As soon as you open a box of  Dorothy's hand-dipped chocolates, you can see and smell the difference!  Whether you purchasing Dorothy's for a chocolate gift, or smuggling them away for yourself, Dorothy's Swiss chocolate charm is unique.   

We think you'll be captivated by our gourmet chocolates, as they reflect the care that each of our candymakers puts into making them. Each hand-dipped chocolate is one of a kind -- which makes every piece and every box a tiny bit different from every other.    The difference in looking at machine made chocolate and looking at hand-dipped chocolate is like the difference between artificial and real flowers.  Both are good, but one is definitely better! 

All of the people who dip Dorothy's chocolates were trained at Dorothy's -- with the most senior people having been trained by Dorothy's herself.  Dorothy was a perfectionist, who loved to decorate and adorn her life and everyone else's with ribbons, bows, rainbows, sweets, and all things good and beautiful.  She was also a stickler for cleanliness.  Today, we strive to maintain a store and premises that Dorothy would be proud of -- and we make a product good enough to bear her name. 


We make our fine gourmet chocolates right behind the store in White Oak, Pa.  If you come to visit, you won't see a lot of machines or hear a lot of mechanical noise -- just the happy chatter of our wonderful employees who work there making chocolate.  We can't help but think that this relaxed atmosphere makes for a much better way to make confections. 

Each of our chocolate dippers works at her own piece of marble -- the marble being the only good surface for making hand dipped gourmet chocolates.  She keeps a well of chocolate warm at her place by swirling the chocolate to keep it moving, and dips the centers -- caramels -- cherries -- fudge nut -- and all the others, swiriling it just so in the chocolate and expertly topping it off with a curly cue that signals what is inside. 

We believe it takes about three years to learn how to dip chocolate very well.  That is one reason we are so pleased that our employees tend to stay at Dorothy's Candies for many years. 

We make nearly all of our own centers as well, using recipes devised by Dorothy, or Barb Popowitz, our candy chef -- who was trained by Dorothy.  Our centers are truly superb -- and are just the right match for our very special chocolate coating.