How do you go from being a software engineer to producing 1,500 to 2,500 bonbons a week in your basement? For Liane Pensack-Rinehart, it started with a weekend pastry school program. Demand quickly grew for the organic, fair-trade chocolates she began making in 2019 under the name Colorado Cocoa Pod in her Green Valley Ranch home. There, it takes Pensack-Rinehart four days to produce each batch of jewel-like rounds (around $23 for six) and glossy tablets (starting at $16), often inspired by the flavors—milk tea, caramel and black sesame, matcha—she grew up devouring as a child of Chinese and Japanese descent.

She makes all her fillings from scratch, hand-paints the exteriors with colored cocoa butter, and slowly heats and cools the chocolate to yield a smooth, shiny finish using three tempering machines before selling her goods at pop-ups and through her online shop. For Valentine’s Day, look for lychee, passion fruit guava, and strawberries and cream masterpieces that are almost too beautiful to eat.

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