- Dessert is a great place to start.

Producer Teresa Litschke shows us how a European style chocolate created in Florida has now landed in Mooresville.

Now, if it's made with chocolate or covered in chocolate, you'll find it at Peter Brooke Chocolatier.

(upbeat music) - The history of this Peterbrooke Chocolatier started in January of 2025.

And we were the first Peterbrooke in the Carolinas and the only Peterbrooke in the Carolinas.

And we're bringing that great goodness that started in Jacksonville over 40 years ago to this community here in the Lake Norman area.

- And actually my husband and I in college, we traveled in Europe together as part of a study abroad.

So I sampled a lot of chocolate there and it just had that very smooth, creamy taste.

And that was the same thing that I tasted with the Peterbrooke chocolate.

- Casting their former careers aside, the Leslies purchased a Peterbrooke franchise and became chocolatiers.

- Well, they have everything that you would need as far as chocolates.

They have caramels, they have the chocolate covered potato chips, they have the Oreos, the marshmallows, they have gifts, they have gelato, pretty much whatever you could think of.

- And it all starts with that special chocolate.

- Peterbrooke has a European blended chocolate that is very difficult to find in the United States because it's a true couverture chocolate.

- And so then I learned later that that had to do with the amount of cocoa butter in the chocolate.

- Which is a much higher percentage than standard chocolate.

- Our chocolate doesn't have oils or additives to it.

So when we make all the great things, you can probably see behind me like pretzels and Oreos and dip stuff or nuts, you don't get any aftertaste, no waxiness, just the pure indulgence of the chocolate.

And it's pretty fabulous.

- I thought it was excellent.

I got the chocolate covered potato chips, which are my favorite.

I love the salt with the chocolate, the salt and the sweet together.

- Yeah, we do a lot of potato chips.

Those are hand dipped.

It's like a double potato chip.

- And that quality is available no matter the type of chocolate you prefer.

- So we always have milk chocolate, dark chocolate, making it on site every day, our signature blends.

But we're also hand tempering and small batching white chocolate, 72% dark chocolate, 85% dark chocolate.

- You name it, they cover it with all that chocolatey goodness.

- Well, our chocolate covered popcorn is always one of the big favorites for everybody.

And that's an item that we not only sell in six ounce or 12 ounce type packages, we also put it inside chocolate items every season.

So we'll make pumpkins with chocolate covered popcorn in 'em.

We'll make footballs.

- So all you do is you just break it open like that and you've got all your chocolate covered popcorn there to eat and the shell itself is good too, I promise.

- Add to that chocolate covered pretzels, toffee, gummy worms, they even make chocolate pizza.

- What most people do is they put it in the oven for five minutes at 350 and you have a home fondue kit.

- And a wide assortment of truffles.

- We have everything from key lime to caramel, to coconut, to double dark ganache.

- It's a double dark ganache inside.

- Dark on dark.

So the caramel apples that you see in the truffle case over there, we make all kinds of caramel apples, like Oreo blend, turtle.

- You'll even find freshly made Dubai bars.

- The Dubai chocolate bar has a pistachio cream ganache with a katifi, which is a shredded phyllo dough that's crunchy on the inside, with a little bit of tahini, which is a sesame nut butter.

And it makes these beautiful bars that have gone viral online because they look like that on the inside.

- They also serve another European treat, gelato.

- It's actually lower fat, but it has a higher dairy content to it.

So that's what makes it very creamy.

We also carry a couple sorbetos 'cause we do have some dairy-free people.

- So dietary restrictions are no problem.

They have chocolates that are sugar-free, nut-free, even gluten-free, with baskets perfect for any occasion.

- Chocolate is like the perfect gift.

- And it's fun.

The Leslie's hope to introduce Peterbrick Chocolate to the masses with events that feature their chocolate way of life.

- We can do a 45 minute event up to a two or three hour event.

We can do full chocolate dipping, making, almost all of our events, the kids will leave with a whole bag of items that they made on site.

And we're building little addicted chocolatiers.

(upbeat music) - Peterbrooke Chocolatier is located in Mooresville near Lake Norman at 356 Morrison Plantation Parkway, Suite B3.

They're open every day except Mondays.

For complete hours and more information about their chocolates, give them a call at 980-435-5600 or visit them online at peterbrooke.com.