They have gone through nearly two tonnes of chocolate and made thousands of little Easter eggs and bunnies by hand in this Fairbairn workshop. And it is only going to get busier this weekend.
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Canberra's chocolatiers are gearing up for the maddest, busiest time of the year as they prepare for the Easter rush.
At Lindsay and Edmunds, Michelle Fahy and Peter Edmunds have got all hands on deck to make, paint, package, ship and sell their organic Fairtrade Easter chocolates. They have been planning for months.
''We think about Easter as soon as we come back from Christmas,'' Ms Fahy said. ''We've already worked out what our range is going to be and then we start producing. I'd say we've been crazy, crazy busy for the last two months.''
Across town at Koko Black, manager Haley Koo has doubled the number of floor staff and says the store's chocolatiers have been ''going crazy'' making a range of special Easter chocolates.
Koko Black expects to sell at least 3000 Easter eggs and chocolatiers have created a limited edition ''golden Easter egg'' that features a salted caramel surprise inside. This year's range includes speckled quail eggs, nesting hens, chocolate bunnies and gift boxes in pastel-coloured tins.
Lindsay and Edmunds have expanded their team, adding more than a dozen casual staff to help them cope with the Easter rush and opening pop-up stores across the city, including at the Canberra Centre and Cooleman Court in Weston Creek.
''We've had to do longer hours because we can't pack in as many people in the space so we're doing double shifts,'' Ms Fahy said. ''We've been working from 6am to 11pm and have been doing that for three weeks, four weeks.''
They have been making everything from big chocolate penguins to tiny rows of crouching Easter bunnies and hundreds of hand-painted designer eggs.
''There are 400 to 500 of the designer eggs - and we've got to do a lot more of those,'' Ms Fahy said. ''And there's been 4000 at least of those [Easter bunnies].
''It's all hand-made, it's not machines. It's actual humans … making them, putting them into boxes.''
Ms Koo said Easter was even busier than Christmas because of last-minute shopping.
''At Christmas, people are just more organised,'' she said. ''But, at Easter, they don't realise it's so close, so it all happens within a week.
''So, from last weekend, [the madness] will continue until Easter Monday or Tuesday.''
Ms Fahy has noticed much the same: Canberrans tend to do most of their chocolate shopping in the last week leading up to Easter and Lindsay and Edmunds expect to be sold out of everything by Easter Sunday.
