Online - September 19, 2005

Cut the Boule

Boule Online

Your love affair with chocolate is a lot like your love life in general.

As a youngster, you swooned over flavorless bonbons with unwholesome fillings in cheap yet flashy packaging. (Even a Yoohoo could send your heart aflutter.)

These days, you expect more — but, sadly, you don’t always get it.

Boule Patisserie — L.A.’s coveted bakery and chocolate shop — has just launched a new e-commerce site that’s full of high-quality handmade sweets that won’t disappoint: tasty carmargue caramels and an assortment of tea-flavored chocolates, including Bronte (Earl Grey-ish raspberry), Oscura (fragrant lapsang souchong), Jade (green tea), and Flora (passion fruit jasmine-tea pate de fruit).

In the coming weeks they will roll out candies with flavors like espresso cocoa nib, wasabi lime, ginger, curry, rose, kafir lime leaf, orange blossom, passion fruit with white chocolate, and more. Ice creams are soon to follow.

So, though romance may still let you down, you can rest assured that everything Boule provides will be sweet, satisfying, and unimaginably rich.

Just like the ideal lover.

Available online at boulela.com.