Thank you for visiting Sweet Goddess Chocolates online.  Sweet Goddess Chocolates takes great pride in crafting some of the finest chocolates and confections that can be found.  Once you experience our chocolates, you'll understand how good ingredients make all the difference. 

Kathy Kohout started Sweet Goddess Chocolates as a company in 1999.  Her love affair with good chocolates started long before that.  As a little girl, her mother loved to cook and taught her the importance of good quality ingredients.  "Growing up, we didn't have much, but we always had good food and lots of it;" she says.  She often would accompany her mother to local chocolate shops to get treats for different holidays.  "I remember one shop in Racine, WI that made the most beautiful candy canes.  My mom would pick out all of the candy for Christmas and I would sit and be mesmerized watching them make candy canes."  As she got older, she learned to appreciate the qualities of fine, European chocolates.  "I always loved the more expensive European chocolates I could find in Chicago.  I just never could afford to buy them all the time."

Then one day when Kathy was 15, she was shopping with her mom.  She went into a book store and found a candy making cookbook on clearance.  It was $4.98 and she had just enough money to buy it.  When she met up with her mom carrying a package, naturally her mom asked her what she bought.  When she showed her, her mom said; "I don't know what you wasted your money for on that.  You'll never use it."  That didn't discourage Kathy.  One cold winter day, she pulled that cookbook out and decided to make caramels.  "They didn't turn out half bad and I thought I could make other things too;" she remembered.  She learned about tempering chocolate by hand and making fondant centers all from this clearance cookbook.  Most importantly, she learned that she really liked to make candy.

During college years, Kathy forgot about her little hobby until she needed a gift for someone.  She thought about baking cookies or a cake for this person and then remembered her candy.  She dug out her old cookbook and made a batch of turtles.  This time, she bought more expensive Belgian chocolate and noticed what a huge difference it made in the taste of a simple candy like turtles.  A few months later, she got a small tempering machine for her birthday.  "I still have that little machine and I sometimes even use it if I need a really small amount of chocolate."  She expanded her repertoire and started teaching herself how to make truffles.  From there, there were no bounds to the varieties and types of candy and confections she learned to make.

In 1998, she began selling candy at small local craft fairs.  Every year she expands her business a little more with new products and new places to sell her confections.  All of her candy is made using the finest ingredients and never any preservatives or trans fats.  She never skimps on ingredients such as nuts or uses extenders.  She continues to make candy the way she remembers it used to be made as a small girl only using premium European chocolate.  Someday she hopes to have her own retail shop with good old fashioned candy.  For now, you can find Kathy and her Sweet Goddess Chocolates at the places on the Locations and Events page.