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How are Wild Patch Chocolates different from the rest? We are a boutique company, we use traditional methods - tempering, moulding, filling our chocolates all by hand. Our fillings have to be tasted to be believed! Each filling is made to a special recipe by us, using the best quality ingredients - we guarantee you'll taste the difference! All our chocolates are GLUTEN-FREE, no preservatives, no artificial flavouring and made from premium Belgian chocolate. Made fresh to be eaten fresh.

iStock_000003416502XSmallIf you're looking for something elegant and exclusive for your wedding, Wild Patch Chocolates produces fabulous wedding bombonieres or wedding favors, as well as chocolate-decorated wedding cakes. Or perhaps a platter of our hand-crafted Belgian chocolates to wow your guests.  We also produce unique chocolate gifts for corporate events, business functions or as end of year gifts to your staff or customers - and it's not too early to book - you can call us to discuss your needs.

You can order chocolates online from anywhere in the world (the most remote to date is Antarctica!) to anywhere in Australia - overnight or next day delivery to most locations. Condition guaranteed. Whether it's gourmet chocolate gift baskets, chocolate wedding favors, corporate gifts or just something to spoil yourself - all our Belgian chocolates are beautifully gift boxed, lavishly wrapped, with gift tag (add your message under 'Comments' when you check out from our online shop).

If you've been inspired by what you've seen here and want to learn more, we teach chocolate making in our chocolate courses - half-day and full-day classes in the beautiful Dandenong Ranges, Victoria - whether you're a beginner or have some experience of chocolate making. And if you want to get your own group of friends together (minimum 3), for a special occasion or just to learn something new together, we'll organise a course just for you!

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Mother's Day Flowers in Chocolate! This Mother's Day give your mother flowers she can eat!

Fabulous chocolates with mouth-watering fillings, hand-dipped and decorated. As with all our chocolates, they are GLUTEN-FREE, no preservatives, no artificial flavouring and made from premium Belgian chocolate.

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About Wild Patch Chocolates

Belgian chocolate that is poured, shaped, drizzled over freshly made fillings. No preservatives, no artificial flavours.      Wild Patch Chocolates has grown from a passionate hobby to an established boutique chocolate company. Located in Olinda, in the heart of the Dandenong Ranges, beautiful artisan chocolates are created from Belgian chocolate (Callebaut) with only the finest ingredients used in our mouth-watering fillings. Made fresh to be eaten fresh.

We send chocolates, gourmet chocolate gift baskets, and chocolate wedding favors anywhere in Australia and have become known for our creative chocolate making and chocolate courses. 

First Steps

The movie ‘Chocolat’? Johnny Depp, Juliette Binoche… pouring chocolate onto a marble table, infusing cream with exotic flavours?

That’s what started our passion for Belgian chocolate making that has now become Wild Patch Chocolates. We send chocolates, take orders for chocolates online and teach others in our chocolate courses.

First Principles

Start with the finest ingredients, learn traditional methods from the experts, and taste food from around the world. Be passionate and a bit of a perfectionist - and when you've mastered that, you'll have to share it ... because you can't eat it all yourself!

Leave Things Out

We intentionally leave out all artificial flavours and preservatives. Our Belgian chocolates are all GLUTEN FREE. So when you get chocolate gift baskets, wedding chocolates, Easter or Christmas chocolates, you'll be getting fine ingredients without any additives.

Temper The Chocolate

Tempering chocolate is the process that gives Belgian chocolate its smooth mouth feel, beautiful shiney appearance and allows it to slip out of its mould, shrinking as it cools. There are several ways of tempering chocolate which we teach in our chocolate classes. Of course most other commercial chocolate makers use tempering machines to automate the whole process; however, at Wild Patch we only use traditional methods and temper all our chocolate by hand. Here are two of the most common ways of tempering chocolate. The Tabliering Method requires the couverture to be melted to 45°C. Two-thirds of this is poured onto a marble or granite slab and stirred with a spatula, allowing it to cool evenly. When it has cooled to around 27°C, it is poured back into the tank and mixed with the remaining one-third melted couverture. This allows the chocolate to reach its working temperature of 29-31°C (28-29°C for white chocolate, 29-30°C for milk chocolate, and 30-31°C for dark chocolate). The Seeding Method used unmelted chocolate buds to drop the temperature of the melted chocolate and to 'seed' it with the correct crystals. Melt the couverture to 45°C, then add one-third of this amount in unmelted buds and stir. Test the temper by dipping the edge of a plastic scraper into the chocolate and leaving it on the bench to dry. The chocolate should set within a few minutes and have an even colour, without visible oily streaks (if there are streaks, this means the chocolate was too hot). You will learn to recognise the temperature of chocolate from its look (its viscosity or fluidity) and feel (touch a spoon or paddle pop stick into the chocolate and place against your lower lip). Tempering chocolate by hand, however, can be a tricky business - best learnt from a professional. So come to one of our chocolate courses and learn chocolate making from our professional chocolatier (see Courses).

Devise Exquisite Fillings

Exquisite fillings are a whole other production which we teach in our chocolate courses (see Chocolate Making: Pralines). There are some great books around with recipes for basic ganache (generally made with cream, chocolate, glucose or inverted sugar and flavouring). Start with a recipe, try it out, modify it and apply the principles to other ingredients. You will only be limited by your imagination (and the success of your flavour combinations!). At Wild Patch Chocolates, we use fruit purees and concentrated extracts such as passionfruit, blood orange, wild strawberry and many other equisite ingredients. They are heated and poured over the chocolate to give the explosions of flavour our chocolates are known for (try our Passionfruit, Lime Jelly and Coconut, Strawberry and Balsamic Vinegar). Other complex flavours come from caramelising sugar in copper pots, steeping dried lavender flowers or rose petals in cream, or adding just the right amount of chilli oil to produce subtle ganache that is piped into chocolate shells or made into truffle balls (try our Smooth Caramel, Cappucino Cups and Chilli Chai). When you order our gourmet chocolate boxes, you get a variety of all the fabulous fillings in our Belgian chocolates for that season. So you'll have to come back for more to see what we've created next.

Select Only The Best

The principles for great chocolate making are common to all great food - start with the finest ingredients, learn traditional methods from the experts, and taste food from around the world. Be passionate (and a bit of a perfectionist) and when you’ve mastered that, you’ll have to share it … because you can’t eat it all yourself! After learning chocolate making and visiting chocolatiers all over the world, we now send chocolates all over Australia (and some of our customers send chocolates on to friends and family overseas - just to show them how well we make Belgian chocolates here in Australia!)

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