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Country Acres Saturday, March 16, 2024
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decadence Crafting
Browerville woman creates artisan chocolates BY SARAH COLBURN STAFF WRITER PHOTOS SUBMITTED
Candace Perish holds boxes of handmade artisanal chocolates. Perish launched her chocolate business in 2022. (Background) Chocolates, finished with an intricate chocolate transfer sheet design, add a festive flair to the specialty chocolate boxes Candace Perish creates. The cottage foodlicensed producer creates thousands of chocolates for customers each year.
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by accident. This year alone, through her Candies by Candace business, Perish created roughly 3,000 individual chocolates to meet the demand of her customers for Valentine’s Day. “I absolutely love chocolate, and I love working with good chocolate,” she said. “I hand samples out to friends. … The look on their face when they’re eating that piece of candy — that’s my little
BROWERVILLE — Candace Perish spends nights and weekends working over her melter and the cool marble slab she uses to perfectly temper chocolate to create a glistening, shiny shell. It is a finicky process, and one she has taken years, and lots of schooling, to perfect. As she gently pours the molten mixture into polycarbonate Candace molds, she forms a thin, Perish fills fragile layer of bon bon her chocolate shell, ready for filling. creations with From her home in everything from Browerville, the accaramel to dark chocolate ganache to countant by day and mint and fruit flavors chocolatier by night including lemon, banana has created a bustling cream and raspberry milk candy side business chocolate ganache.
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warm fuzzy.” As a lover of all things chocolate, Perish said she appreciates the craftsmanship and flavor that goes into crafting high-quality chocolates. She told her husband that she would love to be able to create something that wonderful, so, he found her a class. Now, she spends time before each holiday, with
Christmas and Valentine’s Day being her busiest times of the year, creating thousands upon thousands of hand-crafted and handfilled pieces. Perish page 2
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