In St. Paul, off of Transfer road, is a non-descript brick business office park. Inside you will find some of the best chocolates being made by Mary Leonard at Chocolat Celeste. Mary has been making chocolates for a very long time and moved her shop from University Avenue onto Transfer Rd. in the office park because it had a wonderful professional kitchen within which she could craft her famous chocolates. The new location has plenty of parking and when I went on a Saturday they had a chocolate tasting happening in the back room. Mary is an expert at beautiful packaging and creates custom chocolates and flavors for corporate gifts or wedding favors.
The sweet spot for Chocolat Celeste is the truffles and bon bons. Each morsel is made with local cream from Pride of Main Street and Hope Creamery butter. You can tell the difference in her truffles and bon bons is the high quality ingredients as they are so creamy and luscious bite after bite. Chocolat Celeste chocolates have very unique and sophisticated flavor profiles. In my box I found bon bons filled with a pear cognac in a white chocolate ganache and a dark chocolate bon bon with Chai bittersweet chocolate ganache. Her signature flavor is called the Celestial Sweetie and is pure simple bittersweet chocolate with chocolate ganache throughout. It is divine. There are salted caramels with dark chocolate and hot chili and pumpkin spice bon bons.
This season she partnered up with Rush River Brewing Company from Wisconsin and created a Porter truffle where the beer is boiled down and concentrated and mixed with the ganache inside the chocolate. Also in the beer lovers box is Winter Ale and an Alt Bier flavor these are tasty and beautiful dark chocolates with bright green designs on them. When packaged in the lime green box, these truffles make the perfect gift for any of the beer lovers in our life.
It doesn’t have to be a special occasion to indulge in this sweet confection, so head to Chocolate Celeste and grab some for yourself!
625 Transfer Avenue, St Paul, MN. (651) 644-3823
www.chocolatceleste.com
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