April 6, 2008

Mast Brothers Chocolate

We love candy stories that include brothers cooking up confections on a shoestring (ahem...Boyer Brothers...), so we are thrilled to hear about Mast Brothers Chocolate.

Rick (complete with a Jacques Torres pedigree) and Michael Mast, always dreamed of interestingflavor combinations (dark chocolate with pecans roasted in maple sourced from Canada, dark milk chocolate and hazelnut, dark chocolate and pistachio), so one day they took the plunge into artisan chocolate.

They source their ingredients with care, primarily using single-origin Venezuelan and Ecuadorian cacao, or you can get plain single-origin bars as well.

Wrap all that goodness up in patterned wrappers, imported from Italy, and you have a really unique treat. Unfortunately for many of us, being the good artisans that they are, they're only selling in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Thank you Cool Hunting for the heads up and the image.