Charles Chocolates
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Artisan Chocolate Gift Set – Three Favorites
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Our sourcing standard Three tiers, stated plainly — including when a product is only partly made here.
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Independent American makers Every listing traces to a named workshop you can look up.
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Ships direct from the maker An order from several makers arrives in several boxes, each with its own shipping.
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Charles Chocolates
Our Story
Charles Chocolates was founded in 2004 by self-taught chocolatier Chuck (Charles) Siegel. Today its artisan confections are made in San Francisco, California. Siegel began working in the Bay Area chocolate community in 1987 and founded Charles Chocolates after an earlier chocolate business, Attivo.
The company treats chocolate as fresh food. Its focus is on carefully chosen ingredients, hand preparation, and small batches, with attention to the texture and flavor of each recipe. That approach is visible in copper-pot nut pralines, house-made pistachio cream, hand-prepared caramels, and roasted-nut chocolate bars.
What We Carry
Explore bittersweet and milk chocolate bars with cocoa nibs, crisped rice, nuts, coffee, toffee, and candied fruit. The range also includes ruby chocolate bars, smaller mini bars, nut-praline crunch bars, and Dubai-style pistachio bars with kataifi pastry.
For serving and gifting, choose chocolate-covered almonds, hazelnuts, and macadamias; candied lemon and Valencia orange peel; fleur de sel caramels; peanut-praline butterflies; Gianduja hazelnut-praline blocks; and fresh Pavés truffles. Assortments offer several recipes in one selection. Check the individual listing for its current contents, package count, size options, ingredients, and availability.
Start with the 72% caramelized cocoa nib bar, compare chocolate-covered California almonds, or explore more chocolate from American makers.
Why BuyAmerican.com Carries This Brand
Charles Chocolates brings California confection making to the marketplace. Its small-batch work emphasizes prepared fillings, roasted nuts, and deliberate texture combinations. Buyers can compare clearly identified chocolate styles rather than relying on a generic description of a chocolate gift.
American manufacturing and ingredient origin are separate considerations. The confections are made in the United States, but that does not establish that every cacao ingredient, flavoring, nut, fruit, or packaging component is domestically sourced. Individual listings identify specific ingredient origins only where the maker provides them.
American-Made Process
The Charles Chocolates confection line is handcrafted in San Francisco. Depending on the recipe, production includes roasting nuts, cooking toffee or caramel, caramelizing cocoa nibs, grinding nut pralines, preparing pistachio cream, and coating or molding chocolate. The finished recipes range from solid tablets with inclusions to layered filled bars and small boxed confections.
The Charles Chocolates and John Kelly combination gift brings together two makers: Charles Chocolates in San Francisco and John Kelly Chocolates in Hollywood, California. These are distinct production locations and distinct confection recipes. Both makers' ingredient and handling information matters when evaluating a combination assortment.
Care & Use
For standard Charles Chocolates products, use an airtight container in a cool, dry place, ideally 60–65°F, away from sunlight, moisture, and strong odors. The maker recommends enjoying standard chocolates within four weeks of receipt. Product-specific packaging directions take priority.
Pavés are an exception: keep these fresh-cream truffles refrigerated and enjoy them within one week. For assembled s'mores, the maker suggests briefly browning the marshmallow under a broiler or with a culinary torch; supervise heating and follow the appliance directions.
Review ingredients before sharing. The kitchen handles common allergens, and a recipe without a particular ingredient does not establish an allergen-free facility. Read the FDA guide to food-allergy labels for help interpreting package statements.
Shipping & Returns
The supplier generally packs and dispatches within one to two business days, with routine dispatch Monday through Wednesday. Qualifying overnight orders and Northern California deliveries may dispatch Thursday. Orders received after noon Pacific begin processing on the next business day. Friday and weekend dispatch are excluded. Check the product and checkout for shipping charges, temperature-related restrictions, and delivery estimates.
These confections are perishable food and fall under BuyAmerican's ordinary-return exception. Inspect deliveries promptly and contact BuyAmerican about damage, defects, or incorrect items. The supplier publishes a replacement or purchase-price-and-shipping refund remedy for transit damage caused by its negligence, with exclusions for melting linked to buyer-selected shipping and delays outside its control. Do not return food without instructions. Review BuyAmerican's food-return terms before ordering.
