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Our finely grated baking chocolate is specially crafted to melt with ease. Replace with powdered chocolate 1:1 in any of your favorite recipes.
Peruse through our curated list of free educational resources from our Historic Site Partners. There’s something for everyone young and old.
Applications for the 2027 Forrest E. Mars, Jr. Chocolate History Grant will be accepted through October 23, 2026.
Justin Cherry is the resident baker of George Washington’s Mount Vernon in Virginia and Historic Camden in South Carolina, where he develops educational programming surrounding eighteenth-century baking. To further his studies on this subject, Mr. Cherry received a research fellowship at the Presidential Library of George Washington at Mount Vernon in 2019, and the Thomas Jay McCahill III Fellowship of the Society of the Cincinnati in the State of New Hampshire in 2024. Recently in 2025, Justin received a Fellowship from the American Philosophical Society/Swan Historical Foundation.
Mr. Cherry is also the owner of Half Crown Bakehouse, a historical organization that travels the country and demonstrates authentic eighteenth-century baking, and was the first American baker to become a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Bakers in London in November 2023. Justin resides in South Carolina with his wife Michaela and daughter Alexandra.
