If Only Life Were Like This Box of Chocolates
Stick With Me Sweets’ hand-painted bonbons are beautiful, but it’s what’s inside that really wows
Photographer: Stephen Lewis for Bloomberg Businessweek
The only drawback about getting a box of chocolates—even if it’s a very expensive, pretty box—is that once it’s opened, you’re often looking at a grid of uninspiring shapes and colors. Not so with the striking confections at Stick With Me Sweets, a small-batch chocolatier in New York’s Nolita neighborhood. Founder Susanna Yoon conceives of each one as a standalone dessert, with flavors such as matcha green tea and dulce de leche, and tops them with a glossy, hand-painted finish so they look as good as they taste.
● One of the earliest colorful confectioners was Jacques Genin, who’s been selling hand-painted chocolates at his Paris shop—designed like a chic cosmetics store—for close to a decade. A nine-piece box is $14.