Customers have begged us to find a way to ship our salted caramel ganache, described by one of my French pastry heroes as vachement bonne (bloody good). At last we have found a way and are offering these chocolates – each a dessert in itself – in packages of four. They are perfect stocking stuffers. If you want to treat your friends and family to more variety, let them savor flavors like lime-pistachio ganache, orange chile, and Mexican coffee in our sampler sleeves of five chocolates. Order 10 of either the salted caramel ganache or the chocolate sampler and get one free.

Salted Caramel Ganache

5-Piece Chocolate Sampler

Summer may be gone but we have captured its bounty in our pâte de fruit, a confection that dates back to antiquity. This beguilingly simple favorite of French royalty is made just like it was in 10th century France to capture the essential flavors of fruits grown in the sun-drenched south and picked at the peak of its season to conserve them for the winter. Most confectioners use commercially-prepared fruit purées to make this delectable treat. All our fruit comes from the local farmers who sell at Chicago's Green City Market.

Try our traditional, all-fruit variety or our new "aigre-doux." Like chutney, a French aigre- doux combines sweet elements with complementary savory elements. This month’s flavors - blueberry-jalapeno, peach-Riesling, and strawberry-balsamic – pair just as well with cheese as our traditional pâte de fruit. And they add zing to any sweet break.

Assortments change with availability of local fruit and may include: raspberry, strawberry, apple, pear, plum, apricot, and blueberry.

Assortment of 7 traditional

Assortment of 17 traditional

Assortment of 7 aigre-doux

Assortment of 17 aigre-doux

Our nougat screams of the farm fresh honey we use from Ellis Farms in Benton Harbor, Michigan. Honey lovers will not be able to resist these soft, chewy delicacies inspired by the confection that created a veritable industry in the southern French town of Montelimar, not far from Provence's lavender fields. Try the traditional Nougat de Montelimar,studded with pistachios and golden toasted almonds or our local riff, with dried cherries from Seedling Orchards in South Haven Michigan and toasted pecans from Three Sisters Farm in Tennessee. Chocolate and hazelnut lovers will not want to miss the gianduja nougat adding a blend of chocolate and caramelized hazelnuts to the nougat’s chewy honey base.

Box of 15 Almond/Pistachio

Box of 15 Pecan/Michigan Cherry

Box of 15 Gianduja/Hazelnut/Pistachio

Combination Box of 15 (5 of each flavor)

Everything Flora's grandfather ate was always the best thing he had ever had. She thinks of him whenever we say that our passion fruit caramels are the best candy we have ever produced (at least for a while). We have been working for a year to recreate the sublime passion fruit caramels we tasted in Paris last year. Produced by Jacques Genin, who only relatively recently opened his own shop in Paris, these caramels had unbeknownst to us developed legions of devoted followers who tasted them in restaurants and scandalously asked for seconds. We are so confident that you will like them that we are packaging them in an 8-pack all by themselves. But if you thrive on variety, try our 8-pack, with a combination of passion fruit and raspberry. Either way, you will be convinced that acidic fruits make an ideal complement to the richness of caramel's butter and cream.

Purchase Tube of 8 All Passion Fruit

Purchase Tube of 8 All Raspberry

Purchase Tube of 8 Passion Fruit/Raspberry

Sweets should not be vexing. As my wonderful teachers at the French Pastry School tell all beginning students, this is a business about bringing pleasure to people. So we figured it was time to develop a product that would put an end to the sometimes tortured deliberations we witness as our customers debate which sweet to buy as gifts. Now you can have the best of all worlds, and local at that. Our new locavore assortment is assembled in our signature lime green box.

Assortment contains 8 pieces of cherry-pecan nougat, 6 raspberry caramels, and 8 assorted pâte de fruit

Many customers say our 12-piece assortment is too beautiful to eat. These chocolate jewels offer a sample of the sophisticated flavor palette - everything from herbs and spices to teas and nuts - that we believe complements the natural tones of our Madagascar Grand Cru chocolate. It's a perfect hostess gift.

Boxes include such flavors as: Flora salted caramel, honey anise, praline cream, Klug Farm plum pâte de fruit, Earl Grey tea ganache, Raspberry tonka bean caramel ganache, Szechuan caramel ganache, five spice ganache, Hillside Orchards apricot pâte de fruit, gianduja ganache, coffee cardamom.

Box of 12 assorted chocolates and pâte de fruit

Mendiants are a classic French confection consisting of a disk of chocolate topped with dried fruit and nuts. The various types of nuts and fruits are said to refer to various mendicant religious orders, such as the Dominican and Franciscan monks, who depended on charity to survive and serve the poor. Our mendiants offer a twist on the French classic: Made with Madagascar Grand Cru chocolate, they are topped with morsels of raspberry pate de fruit and caramelized pistachio nuts. These seemingly simple treats have all the complexity of a sophisticated ganache. They are a religious experience!

