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Sept. 21, 2024
Valerie Gordron of Valerie Confections, through the chocolate display case.
(Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)Handmade chocolates are offered at Valerie Confections. The company has expanded exponentially and now includes chocolates, a popular line of preserves, cakes, pastries and more.
(Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)Chocolates made by Valerie Confections are dipped using a mix of fine chocolates.
(Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)Valerie Confections’ ginger snap cookies come packaged for giving.
(Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)Valerie Gordron pours out excess white chocolate from a mold to add the filling to a confection.
(Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)Lemon petits fours are dipped in white chocolate.
(Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)Lemon petits fours coated in white chocolate are topped with candied flower petals.
(Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)Matcha candies are created to top petits fours at Valerie Confections.
(Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)Beribboned chocolate bars are ready for purchase.
(Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)Stan Weightman Jr. and Valerie Gordron at the front counter of Valerie Confections in Westlake.
(Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)Valerie Gordon plans to sell a few boxes of her handmade chocolates for Mother’s Day.
(Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)
Sept. 21, 2024