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Bespoke Chocolates Opens on Extra Place

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<p>Chocolate and caramel filled truffles with sea salt and crunchy pretzel bits.</p>

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<p>A shelf of spices used in truffles and fillings. </p>

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<p>Rachel Zoe Insler in her prep kitchen, which takes up most of the Bespoke Chocolate’s 280 square feet. The shop opened yesterday on Extra Place. </p>

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<p>Left: Bespoke chocolate sells a house-made version of Nutella: a chocolate jam with ground hazelnuts. Right: In the production area, coffee is mixed into ganache. </p>

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<p>Chocolate truffles from <a href="http://www.bespokechocolates.com">Bespoke Chocolates</a>. Insler and her fiancé hauled this wooden bar beneath them from a shop in Southern Connecticut, and did most work on the store themselves.</p>

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<p>More truffles. </p>

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