It’s really happening. The lease is signed. The contractors are hired. The Chocolate will open the first week in December! Woooot!

Searching for a storefront has been a true labor of love. We’d seen oodles of places and gone back and forth on our ideal location. And just when we thought our expectations were too high, we found it! 212 S. State in Orem. It’s a historic home (circa 1909) that we’re renovating into our beloved dessert cafe. The character, the charm, and the design elements of the house itself are completely perfect. I mean c’mon, there’s a little round window in one of the rooms that I want to hug every time I see it.

The front porch. We’re painting it chocolate brown, of course.

This is our only demolition (ish) project. We’re adding this doorway to connect 2 rooms so we

have more continuous bakery space.

Helpers deserve free cupcakes for life!

Nephew Nash (and Mom in the background) flexes his painting muscles. Thanks dude!

And on this kind of timeline, child labor laws totally don’t count. We’ll take all the illegal help we can get. :)