K&K Chocolade-atelier : World's smallest chocolate factory

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Chocolate artisan Maastricht, The Netherlands We give workshops: 🍫 & 🍷 🍫 & 🍵 🍫 > 👩🏼‍🍳 Cert. Chocolatier, WSET3 certified, French Wine Scholar, Italian Wine Scholar, Spanish WS, WSG Bordeaux Master-Level, Cert. Tea sommelier.

Two saucers on a granite countertop. The front saucer contains the tightly rolled leaves before brewing, while the rear saucer shows the fully opened leaves after infusion.
A heat-resistant tea glass in the shape of a wine glass is filled to the bowl with pu-erh tea, displaying a beautiful orange-brown color. Its shadow, equally beautiful in color but larger, is cast onto a white wall.
Front of our newly packaged Mergelland Carre. The sleeve, which covers most of the carré, has a terracotta-pink colour. A narrow strip of the carré remains visible at both the top and bottom.
A Maastricht carré, a square chocolate bar made with dark chocolate, star anise and buttery biscuits. Around the carré is a red band made from elephant grass, featuring the word “Maastricht” in the distinctive typeface that also serves as the city’s logo. The carré rests on stacks of the same carrés placed upside down, making the ingredient sticker on the back visible. A half red star of the city is also printed on this ingredient sticker.
One of the K’s and our dog Alba are posing in a yellow frame placed in the landscape. Written on the frame is “Souriez, la balade qui pétille” with two champagne glasses behind it. The frame is decorated with yellow, green, and pink ribbons. In the background, the hills, vineyards, and forests of the landscape around Cramant in Champagne can be seen.
The Sterreheim winery, a nineteenth-century manor farm. A few plane trees stand in front of the building, and in the foreground the rectangular metal sign bearing the name Sterreheim Wijnlandgoed is visible.
The bronze monument commemorating d’Artagnan, who was killed in battle near the Tongersepoort on 25 June 1673 during the siege of Maastricht. The statue stands in Aldenhofpark, with a footpath and a large tree in the background.
Temperature. The left half of the display of our tea machine. On the blue display, the words “brew temp” and “90 °C” can be read.
The main building of Vaeshartelt Estate, which houses a hotel and restaurant. In the foreground, part of a pink-and-white magnolia.
A drawer in a low white kitchen cabinet containing several round Pu-erh cakes, all already opened and kept in their original paper or wrapped in kraft paper. On the cabinet are a small dish and a Pu-erh knife, and part of a tea machine can also be seen.
A view of Wijngaard Slavante. Rows of vines can be seen, with in the background a wall built from marl that was once extracted from this hill.
The book of tea / Kakuzo Okakura Tea : History, terroirs varieties / Kevin Gascoyne [et al.] Tea is for everyone / Chan Sin Yan The classic of tea / Lu Yu
A wooden table with 12 small wine tasting bottles. In the background, large plants on the left and right, and in the middle a TV screen showing a floral still life.
Four tea tasting sets, with the cups filled with Assam tea. On the left, a blue saucer sits on a precision scale on which the tea has been weighed out. On the right, two corners of tea bags are visible.
The Spotify code for our playlist (with more than a hundred spot-on, catchy Christmas songs) in an orange frame. Above it, a glimpse into our conservatory room with candles, a Christmas tree, and a streetlight outside.
Two white tea cupping sets with two metal tea storage tins above them. At the bottom are two white cupping cups, both filled with orange-brown Da Hong Pao tea, the one on the right slightly darker than the one on the left.
On the stainless-steel table stands a melting pot filled with melted milk chocolate. A mould has been filled and rests on the edge of the melting pot. On the wall at the end of the table hangs a screen displaying a photo of a carré. To the left of the table stands a white refrigerator.
View of K&K Chocolade-atelier: World’s Smallest Chocolate Factory over the roof of a white car covered with yellow autumn leaves from an ash tree on Bemelerweg in Maastricht. It’s a grey day and the leaves bring colour to the scene. The fluorescent lights inside the atelier are on. To the right of the atelier stands a small acacia tree, and across Keerderstraat the white neighbour’s house is visible. On the left, our own home can be seen, attached to the atelier.
A signpost of and on the GRP de la CĂ´te des Blancs.
The courtyard of Champagne Vollereaux in Pierry, with a large wooden barrel next to a gate. Above the gate, the name and the inscription “caves – cellars” can be seen.
