Sarabeth “Yeli” Marshall is the owner and CCO (Chief Chocolate Office) of Yelibelly Chocolates where their tagline is “Let’s get chocolate wasted!”
Yeli has her Masters Degree in Nutrition and Food Science and worked in that field for 14 years. After that she found her way into chocolate and hasn’t looked back. They specialize in Corporate and Wedding clients, but you too can order your own boxes of Yelibelly Chocolate through the website. (https://www.yelibelly.com) Not only that, but you can take tasting and pairing classes. We recommend using promo code CLM10 to get 10% off of your order.
They like to have fun. The logo, the tagline, and the people are all about having fun which is what you should do when you are making chocolate. Yeli enjoys talking about and teaching about chocolate. It is her passion and her fun.
You think you have had good chocolate? Order some Yelibelly Chocolate and find out for yourself!
Yelibelly can ship chocolate anywhere in the US. They take great care to pack their products so that they arrive at your destination in the same condition as it was when it left the facility.
Some may wonder why Cigars Liquor And More is getting together with a great chocolate company? Well they put whiskey in their chocolate, of course! As Yeli said “Don’t spend a dollar for chocolate when your going to spend $100 on a bottle”. You don’t want to have a good whiskey be melded with a crap chocolate. Let me tell ya, YeliBelly Chocolates, are nothing but good. Beautiful to look at and pleasing to the palette.
Along the theme of melding chocolate and liquor, they have teamed with Dalmore Scotch. Dalmore wanted a new way of sharing their liquor with their customers and heard that Yelibelly has some great infused chocolates and reached out to Yeli. That brings us to the chocolates infused with Dalmore Scotch. Yelibelly is one of only two companies that are licensed to use the Dalmore logo. If you get a Dalmore logo chocolate, then you have already had Yelibelly. Taking chocolates that bring out the flavors of the liquor is their goal. With a large selection of chocolates grown throughout the world, there are so many means of pairing. Single origin chocolates has their own flavor profiles and this is what is used to pair with any liquor. The same process was used to determine what to pair with the Delmore Scotch.
We do a little class of learning how to pair liquor and chocolate together. Once you learn how to enjoy the combination of the flavors, a whole new world of palett pleasing flavors come to life. The secret is to let the chocolate melt in your mouth. You can take a bite, but you have to let it melt in your mouth. At the start of the lessons Yeli goes easy on us and walks us through how to taste the chocolate disk. Of the several we had, they had different flavors and it was just as amazing tasting that as it is tasting flavors in cigars and liquor. Some had toffy notes, others had smokey notes. Who knew you could get so much from gourmet chocolate.
Learning the sip, melt, sip technic is the way to do it. It can smooth out the liquor, but you don’t really get the chocolate, but an enhancement of the flavors of the liquor. The Whiskey Disks are listed to complement they type of liquor you have.
You can tell from the pictures that there are a variety products to choose from.
There are many different percentages of Cacao. The higher the percentage, the longer it takes to melt, the more bitter-sweet it will be.
Yeli has a patent on a product called “Cocoacino”. It is a chocolate disk designed to go in with your cappuccino, mocha, hot chocolate or coffee. Yeli noticed that folks were putting in the fake chocolate syrup or cocoa powder into the cups. This are Belguim disk of gourmet chocolate that does not add grit or a waxy flavor to your cappuccino or coffee. These disks can be screen printed with chocolate with any pattern you want. They can match Pantone colors. If you are adding fake syrup or power, then go to yelibelly.com and get some of these.
Yelibelly Chocolates offers classes. You can have your own private class or do a public class. You get a box delivered to you and join the Zoom class that is hands on and you learn how to make French Truffles, Bon Bons, and all kinds of things. After everything clears up, you can do it with all the Chocolatiers. These boxes are big enough for everyone in the house to get their hands into it.
There are also tasting classes. They have a world tour of chocolate. They teach you “how to taste chocolates from around the world and why one from Madagascar tastes different than one from Venezuela” Yeli tells us.
Then there are pairing classes where you learn how to properly taste not only the spirit, but also the chocolate. They always work with a specialists such as someone from Dalmore so you get someone who can teach you how to taste those spirits.
When you taste these products you will find out this is Harry & David quality.
Yelibelly can take care of your Corporate Gift needs. Don’t leave your employees out in the cold. Instead give them some Yelibelly Chocolate Gifts!
We talked momentarily about SharkTank. Yeli presented the Cocoacino product specifically. She could not tell us much due to contractual obligations, but when they start filming again, we hope she is able to move on to present the products directly to the Sharks. :). Good luck Yeli and everyone at Yelibelly Chocolates.
Yeli brought us an exclusive in the Whiskey Disks. They are hoping to launch the Whiskey Disks 01 September 2020. We loved having Yeli over and love her products. You will too. Be sure to your Promo Code: CLM10 to get 10% off of your order.
