VALERIE CONFECTIONS
Los Angeles · Since 2004
It started in an apartment.
In 2004, Valerie Gordon and her husband Stan Weightman Jr. began making toffee in their Los Angeles apartment — six flavors, hand-dipped, made with care. They weren't building a brand. They were making something they believed in.
Twenty years later, that same belief is at the heart of everything we do.
Valerie Confections has grown into one of the most beloved luxury chocolate and confection houses in the country — but the work is still done by hand, still made with all-natural ingredients, and still held to the same quiet standard of excellence that defined those first batches of toffee.
In 2013, Valerie and Stan brought that spirit into the neighborhood with the opening of Valerie Echo Park, a café that became a gathering place for the community almost immediately. That same year, Valerie's first cookbook, Sweet, was nominated for a James Beard Award.
In 2022, they opened a 5,000 square-foot flagship bakery and chocolate shop in Glendale — with production kitchens, a boutique, expanded shipping, and an outdoor garden — built to bring their confections to more people without compromising how they're made.
Our truffles, chocolates, petits fours, and baked goods have been featured in Vogue, O Magazine, the Food Network, and named Best Boxed Chocolates by The New York Times' Wirecutter. We're proud of every one of those moments. But what we're most proud of is simpler — every box is still tied by hand, every ribbon still chosen with intention, every expiration date still written by a person who cares.
That's why people come back.