Chocolate Hedgehogs

After scouring the web for the answer to the question of who made the first chocolate hedgehogs, I came up with Purdy's Chocolates in Canada. Their website touts that the hedgehogs are often imitated but never duplicated.

Like Purdy's chocolates our Hazelnut Hedgehogs are filled with a hazelnut Gianduja. Unlike Purdy's we use a Maracaibo Criolait Venezuelan Milk Chocolate. It's undeniably one of the best milk chocolates in the world.

Anyway you look at it, Purdy's is a great company to imitate. In 1907 Richard Carmon Purdy opened his first chocolate shop on Robson Street in Vancouver. Who would have known then that today Purdy's Chocolates would be Canada's leading chocolatier  with 63 locations throughout Canada?

I can't help but think that maybe that in 100 years or so that Sweet Mona's could be touting the same accomplishments. It's a crazy dream. It's just so much fun pretending. For now we are nestled on 2nd Street in Langley on beautiful Whidbey Island making chocolates in a less than 1000 square foot manufacturing space including retail. We supply chocolates across the nation through our online presence and our retail location. It's interesting to dream of where Sweet Mona's will be when it's time to celebrate our 100th anniversary. I'd like to think we'll be like Purdy's Chocolate still focusing on creating luscious confections with the finest ingredients serving our customers with joyful faces, a lot like today, only on a larger scale.

Living the Sweet Life,
Mona Newbauer

“May the impression I leave today be the inspiration that moves mountains tomorrow.”