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ChocolateHares Nostalgic Chocolate Creations using 1920s vintage tin molds. I am more of an artist then a chocolatier, and love collecting antique chocolate molds.

Being German, this is very much part of my cultural identity and history.

Happy Halloween!
10/31/2025

Happy Halloween!

From the Halloween candy shop: Ghostly Kitties Salted Caramels. Don't loose your head! 🎃👻😸
10/22/2025

From the Halloween candy shop:
Ghostly Kitties Salted Caramels. Don't loose your head! 🎃👻😸

Thomas Mills & Bros, 19th century confectioner's tools manufacturers, PA USA vintage toy candy mold. These are very sim...
10/21/2025

Thomas Mills & Bros, 19th century confectioner's tools manufacturers, PA USA vintage toy candy mold.

These are very similar to the German Zuckerhasen molds. No doubt these candies have their roots with German traditions of melted sugar figurines - a sweet treat that predates chocolate. The Germans invented the sugar extraction process from beets, which made sugar more affordable and accessible to the public.

Salted Caramel Lollipop Broomsticks!These are with an old Canadian mold meant for maple candy, using a recipe from Ontar...
10/21/2025

Salted Caramel Lollipop Broomsticks!
These are with an old Canadian mold meant for maple candy, using a recipe from Ontario, eh! Tastes like Werther's Original.

03/11/2025

The most expensive mold in my collection is among the smallest, and only one half side to boot. It is also a reminder of self worth.

This Anton Reiche mold is rare and highly collectible. I immediately felt a personal connection to the motive. It had popped up on Ebay as a mold with two matching sides. As a savvy bidder you hold your load literally until the last heart-throbbing 5 seconds, and then you give it all you got. But I held back because of thoughts of how insane it is to put that much money on the table for a chocolate mold.

I lost the bid. I lost because of self imposed feelings of shame for something I love.

When a half side of the mold came up on Ebay some time later, I had to have it at all cost - as a reminder that I sabotaged myself by feeling unworthy - something nobody should do to themselves.

Pristine 100+ year old custom made chocolate mold for the "N.V. West Indische Import Company" or, in English, "Dutch Wes...
03/11/2025

Pristine 100+ year old custom made chocolate mold for the "N.V. West Indische Import Company" or, in English, "Dutch West India Import Company Ltd".

A piece like this is a relic of history. For the educated person, the use of it for chocolate would be inappropriate, because the Dutch West India Import Company had strong links to slavery.

The details on these delicate, thin, 30 gram bars is unreal. Dark chocolate, flavoured with orange oil. Back in the days, this possibly served as a corporate gift or souvenir - an expression of the riches plundered from the Caribbean and brought to Europe.

The motto reads: Justitia – Pietas – Fides (“Justice – Piety – Fidelity”) and is part of the coat of arms of Suriname - a country under Dutch rule at the time.

It occurred to me too late that I have the perfect chocolate for World Lion Day! (Which was yesterday) Here it is anywa...
08/11/2024

It occurred to me too late that I have the perfect chocolate for World Lion Day! (Which was yesterday) Here it is anyway :)

Vintage mold is #3162 by Gebrüder Frank in Freital Germany (Saxony). Copper plated tin.

Chocolate is Callebaut, blend of milk and white to get the beige for the lion body, with details of dark and white chocolate.

These are figures I made last year at this time. I still love looking at them, because they radiate such warmth and chee...
03/19/2023

These are figures I made last year at this time. I still love looking at them, because they radiate such warmth and cheer!

Hopefully I have some actual chocolate figures to showcase soon, but for today lets look at another mold I collected rec...
03/18/2023

Hopefully I have some actual chocolate figures to showcase soon, but for today lets look at another mold I collected recently.

This beautiful, likely 100 years old 20 cm (8 inch) tall German mold by NICLAS shows the typical anthropomorphic Easter Hare in most exquisit detail. In the past I would have considered sending this mold out for stripping and re-plating, but I had disappointing results and won't do that again.

Once polished, this mold can still produce chocolate figures, but only for show and tell and personal consumption.

A collection of three molds by the company M-B, which I assume was based in the USA, but not much else is known. Their p...
03/17/2023

A collection of three molds by the company M-B, which I assume was based in the USA, but not much else is known. Their production appears to have been very small, but unique in that their molds were made of Nickel Silver or German Silver - a copper alloy that did not tarnish or rust and therefore required no plating.

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