Chocolate may play a special role in people’s lives today, but for Ahwatukee teen Morgan Higginbotham, it’s practically been his life for more than a year.
Yes, the Desert Vista High School junior’s days also have been booked with honors classes, cross-country and track.
But chocolate has been a near obsession as a creation and a business for Morgan, a graduate of the Ahwatukee Foothills Chamber of Commerce’s 2017 Young Entrepreneurs Academy class.
He named his company Poccette – rhymes with “pocket” – and then registered his company as an LLC, filing for trademark protection for his concoction, developing both sweet and sour cherry fillings and eventually adding a dark chocolate variety to his already established milk chocolate product line.
He priced the milk and dark chocolate Cherry Nubbs rolls at $5 apiece while a bag is $12 for milk chocolate and $14 for dark.
Though he sold only 30 during his first two appearances at the farmers market, his candy drew some raves on social media, with one poster calling it “the best cherry-filled chocolate.”
To reach the chocolatier: morganhigginbotham@poccette.com
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