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If you've been visiting us over the years, you'll know we do a 💯 🍫 Halloween front counter display every year. What more fun than to be able to choose your Halloween chocolates from a spooky display? 😀

This year, I left @woweezappo and @stevehimm in charge of creating the spooky display, and they worked away on it over a few Saturdays. They made a killer scene! There are even zombies that represent each one of our production team. 🧟‍♂️ You definitely gotta come check it out. Photos do not compare to seeing it in person.

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It's getting spooky, in #thechocolatelab.

#boxofbones #chocolate #skulls #halloween

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Happy 🦃 weekend, fellow 🇨🇦. I hope you are able to spend time with family and friends, eat lots of good food, including 🍫, and consider all we have to be thankful for.

#thechocolatelab #yyc #chocolate #bonbons #patisserie #yummy #tasty #pastryinspiration #chefsgossips #chefsroll #calgary #yyceats #handmade #instagood #canada #calgaryfood #dailyhiveyyc #iamdowntownyyc #chinatown #yycnow #thanksgiving

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What's my current addiction? These...can't stop.

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Friends, our award winning Lychee Rose is back after a hiatus, and you'll notice it's got an updated design going on. We've also reformulated the recipe, returning to it's original dual layer ganache, but this time, we've added Ruby to the rose layer, for a slight twist.

Stop by the Lab next time you're downtown, and become reacquainted with this award winning flavour.

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Hang onto your hats friends, as it's about to get really interesting.
I'm in the process of making the seasonal flavour changes to our main bonbon line, and there are a number of new or newly returned flavours coming your way, over the next few days.

This one is an OG fave, for those that have been following along our journey over the years. It's been updated and re-designed, and the taste...words escape how happy I am for its return.
Leather & Walnut. A dark chocolate ganache using an exquisite blend of origin chocolate from 3 regions (Brazil, El Salvador, PNG), paired with a gold-medal winning rye whiskey, that is produced and sold only in London, UK.

It's time to refresh your tastebuds if you're a long time fan of this flavour. And if you're new to it, be sure to add one to your next box.

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As we start the seasonal shift, we turn our eyes (and tastebuds) to more fall flavours, including the return of this fan fave.

Move over pumpkin spice latte... we've got the whole pumpkin pie going on, at #thechocolatelab.

This festive beauty features three layers: a vanilla caramel, a Tahitian vanilla white chocolate ganache, and a milk chocolate ganache paired with pumpkin and fresh ground pumpkin pie spices.

This is one of my seasonal faves. I may have eaten a few of these during the photoshoot. 😋

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Ever wonder what a whole box of one flavour looks like? Well, wonder no more.

I've been packing up a bunch of single flavour boxes this week. They're on their way to T.dot, for a weekend event.

But seriously, I could just eat this whole box myself. It's one of my favourite flavours we produce, and it's recently gotten even better!

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Every year, at the culmination of our Feature Flavour series, we release a limited edition 'Best of' #featurefriday collection.

This year, I let you have a hand in deciding which flavours would make it in the box. I know many of you out of towners didn't get a chance to try these, due to geographic limitations, so you were mainly going on flavour description.

Well, your instincts were right, as this year's Feature collection is a real winner! It's a great varied set of flavours, most of which aren't available on the slates.

And I pulled out the fancy LE boxes, just for the occasion.
These are only available for a limited time, and are currently only available at the #Chinatown shop. They will be available on our 🇨🇦 online shop next week.

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It's not often I have a Monday off, but it's a great chance to reflect on all the fun we have creating chocolate dreams for you all.

I'm grateful for everyone on our team, here at #thechocolatelab. It's been a real pleasure leading a team of such eager and passionate young minds, with such a willingness to learn, and grow together. We've accomplished so much, in such a little time. Thank you for your dedication.

And friends, thank you for continuing to support our business, and allowing us to share our many 🍫 creations with you.

#labordayweekend #gratitude #appreciation #thankyou

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Happy Long Weekend, friends!

If you are downtown tomorrow for the parade, be sure to stop by the #chinatown shop to fill up. We've got many treats to satisfy the diverse tastes of every chocoholic.

And a PSA that we're open holiday hours on Labour Day (12-6). #thechocolatelab #yyc #chocolate #bonbons #patisserie #yummy #tasty #pastryinspiration #chefsgossips #chefsroll #calgary #yyceats #handmade #instagood #canada #calgaryfood #dailyhiveyyc #iamdowntownyyc #chinatown #yycnow #prideyyc #calgarypride 🏳️‍🌈

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Friends, the final Feature Flavour of our summer #featurefriday series is here. Can you believe we've been doing this for 15 weeks, already? Summer sure has flown by!

In creating this flavour, I wanted to take you on a bit of a travel (and flavour) adventure.

Back in 2007, I was working up in Aomori, and when I wasn't working, I travelled around the country a bit...in the pursuit of good eats.

One of Japan's favourite dishes is curry, so there are a lot of opportunities to eat curry, while there. And with my British lineage, I can't turn down a good curry!

Karē Yuzu.

This week's feature pays tribute to both Japanese curry, and the bright citrus taste of Yuzu, infused in white chocolate and Ruby layers.

Kampai!

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Bloom sandwich.

If you had quickly looked at this slab of chocolate before I broke it into pieces, you may have assumed it was in temper, from its surface appearance.
But we can easily reorder the crystals, and make things right. Fait accompli.

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The evolution of a nut.
Our Caramel Latte Hazelnuts are so darned popular. It seems I'm making fresh batches of these all the time!
They consist of two layers of coffee infused chocolates, surrounding a roasted hazelnut.

When people come into the shop and ask me what I'm eating these days, I'll point to our dragee selection, and more specifically these. I'm kind of obsessed, actually.

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When we do multi layered #bonbons that are as pretty inside as they are outside, I feel the urge to take a cut shot, so you can see them in all their beauty.

This week's Feature Flavour is inspired by Carmen Miranda...yes, *that* Carmen Miranda...the cultural icon of a glamorous woman with a glorious array of fruits upon her head.

We created an intense currant infused chocolate, made using amazing fruit from our friends @purelyartisan. It's paired with mango, passionfruit, and a bevy of other fruit flavours, for a flavour fiesta, of sorts. 🎉🎉 #thechocolatelab #yyc #chocolate #bonbons #edibleart #instagood #patisserie #yummy #tasty #pastryinspiration #explore #chefsgossips #chefsroll #calgary #iamdowntown #yyceats #handmade #instagood #canada #featuteflavour #featurefriday #new #flavour

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And after you execute each production step with care and precision, you literally can one shot crackout all day long.

It's extremely satisfying!

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I had a good working day. Think I deserve a treat, to beat this summer heat!

How's your Wednesday treating you?

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I remember when I first got a set of these polygon tablet molds, a number of years back, from my good friends @cocoa.ann and @chocolatemark.

I felt like a kid on Xmas morning when I received these...they were so original and unique, and presented a simple piece of chocolate in such an elegant way.
Also, nobody else had them yet, as this was before @cacaobarryofficial started manufacturing them en masse, so they seemed extra special.

I still love these. They are still as relevant as the day they were released.

What's your fave shape? Does it even matter, to you? I'm an aesthete...looks matter.

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