Category: Chocolate Belles News

Chocolate Belles is excited to announce a new payment method available to our online shoppers. Since the time we launched our online store we have chosen PayPal to be our primary payment processor for our online store. The final phase of the purchase, however, always took place on PayPal’s website. This cause some inconvenience to large number of our clients. Last Wednesday we have upgraded our PayPal account which allows our clients who may not have PayPal accounts to use their credit or debit cards on our website:

The communication between Chocolate Belles website, and PayPal takes place over an encrypted connection, using the industry’s high standard encryption methods to insure the safety of your information.

We hope that this new payment will streamline the shopping process and will improve your overall shopping experience with Chocolate Belles.

I would like to thank our students Nicole, Adrianne, Lauren, Toni, Cathryn and Bonnie Sue for a very successful Course One Cake Decorating.

The Chocolate Belles is offering cake decorating class #2 starting June 2, 2010 – click here to register for the class, enter coupon flower to get $5 off the price for the class.

Out of over than 30 years in business, The Chocolate Belles has only began to build a presence on the Internet in November of 2007. In fact, it was rather towards the end of 2008 that our website began to take shape and resemble what you see now.

We have come a long way since those humble beginnings. We now successfully operate a network of websites that help us to better serve our clients and stay connected with them. Today we would like to present you with the different ways you can stay connected with us- The Chocolate Belles Network.

The Chocolate Belles Immediate Network

The Chocolate Belles immediate network consists of a group of websites directly operated and owned by us by us.

The Chocolate Belles Online Store

Our online store has gone through a recent major upgrade, but the things should be familiar to our clients. This part of the website allows visitors to our website to purchase the products online. While we have more than 150 different products in our online store, it is only a small fraction of all the products we carry in our store. We are adding new products to our online store every day – if there was something you could not find yesterday- there is good chance you might find it today!

The Chocolate Belles Blog

This how our website has started to begin with! We will continue to keep and update our blog on regular basis, sharing tips about cake decorating and candy making, showcase the work of our students.

If you are interested about future updates to our blog, you can subscribe via e-mail to be notified whenever we publish something new on our blog.

The Chocolate Belles TV – aka “video blog”

This on of the latest additions to our website. Recently we began to make videos to capture portions of our classes as well as to demonstrate some of the products we carry.

This part of the website will feature our videos which we publish to our YouTube and Viddler channels. You can also subscribe to be notified via e-mail whenever we publish new videos.

Chocolate Belles Extended Network

In addition to own the above listed websites Chocolate Belles is using other websites to promote our products and services and to communicate with our fan base. So here are few places where you can find us.

The Chocolate Belles Fan Page On Facebook

Our Facebook page is a good way to stay in touch and on top of all important news about Chocolate Belles.

If you are a Facebook user, please visit our page and and it to your favorites.

The Chocolate Belles Online Video Channels.

We have chosen to host our web videos on two websites: YouTube and Viddler. If you are active user of either websites we would love if you can subscribe to our videos. We have received great feedback from our friends and customers about the videos we made so far, and we are very excited to continue to make videos in the future. These videos will also be published on our video blog, but if you prefer you can subscribe to our videos on YouTube and Viddler.

The Chocolate Belles Twitter

Yes, you can fin us there also! Feel free to follow us on twitter if that is your preferred Twitter over other ways to keep in touch with what is happening at The Chocolate Belles. Please do not expect us to answer the private messages on Twitter, as we rarely use that feature – the best way to communicate with us is our website just use out contact form.

The Chocolate Belles Friendfeed

Danger zone! Only super-addicted-fans should follow us on Friendfeed. It’s by far the most comprehensive method to stay on top of all news from The Chocolate Belles- it combines our blog, our video blog, our tweets, our YouTube videos, our Friendfeed updates.

So what do you think about our network? Did you know we are “present” on the above mentioned websites? What surprised you the most? Would you like to see our “presence” on other similar websites?

The time flies so fast! Here we are already in May. Many of our customers know that in May, June, July and August the Chocolate Belles has different opening hours. This is just a reminder that our Summer hours will be in effect starting today May 1st. Our summer hours are in effect until September 1st:

Monday – Closed (until September 1st)
Tue-Fri 10AM-6PM
Sat 10AM-5PM
Sunday- Closed
For driving directions to our store click here.

We are very excited to introduce a new feature on our website. Now you can register for our cake decorating and candy making classes from home (click here to see our upcoming classes). The goal of this article is to provide you with a step by step guide on how to register for a desired class.

How To Find And Register For The Desired Cake Decorating or Candy Making Class?

The following page contains our upcoming classes. Once there, you have several options on how to navigate the calendar. We recommend using the “months” navigation located just bellow our logo:

The days on which there are scheduled classes are shown in bold:

If you click on the day in bold, the calendar to the right will change to a daily view:

You can then hover with your mouse over the class and a short description of the class will appear:

To register for the class click on the desired class and the following window will appear:

Click “Book Now” button for the following window to appear where you can login or register if you are the first time user:

Once you enter your login information (or if you are a new user once you register) you will be redirected to a secure page on PayPla where you can pay for the class. If you do not have the PayPal account you still can pay with your credit card- see the image bellow (click on it to see it in full size):

You can always call us if you have any problems with the above described process.

Great job of making your panoramic sugar eggs Debbie, Dawn, Lisa, Jenn Nicole Matthew, Toni

and Cathryn!  Thanks for a wonderful class!