A Champagne vineyard in autumn near Vinay, close to Épernay in the Champagne region. The vines are at their most beautiful, dressed in shades of yellow and orange. The sky is blue on this glorious autumn day. A vine branch appears in the foreground, with more rows of vines visible in the distance.
The sign of our company, K&K Chocoladeatelier – World’s Smallest Chocolate Factory in Maastricht, at night, illuminated from above by an outdoor light. A branch of a Pinot Noir vine in the side garden meanders along the sign, which is mounted on a brick wall.
The front of K&K Chocolade-atelier on Bemelerweg in Maastricht. The logo sign is visible with the lamp above it turned off. Above the sign hangs a branch of Pinot Noir grapes, and below it a branch of a rose. To the right is the wooden front door with a small holder containing business cards for passers-by. On the glass of the door there is a “Recommended by TripAdvisor” sticker.
Two print proofs of wraparound bands for our chocolate carrés, in ten earthy colours. The paper is sustainable (unbleached and uncoated) made from elephant grass (Miscanthus) and certified pulp.
The front of World’s Smallest Chocolate Factory on Bemelerweg in Maastricht. Next to the façade stone is a branch of a Pinot Noir vine growing in the garden beside the building. Above the stone, part of the second-floor window is visible; below it, a section of the door with glass panels. Reflected in the glass are the trees on the opposite side of Bemelerweg.
The tempered white chocolate is ready. All accessories for making a tasting sample are set out: the tempering plate, a spatula, and an offset palette knife. The bowl of tempered chocolate sits nearby, smooth and glossy. A blowtorch is ready to gently reheat the chocolate if needed. Small bowls hold the ingredients: roasted unhulled sesame and freeze-dried lemon powder.
The St. Martinus logo sign at the entrance of the winery near Vijlen (about 25 kilometers east of Maastricht). The name is written in a rising italic script, and the lion, the symbol of St. Martinus, is cut out of the metal sign.
The vineyard of Wijndomein de Wijngaardsberg, facing southeast. It's a beautiful, partly cloudy spring day. In the background, the rolling hills of South Limburg and the forests surrounding the hamlet of Waterval.
Two glasses of Dolcetto di Dogliani on a standing table, with the Vinum stands in the background at Piazza Medford.
The Cortile della Maddalena is a historic courtyard in the center of Alba (Piedmont). In the courtyard, stands are set up, each offering a wide selection of wines centered around a specific grape variety or a range of different grape varieties for visitors to taste. The stands on the north side can be seen with clusters of visitors sipping their chosen wines.
The trunk of a willow tree in the foreground on the left, with vineyards in the background east of Novello.
A stone statue of a saint stands in a niche at a corner of a road that leads through the vineyards. In front of the niche is a metal lattice.
A large rectangular melting pot filled with white chocolate, biscuit, and Italian coffee, ready to be mixed and tempered. In the corner of the pot, a large spoon rests.
A long white dish with two rows of white, milk, and dark chocolate pieces, two empty glasses ready for sparkling wine, and a bottle hidden in an opaque wine bag for a true blind tasting.
The entrance features a striking rust-colored metal sign with the name Apostelhoeve and the star from Maastricht engraved into it. Behind it to the left stands an outbuilding made of marlstone and to the right a field dotted with dandelions. Further in the distance, part of the Jeker Valley can be seen.
A row of small white serving plates on a dark countertop, each holding a white, milk, or dark chocolate variety.
The sculpture garden of Château St. Gerlach. In the foreground, a statue of an elephant in various colours, with the castle and the church in the background.
The oldest part of Vineyard Sjtejneberg, near Mesch. The vineyard dates back to the 1980s.
The Bemelerberg vineyard seen from the path that runs alongside it, with the gate half open.
This is the south side of Château Neercanne, where the vineyard has been laid out alongside it, gradually ascending.
In the photo, four pieces of a square chocolate bar are visible. They are pink and contain white chocolate, strawberry, and yogurt as ingredients.
A brick house with wooden shutters and a green trim on the roof. This is K&K Chocolade-atelier: World's smallest chocolate factory in Maastricht. The bright sunlight casts shadows on the facade. Part of the image shows an interface element with the text 'You can now follow us on Bluesky' and 'We are now on Bluesky'.