Tiny Windsor Chocolate Factory Creates a Chocolate Bunny Brigade

A chocolate Easter bunny army is being raised, recruit by delicious recruit, in the Windsor chocolate kitchen of Jeff and Susan Mall. Sitting at attention, the milk chocolate rabbits stare silently ahead on sheet pans, awaiting the candy carnage to come.

“They’re totally solid, so you can eat their ears off,” says Susan Mall, co-owner of Volo Chocolate, with a wink. Made with a pinch of cinnamon, Mexican sea salt, milk and cacao beans from the Chiapas region of Mexico, they’re more than just basket filler. These are gourmet, bean-to-bunny chocolates, each made by hand in a tiny chocolate factory where the couple roast, grind and process the cacao beans they fell in love with while working as chefs in Baja.

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