The Chocolate Behind Burry

There’s more behind our chocolate than what you see in the case. The Burry family’s chocolate-making roots stretch back decades to The Fudge Shoppe in Flemington, New Jersey, where carefully selected chocolates helped create the distinctive flavor the family became known for. When we opened Burry Chocolates in North Carolina, that tradition came with us.

Today, we continue that tradition using carefully selected Wilbur and Peters chocolates, two names with long histories in the art of chocolate making. Through generations of experience—and a few family secrets—we’ve learned that creating the chocolate we love is about more than simply choosing milk or dark. It’s about finding just the right balance of flavor, richness, and smoothness to create the taste our customers have come to know as Burry chocolate.

A Little Chocolate History

The chocolate behind Burry carries a history of its own. Wilbur Chocolate traces its roots to Philadelphia in 1865, part of a Pennsylvania chocolate-making tradition that spans more than 160 years. Peters has roots in Swiss chocolate-making history and the legacy of Daniel Peter, the Swiss chocolatier credited with developing the first commercially successful milk chocolate in the 1870s.

Today, both Wilbur and Peters are part of Cargill Cocoa & Chocolate⁠, carrying generations of chocolate-making knowledge into the chocolates still used by confectioners today.

From Cacao to Chocolate

Great chocolate begins with cacao. Cargill sources cocoa through a global network that includes some of the world’s important cocoa-growing regions—from Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana in West Africa to Ecuador and Brazil in South America, as well as Indonesia.

Through its cocoa sustainability and traceability programs, Cargill also works with farmers and cocoa-growing communities throughout its global supply chain. And while cacao may begin its journey thousands of miles away, it eventually becomes part of the chocolate we carefully craft into the confections you find right here at Burry.

Tradition That Continues to Grow

Like many businesses, we faced challenges sourcing some of the chocolates traditionally used by our family during the supply-chain disruptions of COVID. Drawing on generations of chocolate-making knowledge, we adapted while staying true to the flavor and quality that mattered most to us. What we created became something we loved—and our customers did too. Some things have evolved over the years. Others remain family secrets.