Category: The Chocolate Belles News

We are extremely excited to let our readers, visitors and clients know that on March 17, 2010 Chocolate Belles launched our own YouTube channel. We plan to use YouTube to publish some of the videos taken during our cake decorating and candy making classes. We will limit the videos to only the ones containing the most important portions of our classes. And yes we start small. Very small! Our first video is only 26 seconds in length. It shows what are students were about to learn during the first night of the Introduction to Fondant Cake Decorating Course on March 17, 2010. More videos are on the way! If you are subscribing to our blog RSS feed or e-mail, you may need to visit our website to see the video bellow.

If you are an iPhone, Android, BlackBerry or other smartphone user you will like today’s news! We have updated our blog so your visits from these devices will be more enjoyable!

In the past when a cell phone user would visit The Chocolate Belles Blog, he or she would immediately be faced with two major issues. It would take forever for pages from our blog to load, and, due to the small screens most phones have, navigating our blog would have been a complete nightmare.

Today that has changed forever! We are still trying to fine-tune so everything runs smoothly for the visitors who come to our website using their smart-phones. But our websites should be already able to recognize browsers from iPhone, iPode, BlackBerry and several other phones. If you find that your phone is not receiving the mobile version of our blog, please be patient as we will try to accommodate more smart-phones in the future. Of course you can help us out and tell us what kind of phone you use to visit our blog, should you experience any problems with our blog.

The mobile version is available only on our blog and not on our online shop, but we will be working on it as well.

Feb. 2, 2010 Ultimate Embellished Chocolate Covered Strawberry Class

Sign up NOW for our wonderful Ultimate Embellished Strawberry Class!  Class is Tues. Feb. 2, 2010 at 6:30 PM.  All supplies are included.  Make mouth watering chocolate covered strawberries like: almond berries, Bride & Groom Berries, Toffee berries and many many more.  You will leave with huge box filled with your creations!  $45.00 (includes everything).  Just in time to learn how to make your loved ones Valentine’s gift.

Come Join Our Creative Pretzel Class!

Our new Creative Pretzel Class is Saturday 23, 2010 at 2:00 PM.  This is a 1 day class and lasts about 2 hours.  $45.00 including supplies.  Learn how to create many different embellished pretzels including stuffed pretzels, pretzel buddies,  etc.  Limited seating so sign up NOW!

Print out this coupon and bring it in and receive 10% off your candy making and cake decorating supplies.  Excludes 50 lb. cases!

10% off candy and cake supplies

In the past shoppers at Chocolate Belles were required to create an account with us in order to purchase our products. We still strongly encourage to do so, because it gives you an opportunity not only to track your orders but to have multiple shipping addresses associated with your account as well as have an opportunity to subscribe to our newsletter:

However during the last few days some updates where made to our shopping cart and now visitors can check out as guest on our website. What this means that in order to purchase our products you are no longer required to register an account with Chocolate Belles:

While we encourage our clients to create accounts when shopping with us online, there are times however that guest checkout might be necessary. For example if you use computer that does not belong to you while shopping with us and you do not want to let that computer to remember your account credentials by an accident.

You can always retrieve your account information should you forget your password by using following form.

As a part of the recent website overhaul we have also created profiles on two well known social networking websites: Twitter and Facebook. If you are a member of these networks, please add us to your friends. You can find us as follows: Chocolate Belles on Twitter and Chocolate Belles on Facebook.

Don’t forget to share our Twitter and Facebook pages with your friends!

As some one who has been involved in setting the original website for Ann, Laurie and Debbie, and now as Internet Marketing Director I was privileged to have access to many candy making and cake decorating classes. Needless to say, I was always inspired by every one of them… Too bad I do not bake!

One of the most surprising things of course usually happens at the end of the class. Under expert guidance of Ann and Debbie, the students end up with some truly exquisite creations. Take for example the pictures from one of the fondant decorating classes:

I can only begin to imagine how many more people, who visit The Chocolate Belles website each day, are inspired by pictures of cakes posted by Ann in the past.

If you are one of those who have been inspired, either by attending one of the classes at The Chocolate Belles or by visiting our website- we would love to hear from you! In fact we have implemented a special page, where you can upload the picture of your cake and share with our readers recipe or challenges you were faced with while making the cake.

Our regular visitors and subscribers have noticed few changes on our website. Today I would like to take this opportunity and outline the changes that took place. One of the major improvement was made in attempt to separate our blog from the shopping cart of our website while preserving the look and feel of our website.

On our blog we will continue to showcase the cakes we make and share ideas with our readers about cake decorating and candy making. While our shopping cart is the place where our visitors can purchase cake decorating and candy making supplies.

No matter where do you find yourself on our website, the top navigation menu is designed to bring you to your desired destination. If you find yourself for example in shopping part of our website, yet would like to see our blog all you need to do is to click on the link “Our Blog” (see the picture bellow) to navigate there:

Likewise if you find yourself reading our blog but would rather be view the products on our online shop, number of the links in the top navigation can bring you to the desired part of our shopping cart:

Whether you are one of our regular visitors or you are here on our website for the first time, we hope you find our website useful and easy to use. As always we appreciate your visit and hope you can stop by again in the future. Until next time- Happy Baking and Candy Making!

Vlad Zablotskyy - Our Internet Marketing Director

Since the start of our website, Vlad Zablotskyy, was instrumental in setting up our website and implementing shopping cart which allowed our visitors shop for candy making and cake decorating supplies right here on our website.

We are excited to announce that Vlad Zablotskyy will represent The Chocolate Belles in our online marketing efforts and initiatives.

Vlad has over 5 years of experience in internet marketing and has spent most of that time as an active affiliate marketer. He has also help the number of small businesses in NJ to promote their products and services on the internet.

We would like to take this opportunity and to introduce Vlad to our regular readers and subscribers. We look forward to work with Vlad on improving our website and look forward to his advise and guidance.

Vlad will also be contributing to our blog on regular basis and will oversee the technical side of our website.