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L.A. Burdick Chocolate is a privately held, New England-based maker of high-end artisanal American chocolates. Burdick Chocolate has retail shops in Cambridge MA and Walpole NH. It also has a direct-sales business through its website or via a toll free number.

Besides gourmet Chocolate Bonbons, Chocolate truffles, and Luxembourgers (Luxemburgerli), L.A. Burdick Chocolate is famous for their signature chocolate mice – hand-piped ganache interiors dipped in chocolate - finished with almond ears and tails of silk. Burdick Chocolate also produces popular wedding and special event favors, corporate gifts, gift baskets, and their “cosmic, life-changing” hot chocolate.

History
Larry Burdick was a pioneer in the American fine chocolate movement, which represents a growing movement of small chocolate makers sharing their passion for the fine chocolate medium. Founding the L.A. Burdick Chocolate Company in Brooklyn NY in 1987, he introduces his chocolate bonbons to a handful of NYC restaurants and caterers after spending several years under the tutelage of several multi-generational family chocolate businesses in Switzerland.

The company moved to Walpole NH in 1993, to allow for further expansion of the chocolate business as well as entry into ......

Today
In 2006, Burdick Chocolate sought to establish ties to the Island of Grenada and build a bridge for a direct-to-growers channel that would ensure quality and availability of single source cocoa beans. Working with the Grenada Cocoa Association, he worked hard to set up a regular supply of high quality cocoa beans needed for the finest chocolate making as well as to help address the island’s environmental and social concerns.