A Vermont Family Company since 1983. Vermont is more than an address for Lake Champlain Chocolates. It's home — where we live, who we are, and how we do business. It's also where we make our chocolates — right here in Burlington by the shores of Lake Champlain. And from the first truffle in 1983 to present day, Vermont has inspired us to take a craftsman’s approach to chocolate: creativity, patience, and mastery.

Our amazing team makes Lake Champlain Chocolates a great place to work! Sweet benefits include generous paid time off, paid holidays, medical insurance, free dental insurance, 401K match, company events, and lots of free chocolate! Lake Champlain Chocolates uses business as a force for good. We listen, learn, and adapt to ensure that we provide an equitable and inclusive work environment where all people experience belonging, opportunity, respect, and dignity. We seek team members who want to join us in that effort.

We are a multi-generational, family business, just like the generations of Vermont family farmers that provide us with fresh butter, cream, maple syrup, and honey. Today, Jim’s son and daughter, Eric and Ellen, are defining the future of Lake Champlain Chocolates by developing award-winning organic products and spearheading sustainable sourcing initiatives. Along the way following the Lampman family principles: Dare to do better. Always do it with Passion. And do it your way.

Like a great assortment of chocolate, each unique individual contributes something special to the quality and excellence of our product. Together our richly diverse and hard-working team, helps to build an amazing community through collaboration, innovation, honesty, respect, and enthusiasm. As passionate foodies we love what we do and the proof is in the chocolate.

Sourcing matters - because that’s how we create great-tasting chocolate. As a locally-owned, Vermont company that sources non-GMO ingredients from around the globe, we believe in improving the Lake Champlain Chocolates experience for everyone. From the cacao farmers and our customers, to every hardworking person and supplier along the way. That's why 100% of the chocolate we use is fair trade certified. This means that you can enjoy every bite of chocolate knowing that we are committed to making a positive impact on our local and global communities.

It started with a dare in 1983 in the kitchen of the Ice House Restaurant in Burlington, Vermont. Every year Jim Lampman would buy his staff fancy chocolates as holiday gifts. One year his pastry chef confessed that those chocolates were pretty mediocre. So Jim dared him to make something better. Together they began making the most amazing, hand-rolled, creamy truffles. And the rest, as they say, is history.