Summer in the Factory

sorry to our budding blog readers that there has been a distinct lack of action of late. although every year we swear we'll be ready and organised for the summer rush we always get knocked straight off our feet! it has been all hands on deck for the last few weeks and finding a few spare minutes has been a challenge.

since the factory is the focus in the summer i thought i'd tell you a little about it. in the summer we open our doors 7 days a week to visitors where they can taste, buy and during the week watch the chocolates being made.

our special this week is our chunky chocolate with killarney honey, almonds and raisins. this is proving particularly popular with the hill walkers and cyclists braving the kerry hills and who are in need of a bit of an energy boost! this creation was invented to use up the excess chocolate in the machine after we have been making our cocoa bean honey bars. Because we add so much honey to the chocolate, if you leave it overnight it hardens (rather than staying liquid and waiting to be retempered in the morning like our other chocolate) making it unusable and giving orla an hour long battle to clean out the machine! so we now unload the spare chocolate into trays at the end of the day, generously stud it with fruit and nuts and tie it up all pretty to fuel the hungry people.
our best selling bar this week is our sea salt. it has been selling as fast as (the photo shy) eileen can make it. i think our proximity to the beach really fuels people's imaginations when it comes to this chocolate.