Lake Champlain Chocolates offers sweet indulgences that capture the essence of Vermont, the tradition of making fine chocolate, and the pride that goes into each bite. It started with a dare in 1983, in the kitchen of the Ice House Restaurant in Burlington. Every year, Jim Lampman would buy his staff fancy chocolates as holiday gifts. One year, his pastry chef confessed that the chocolates were pretty mediocre. So Jim dared him to make something better. Together they began making the most ama
Lake Champlain Chocolates offers sweet indulgences that capture the essence of Vermont, the tradition of making fine chocolate, and the pride that goes into each bite. It started with a dare in 1983, in the kitchen of the Ice House Restaurant in Burlington. Every year, Jim Lampman would buy his staff fancy chocolates as holiday gifts. One year, his pastry chef confessed that the chocolates were pretty mediocre. So Jim dared him to make something better. Together they began making the most amazing, hand-rolled, creamy truffles. And the rest, as they say, is history.
Today, Lake Champlain Chocolates is a multi-generational family business, just like the generations of Vermont family farms where they source fresh butter, cream, maple syrup and honey. And like the generations of cacao farmers in places such as the Dominican Republic and Guatemala with whom they have direct partnerships. Today, Jim’s son and daughter, Eric and Ellen, are defining the future of Lake Champlain Chocolates by developing award-winning organic products and spearheading sustainable sourcing initiatives.
