Hauser Acquires Chocolate Lace

BETHEL — Rudi Hauser Jr, president of Hauser Chocolatier, has announced that his firm has acquired Chocolate Lace and related brands from Bray Chocolate Company.

“We have always admired the uniqueness of Chocolate Lace as a product,” Mr Hauser said. “It has great potential and is a good complement to our existing products.”

Both  companies originated in the Bethel/Danbury area.

“For years people have been coming to our store [in Bethel] to buy Chocolate Lace and we had to say that we didn’t make it,” Mr Hauser said. “Now, at last we can offer them Chocolate Lace.”

Chocolate Lace is a one-of-a-kind product made by a unique machine that drizzles caramel in lacy patterns in small sheets that are then enrobed in chocolate. Developed by Russian immigrant Eugenia Tay at the turn of the 20th Century, Chocolate Lace is still made by the same process she invented, which reflects the lacy caramel patterns she used to drizzle in the snow back in Czarist Russia, then dip into warm chocolate.

Hauser Chocolatier is a manufacturer of fine truffles and assorted chocolates, sold wholesale through its Rhode Island facility and retail at its store at 137 Greenwood Avenue and online at www.hauserchocolates.com. The company also makes dessert sauces, chocolate dessert cups, hollow chocolate shells, and seasonal specialties.