What happens when a local pastry chef begins dabbling in chocolate making? When he’s married to another pastry chef, it creates a perfect blend of sweetness called Chocofin Chocolatier, a unique Fountain Hills confectionery offering handmade chocolates, freshly baked cakes and pies, and regionally sourced ice cream.

You’ll find Chocofin on the corner of Palisades Boulevard and La Montana Drive in the UMB bank building, but that’s not where it all started.

Owners Louis and Denise Mirabella worked in some of Arizona’s finest resorts. Louis had been studying chocolate making for a long time.  When he realized the resorts were buying chocolates abroad, he began selling his chocolates to them wholesale in 1998. The results were so successful, the couple opened their first retail location in Fountain Hills, Arizona in 2001.

Originally, the Mirabellas thought they’d be selling mostly wholesale, but the positive reaction they received from Fountain Hills residents through their retail sales convinced them otherwise.  In 2004 they moved to the larger location they occupy today.

They continue to make the freshest all natural small batch chocolates and scratch-made desserts.  They have developed a loyal following in Fountain Hills and throughout Arizona.