Smoked Salt Bourbon Caramels

We've tried a lot of bourbon chocolates. Most of them taste like a candle that wanted to be food.

The problem isn't always the ingredient. It's the execution. When you rush the caramel, treat the chocolate as packaging, and skip the salt — you get a vague sweetness with a vague bourbon idea stapled to the label.

That's not this.

The bourbon flavor here lives underneath the caramel. Warm and round. Not sharp, not loud, not an afterthought. Then the chocolate snaps. Then the smoked salt hits.

That finish is the part people don't expect.

Hawaiian black lava salt and smoked alderwood salt together sounds like someone in a test kitchen got carried away. They did. It works. It's the reason one piece turns into six faster than you planned.

Mitchell's Fine Chocolates makes these by hand. They're not a co-packer running 40 SKUs. They're a real chocolate shop that cares about caramel the same way we care about bourbon. We told them we wanted every piece to land right. They didn't argue.