November 26, 2008 – 9:42 am
 Holiday greetings from us at Grocer's Daughter Chocolate,
Our upcoming holiday season brings tradition of family and friends gatherings as well as gift giving. We hope that you will order chocolate from our ever growing production.
Many of you visited our quaint shop in Empire, Michigan this summer, others have met us on line or in other stores that carry our chocolates. We are grateful for your business and we are committed to ship our flavorful and soulful chocolates to you and family and friends.
We are a small company and we can customize your orders. Email or call us for arrangements. Corporate orders welcome.
The Empireal Box
This chocolate colored box showcases some of our most revered chocolates: A box of 16 eclectic truffles/caramels/bonbons (two of each: cherry, maya, basil, cardamom, gianduja, espresso, nutty and sea salt caramels); a Wally, Blue and Elara Bar; a bag of chocolate hazelnuts; one each of the dark and milk Zen Bars.
As a bonus, we've included a beautiful poem about Empire by our poet friend Ann Marie Oomen.
$60
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Mimi's Medley
I have picked a box affordable to ship in quantity to several of your friends, family members or co-workers: Two caramels or truffles, a Wally Bar and a Honey Caramel Turtle.
$17
*** 6 or more Mimi's Medley boxes $15 each. Call us for this deal!
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Twelve Delectable Honey Caramels
Three of each: sea salt, nutty (hazelnut), berry (raspberry) and espresso caramels; each with our velvety honey caramel base in a dark chocolate shell.
$22
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November 10, 2008 – 1:03 am
Our Empire store is becoming more green. Our building is bold and colorful and, more importantly, our packaging is much more eco-friendly.
We welcome you inside our boldly-painted shop to savor a few new products…
 
 
Our high-cocoa chocolate honey caramels are adventurous and delicious and come in these four flavors: bold smoked sea salt, sultry espresso, divine hazelnut and luscious raspberry.
The caramels are a special treat for the holidays and will stay fresh throughout.
A 2-box is $4.50, 4 for $8, 6 for $11, or 12 for $22.
Add $8.50 for Priority Mail to ensure safe and timely delivery.
These luscious caramels are made from 65% dark Rainforest Alliance-certified high cocoa content chocolate, cream, and local honey. We use no corn syrup in our production.
We're open 7 days a week from 10AM to 5PM EST, and our phone number is: 231-326-3030.
Call us to place your order today, in time for the holidays.
September 4, 2007 – 3:29 pm
The Wally Bar has been a great success. Thank you to everyone who has given us feedback. We love hearing from you. Soon we will be offering it on our website so that you can order in online. Also we have made changes to the ingredients. We all loved the sesame sticks but it shortened the shelf life. So we have done away with the sticks and replaced them with toasted sesame seeds. Let me say the change was more than a practical move, its a new and improved flavor for sure.
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September 4, 2007 – 2:09 pm
We have been lucky with the press we have gotten here at Grocers Daughter Chocolate. In the recent news we have been sited in the Record Eagle and at chocolate atlas on the web. Please check out the articles and look for a new piece to appear in the Record Eagle about Miriam who has been an apprentice with us. She will be opening her own chocolate business in Ecuador and we plan to help support her with a featured item at our store.
http://www.record-eagle.com/2007/may/30inbiz.htm
http://www.chocolateatlas.com/
September 4, 2007 – 2:08 pm
As a result of our constant experimenting we have a list of flavors that takes up the entire alphabet. How can we stop now? In order to deal with our extensive list we have decided to make the flavors seasonal. This will also ensure that we are always able to use the freshest ingredients as they come into season here in Northern Michigan and as they match the mood of the year. The changes will be as follows and will appear on the BYOB Box page.
ALWAYS IN SEASON: Cherry, Blueberry, Raspberry, Honey, Mint, Lavender, Thyme, Rosemary, Whiskey, Fig, Grand Marnier, Courvoisier, Espresso, Mayan, Arriba
SEPT-NOV: Basil, Pomegranate, Cardamom, Almond
DEC-FEB: Pomegranate, Cranberry, Cardamom, Tequila
MAR-MAY: Guinness, Irish Cream, Hummingbird, Lemon Verbena, Apricot
JUNE-AUG: Basil, Hummingbird, Almond, Apricot, Lemon Verbena
A group of small business owners and entrepeneurs are meeting monthly to create joint ventures, to support a mission of green business, the love of good food, great products and having fun.
Higher Grounds Coffee (Jody Treeter), Food For Thought (Tim Young), Light of Day Tea (Angela Macki), Leelanau Trading Post-Leather Goods (Ted Gilmer) Pinkie Finger Press (Ashlea Walters), Grocer's Daughter Chocolate (yours truely, Mimi Wheeler). We wish for you to make our acquaintance and to find our products and services. Some of us travelled to the amazing Green Business Conference and Festival in Chicago together. We are all on a journey together to find greener values. Some of us are allready organic and fair trade certified and others are heading in this direction. We value input about this process from our valued readers! We will feature them in future e news letters.
Please check us out on our respective websites!
http://www.foodforthought.net/
http://www.lightofdayorganics.com
http://www. javaforjustice.com
http://www.pinkiefingerpress.com
I just wanted to let you know that we are all taking a vacation this year and will be closed the last week of March. So March 25, Sunday, until the following Sunday, April 1st, there will be no business: internet or shop. So stock up before we leave and we'll see you in April.
 This is a 7 oz bag of our Rainforest Alliance Chocolate, 65%, as it comes to us in chunks for easy melting. We sell these at the shop for munching or to use in recipes at $5.50 a bag. While the weather is still chilly outside I thought I would share our Hot Chocolate Recipe with you.
HOT CHOCOLATE
a handful of chocolate chunks
1 cup water
1 cup milk
Melt the chocolate in the water until it has completely dissolved. The chocolate melts better in water, making a smoother cup. Then add the milk and heat it to desired temperature. Be sure not to boil the milk. Using a whisk helps to make a nice blended frothy cup.
* for a more interesting version try adding one or more of the following: cinnamon, any type of hot chile, cloves, or fresh ginger.
More new truffle flavors are here in the spirit of the Irish Holiday. The first is our Irish Cream truffle, shown left, with Bailey's in the ganache and the second is our Stout truffle, shown above, with Guiness beer in the ganache. They are both regular price and can be added to any box by ordering over the phone.
 This April 21st and 22nd we are participants at the Green Festival in Chicago. We are really excited to be a part of this great festival. We are always hoping to make our business more environmentally safe and responsible and we anticipate that this will be a great learning experience for us. If anyone is in the Chicago area during this time we would love to see you there and encourage you to take part in the event. The event will take place at the McCormick Place/ Lakeside, 2301 S Lakeshore Dr. Chicago IL. Saturday 10am-8pm and Sunday 11am-6pm. Ticket prices have not yet been set but they are trying to make them as affordable as possible and have been guaranteed to not exeed $15 for adults. Children 12 and under will be free. Hope to see you there and wish us luck!
To get more details go to their website: http://www.greenfestivals.org
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