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About AMBRE

Bean to bar,
poured slow.

AMBRE is a small chocolatier's atelier — single-origin cocoa sourced by lot, roasted in small batches, and tempered by hand into bars, truffles, drinking chocolate and gift boxes. No mystery blends, no shortcuts on the temper.

African farmer drying cocoa beans in a greenhouse
Cacao products on a chopping board with cacao beans
Woman holding a spoon of melted chocolate

01

Origin over blend

Every bar names its bean — Ecuador, Ghana, Venezuela, Madagascar. When we do blend, we say so. No mystery cocoa hiding behind a house name.

02

Tempered, not just melted

Every batch goes through a full temper cycle by hand — heat, cool, reheat — so the snap and the shine are structural, not cosmetic.

03

Honest by default

The cart is real, the checkout total is real math, and the confirmation says plainly that no order is placed. Nothing here pretends to be a backend it isn't.

How the site works

This storefront runs entirely in your browser: no backend, no API calls. Adding to cart and placing an order update local state directly, persisted to this browser's localStorage — instant, and honestly labelled as a demo. Nothing is ever charged and no order is transmitted anywhere.

Every photograph on the site is real, self-hosted chocolate photography — bars, truffles, cocoa beans, gift boxes — converted to WebP at build time with explicit dimensions, so nothing shifts as the page loads and nothing is fetched from a third-party host at runtime.

The filter engine

Every field below is declared once, in one data file, and the shop keeps working:

  • cocoa

    Cocoa

    Milk · Dark 55–70% · Dark 70%+ · White · Ruby

  • origin

    Origin

    Ecuador · Ghana · Venezuela · Madagascar · Blend

  • dietary

    Dietary

    Vegan · Sugar-Free · Dairy-Free · None

  • format

    Format

    Bar · Gift Box · Truffles · Drinking

  • occasion

    Occasion

    Everyday · Gift · Seasonal

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