About Summore Chocolate | East Yorkshire Chocolatier

Our Story

Summore Chocolate was created from a love of chocolate, creativity and the belief that the best chocolate should make you feel something.

For us, chocolate has always been about more than flavour. It can celebrate a birthday, mark a milestone, say thank you, bring people together or simply turn an ordinary day into something a little more special.

Every creation we make combines flavour, craftsmanship and those thoughtful little details that make something feel genuinely personal.

 A Family Business Built Around What Matters Most

Summore Chocolate grew from something incredibly important to us — our family.

We wanted to create a business that would allow us to build our working life around home educating our children and being present as they grow.

Running a family business alongside home education certainly keeps life busy, but it also means our children get to see creativity, hard work and entrepreneurship first-hand. They even help in their own little ways along the journey.

What started in our family kitchen in East Riding of Yorkshire has grown into a business combining handcrafted chocolate, bespoke creations and chocolate experiences — while still allowing us to keep family at the heart of everything we do.

Meet Jane-Marie

I'm Jane-Marie, the chocolatier and pastry chef behind Summore Chocolate.

My love of chocolate and pastry comes from years spent working professionally within the industry, including experience in fine dining, on cruise ships and working overseas.

Over the years I've developed a real love for both the science and creativity behind chocolate — from understanding crystallisation and traditional tempering techniques to creating ganaches, caramels, hand-painted chocolates and bespoke designs.

That experience now sits at the heart of Summore Chocolate.

Whether I'm developing a new Dessert Bar, creating something bespoke for a customer or teaching someone to temper chocolate on a marble slab during one of our Chocolate Making Experiences, I love being able to share the craft behind chocolate as well as the finished result.

For me, one of the best parts of Summore Chocolate is taking the skills I've gathered throughout my career and using them to create something that is now completely our own.

Handcrafted with Skill, Care and Creativity

Everything we create at Summore Chocolate is handcrafted using Belgian chocolate and carefully chosen ingredients.

From smooth ganache-filled bars and indulgent Dessert Bars to hand-painted chocolates and bespoke creations, there is a huge amount that happens behind every finished piece.

Chocolate is tempered, moulded, filled, decorated and finished by hand, often in small batches.

That hands-on approach means we can pay attention to the things that really matter — flavour, texture, finish and those little details that make something feel special.

And because so much is handmade, no two creations will ever be completely identical.

We rather like it that way.

Chocolate Made for Life's Special Moments

Some chocolate is bought as a treat.

Some becomes part of a memory.

Summore Chocolate creates handcrafted chocolate for gifting, celebrations and those moments when something ordinary simply won't do.

But chocolate doesn't only have to be something you receive.

Through our Chocolate Making Experiences and Kids Chocolate Parties, guests can discover professional chocolate-making techniques, try traditional tempering on a marble slab and create chocolate of their own.

From birthday celebrations and milestone events to workshops and simply getting a group of people together to do something different, we love seeing chocolate become part of the occasion.

Whether you're ordering something delicious or joining us for an experience, we want you to come away with something memorable.

From Our Kitchen to You

Everything we make begins here in East Riding of Yorkshire.

We work in small batches, develop our own flavours and are constantly experimenting with new ideas — from traditional ganaches and caramels to our growing range of indulgent Dessert Bars.

Being a small independent business gives us the freedom to create, test, change and keep pushing our ideas further.

Not every experiment makes it onto the website, but that's all part of the process.

The ones that do have been tasted, tested and created with the same care we'd expect from something we were buying ourselves.

Our Purpose

Summore Chocolate is about bringing together the things we value most:

craftsmanship, creativity, family and really good chocolate.

We're proud to be building an independent family business here in East Riding of Yorkshire — one handcrafted chocolate, one new idea and one chocolate experience at a time.

There is plenty more still to come from Summore Chocolate, and we're very glad you're here to be part of it.