Box of 12 Raspberry/Caramelized Pistachio

Our confitures can be eaten all day long. Their distinctive flavor combinations make them versatile accompaniments not just to bread, but to meat, cheese, and dessert. We were proud that our friends at Capriole Cheese featured our Double Honey at its spring James Beard House dinner. With just a hint of rosemary, our rhubarb-honey conserves are as good on toast as with pork tenderloin or fromage blanc.

Honey Hazelnuts – 9 oz. jar. Simply the best Oregon hazelnuts combined with local honey and a plump Madagascar vanilla bean! We waited two months for these nuts to be ready and it was worth the wait! We mixed them with Greek yogurt and are blazing through dairy like we have not done in years. Try them on ice cream if you dare.

Double Honey - 9 oz jar. We poach Honey Crisp apples with honey to make a confiture that is about as versatile as they come. Try it in yogurt or with pork tenderloin. Or break out a good sharp cheddar.

Rhubarb-Honey - 9 oz blend of Mick Klug rhubarb, Ellis Farm honey, and Genesis rosemary

Caramelized Plum - 9 oz jar. We let the sugar carmelize just lightly before adding small succulent plums. The result is an unusually rich taste and texture that you'll love on French toast or on your favorite scone.

Chile Cherry - 9 oz jar. We steep Michigan sour cherries for just a little while with chile de arbol peppers to capture the subtle flavor of the chiles without making a three-alarm fire in your mouth. The result is a distinctive cherry taste complemented by a slightly savory accent that pairs well with cheeses or meats, but still tastes great on your morning toast or in yogurt.

Raspberry Pepin - 9 oz jar. Why strain the seeds ("pepins" in French) when they add so much extra flavor? This confiture is like an Austrian linzer tort minus the crust. We love to start our day with this luscious spread on toast or in our yogurt.

Apricot - 9 oz jar. Our customers wait all year for the brief season when we can make these superb confitures. Our careful cooking process take time, but it retains the gorgeous blushing orange of the apricots and their incomparable flavor. We have stopped counting the number of plump Madagascar vanilla beans we use to make the apricots dance in your mouth. Try a dollop with rice pudding. Your grandmother never had a recipe like this!

Blueberry Pinot Noir - 9 oz jar. We love to drizzle these preserves over sliced peaches or raspberries with vanilla ice cream, or use them to enliven pancakes or French toast instead of maple syrup. Tasting Table says, "To put them on bread is to turn toast triumphant."

Rhubarb Chutney - 9 oz. jar. If you're the kind of person who eats pizza for breakfast, there's probably nothing that's off-limits for our first chutney offering, which blends Mick Klug's rhubarb with Seedling's dried cherries. For hot foods, think duck or pork and some say breakfast toast, or for cold, think cheese or turkey sandwiches. In any case, you'll be at the bottom of the jar before you know it.

Black Raspberry - 9 oz. jar. A glorious indulgence, these confitures vanish practically the moment they are sold. We promise we'll do our best to keep up with the demand, but the season is unfortunately only two weeks long. The berries snuck up on us at the Market and they will sneak away just as fast.

Honey Peach - 9 oz. jar. This just could rival our apricot confitures in loyalty. A hint of added je ne sais quoi should inspire lovers of sweet and savory.

Strawberry-Rhubarb - 9 oz. jar. The straight deal, these confitures bring together the best of both worlds - sweet and tart. Ideal for toast and crepes, they also make a sublime last-minute dessert with vanilla ice cream and some toasted almonds.

Fig-Pine Nut - 9 oz. jar - A few lucky customers got their hands on our limited run last year and their perseverance has prompted us to increase our production. But fresh figs won't last long, so if you're looking for the perfect accompaniment to your cheese plate, don't waver. This will be gone before the plums arrive.

We hate to see people struggle over which of our confitures to select. So we have put together a gift box containing an assortment of some of our best-selling classics, as well as a surprise. Save on the purchase of individual jars. This month’s surprise is pineapple-date chutney, with a hint of chile, is lucious and spreadable for toast but like our other confitures, equally good as an accompaniment to cheese and meat. To round out the color and flavor palate, we’ll also be including our Raspberry Pepin and Blueberry Pinot Noir. Faithful readers of our newsletter will recall that the Blueberry confitures have a deep wine flavor and are perfect accompaniments to fresh raspberries and sliced peaches, yoghurt, French toast, and crepes.

We stick pretty close to tradition, but always with a modern twist. Market Jacques is a riff on the old ballgame classic, with caramelized corn and pecans from farmers at the Green City Market. Of course, we add our own mystery spices. The only way to eat just a handful is to use them as a topping for a sundae.

100 gram bag