You can now find some of the prettiest chocolates in Missouri at a storefront in a Blue Springs strip mall.Â
Bliss Chocolatier is now open in Blue Springs, Missouri, serving gourmet bonbons, malt balls, sponge toffee and more. The business is owned by chocolate-maker Jessica Washburn and her mom, Pat Jarstad.
Washburn only began making chocolate a few years ago. She originally went to college for chemistry, but she ended up graduating with a degree in art history. While living in upstate New York, she made a living as a professional photographer, but when her family moved to the Kansas City area, she took a step back to help her kids settle into the Midwest.Â
By Bill Althaus Bill.althaus@examiner.net
When Jessica Washburn was searching for a name for her new artisan chocolate store in Blue Springs, she wanted something simple, yet something patrons would remember.
That’s when she found bliss – perfect happiness, contentment, joy – in the world of chocolate. She teamed up with her mother, Pat Jarstad, to open Bliss Chocolatier last month and has found it combines the best of three things she loves – art, science and food.
“The candy is pretty and it tastes good,” said 6-year-old Nora Turnbush, who was visiting Bliss along with her brother John, sister Sophia and mother Jodi.