook and a hair dryer.

In 2017, Priya Natarajan was roasting cacao in her apartment oven and cracking shells with a hair dryer. She kept notes on every batch in a green accounting ledger she found at an estate sale on Packard. Six notebooks later, she opened the shop.

We still make every bar from the bean, still paint every bonbon by hand, and still write every batch down. Ask to see the ledger. We'll show you.

2017 ... apartment oven, 1 kg batches
2019 ... farmers market stall, Saturdays
2021 ... shop opens, 211 S. Main St
2023 ... direct trade with 3 farms
today .. 1,284 batches logged

Shop

211 S. Main St

Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Across from the Michigan Theater's old box office. Free tastings at the counter.

Hours

Open

Tue – Thu
11:00 – 19:00
Fri – Sat
11:00 – 21:00
Sunday
12:00 – 17:00
Monday
closed

Shipping

Cold-packed

We ship Monday to Wednesday so nothing sits in a warm truck over a weekend. Corporate gifts from 20 boxes.

Ship a box