Chocolates by Mark

Chocolates by Mark opened in December of 1992.  Award winning Chocolatier, Mark A. Caffey has been adding more products ever since.  Their excellent reputation, high standards and elegant packaging have made Chocolates by Mark a recognized leader in fine confections.

Some of their clients include, Neiman Marcus, Toyota, Jaguar, Chevrolet, BMW, Mercedes Benz, Hummer Corporation, ExxonMobil, Shell Oil Company, AAA, Hyatt, The Warwick, Doubletree Hotels, Continental Airlines, American Golf, Club Corp. Aramark, The Federal Reserve Bank, The Country Music Awards and many more.

Featured in Southern Living Magazine:

"Brides and grooms serve his truffles at showers and receptions, celebrants at charity balls nibble them with hors d'oeuvres, and CEOs hand them out as gifts to clients. Visitors to spas end soothing sessions with the rich morsels, while guests in hotels find them on their pillows as one last, sweet taste before sleep. On nearly any Houston day, chilly from a "norther" or dripping with humidity, Mark gets his candies to customers' fingertips whole and fresh.

Rich Taste of Chocolate

Mark makes truffles in a dozen flavors, including Irish cream, champagne, cappuccino, mint, and butter pecan. He also produces almond butter crunch, milk almond toffee, dark peppermint patties, and chocolate crème de menthe. One of his most elegant gifts is a single truffle in a Limoge box. Mark sculpts chocolates in shapes of daisies and as butterflies with sweet, silent wings. At one ballroom wedding reception decorated like the out of doors, guests found nests with clusters of chocolate almonds as eggs. Perhaps the rich taste of truffles makes people think of money, so he often mints chocolates as coins. He rewards guests at baby showers with decorative boxes tied with pink or blue bows and filled with chocolate "gold." For bridal showers he fills small treasure chests with chocolate doubloons and scatters coins on tables like spare change.  

You might say he wrote the book on chocolate for a banquet honoring former President George Herbert Walker and First Lady Barbara Bush at Houston's Museum of Printing History. Mark created 500 4- by 5-inch books with pages of white chocolate and covers and squiggles of lines of dark chocolate.

From Oil to Chocolate

The Chocolatier closed one volume of his life and opened another when he changed careers from sweet crude to chocolate. He left a position as an accountant with an oil company and stepped into a college kitchen/classroom at Houston Community College to study as a pastry chef. 

After graduation he didn’t mind working long hours, he recalls, but just didn’t want to do it for someone else. So, while he held a full-time position for 8 years, he worked even longer hours building his own business, “out of my house, like most new companies do,” he says. Finally, he went with his chocolates full-time. He still works long hours--usually from 6:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.--but for himself.