10 Valentine's Day Gifts to Make Chocolate Lovers Happy
Chocolate and Valentine’s Day go together like peanut butter and jelly or milk and cookies. But while a box of chocolate is always welcome, there are many other ways to enjoy chocolate too. Since it’s not yet possible to survive on chocolate alone, we’re sharing some ideas for gifts that span the chocolate spectrum from the expected—chocolate truffles and bon bons to chocolate cheese and chocolate liqueurs, all guaranteed to make the chocolate lover in your life swoon.
Chocolate Candy
Seattle Chocolate To Do With You Chocolate Truffles Heart Box $19.99
Seattle Chocolate To Do With You Photo credit Seattle Chocolate
Woman owned Seattle Chocolate Company wants to spread joy and make the world a little better for everyone. Their To Do With You Chocolates contain an assortment of chocolates including flavors of Milk Chocolate, Blackberry Creme, Salted Almond and Dark Sea Salt Toffee. As a bonus, Seattle Chocolate donates 10% of net profits to Girls Inc.
Love Frequency Purple Energy Collection photo credit Vosges
Chicago-based Vosges has been bringing innovative flavor pairings to the chocolate world for many years. This 16 piece box contains a variety of flavors including Bergamot, Strawberry Coulis, Strawberry Mascarpone, and Bordier Butter, using different types of chocolate. Also as a bonus to add another sense to the experience, the box includes two 2 mini Haut-Chocolate Bars, where one is infused with 528 Hz sound frequently while the other is not. Eat them while listening to the included QR code.
Dean's Chocolates - Subscription Box photo credit Dean's Sweets
Maine based Dean’s Sweets uses local ingredients to make chocolates to honor their home. For the real luxurious gift, Dean’s Sweets offers monthly or seasonal chocolate subscriptions that includes sneak previews of their new items as well as free shipping.
Hearts on Fire photo credit Kokak Chocolates
Woman-owned Kokak Chocolates creates small-batch single origin chocolates, based in San Francisco, California. For the chocolate connoisseurs who want single origin, the Hearts on Fire collection offers 18 single origin, fair trade chocolates from Ecuador. Flavors include guava jam, hazelnut praline, and more. Order quickly because there are only a limited number of boxes available. But there are many other delicious Valentine’s treats at Kokak Chocolates.
Sweet and Salty photo credit Raaka Chocolate
New York-based Raaka Chocolate wanted to make the world of chocolate a better place. They create unroasted, single origin chocolate bars and more, including vegan offerings. For the vegan chocolate lovers, here’s 40 mini bars of sweet and salty coconut milk minis with little phrases on each.
Cheese & Chocolate
Cheese and chocolate? Yes! And if you’re interested to know more, read our ultimate guide to pairing cheese and chocolate for Valentine’s Day over on the Cheese Professor.
Murray's Cheese - Murray's Cave Aged Limited Triple Crème de Cocoa $24 for half pound
Murray's Creme de Cocoa photo credit Murray's
For those cheese and chocolate lovers, here’s a real special cheese from Murray’s Cheese, cheese store extraordinaire in New York City. The cheese is Four Fat Fowls’ St. Stephens with milk chocolate wafer from François Pralus. They are out currently but they’ll have more in stock in February. So order fast since this one goes quickly!
Rogue Creamery-Chocolate and Cheese Lovers Gift
If one cheese and chocolate combination isn’t enough, Oregon based Rogue Creamery teamed up with Lillie Belle to create a limited edition box of chocolate and cheese. Included in the box is Bluehorn Wine Soaked Blue Cheese, Cheese is Love Extra-Cheddar, Sunshine Daydream 45% Bean-to-Bar Milk Chocolate, and more.
Chocolate Drinks
We love chocolate drinks from nostalgic hot chocolate to divine chocolate liqueur. If you are intrigued read more about chocolate liqueurs.
Midunu - Dark Chocolate Hot Chocolate - Adwoa Dark Chocolate Mix - $24
Midunu Adwoa Drinking Chocolate photo credit Midunu Chocolates Ghana
Midunu Chocolates wants to spread the word about the excellence of Ghanaian and African chocolates. Since February tends to be on the bitter cold side, there’s nothing like a cup of drinking chocolate to make your loved ones warm and content. This drinking chocolate is made from 80% dark chocolate with Western African spices. Looking for more hot chocolate? Read our story on 4 new brands.
Marigot Bay Chocolate Coffee Rum Cream
For folks who want to bring together the flavors of rum, dark chocolate and coffee, here’s a real treat for you. Marigot Bay brings the delightful rum of Saint Lucian with dark chocolate, cream, and espresso coffee. Drink it on ice or use it in a variety of different cocktails. Check the website to see where Marigot Rum is stocked near you.
Mozart Chocolate Cream - $22 (varies)
Mozart - Chocolate Cream
Austrian based Mozart Chocolate Liqueur brings Belgian chocolate and cream to make a delicious chocolate liqueur. There are several flavors available from White Chocolate to Pumpkin Spice. Plus their website has a variety of cocktail recipes on their website to complete a very special Valentine’s Night!