10 Valentine's Day Gifts to Make Chocolate Lovers Happy
Nothing quite says Valentine’s Day like chocolate. There’s nothing quite as joyful as opening a box of chocolates in a beautifully made box. Chocolatiers across the United States release special chocolates to celebrate the holiday. They’ve worked their culinary magic to make delicious chocolate with inventive flavors and shapes so that you can show your affection to your loved ones…or gift one to yourself. No matter what your taste or what your budget may be, we have you covered.
Seattle Chocolate Love Trip Gift Box Photo credit Seattle Chocolate
Woman owned Seattle Chocolate Company wants to spread joy and make the world a little better for everyone. Their Love Trip gift contain an assortment of chocolates including flavors of Champagne, Dark Sea Salt Toffee, Malted Milk Ball, Mint Chip, Peanut Butter, and Salted Almond creamy, melt-in-your-mouth chocolate truffles. 10% of profits go to help cacao farmers.
Delysia Sensual Ruby Collection
Chef Nicole Patel brings her background in engineering into handcrafting truffles with unexpected flavors at Austin-based Delysia. For Valentine’s Day, Delysia is offering a 9 piece collection featuring ruby chocolate. Each of the three truffles is based on aphrodisiacs: truffled honey ginger; merlot cherries and cream; and chipotle orange. Give your loved one what they desire for Valentine’s day: chocolate.
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.
Recchiuti XOXO Box 16pc photo credit Seawell Productions LLC
What better way to say “I love you” than a XOXO box of 16 distinct truffles from San Francisco-based chocolate Recchiuti. It was named the New York Times’ Wirecutter Best Chocolate Box. The box contains a panoply of flavor combinations including: Piedmont Hazelnut, Star Anise & Pink Peppercorn, Lavender Vanilla, and Rose Caramel.
Cacao and Cardamom Be Mine Bonbon Bliss Bundle
Cacao & Cardamom 16 pc Chocolate Heart Box and Raspberry Rose Truffles. Annie Rupani brings the tastes of her South-Asian food background into the world of chocolate. With truffles shaped like hearts and lips, this box offers 10 flavors from Popcorn Butter, Coffee Cardamom to Fig Goat Cheese.
Andre's Frances Valentine Batons photo credit Anna Petrow.
Pastry Chef and ChocolatierRené Bollier has continued the family chocolate tradition started by his grandfather Master Konditor-Confiseur André Bollier. For over 70 years, Andre’s Confiserie Suisse has been making Swiss style chocolates in Kansas City, MO and now Overland Park, KS. For Valentine’s day, they partnered with fashion company Frances Valentine to design these blended milk and dark chocolates with flakes of caramelized crêpes with Frances Valentine’s Peony print on top. There’s also a Frances Valentine Milk and Dark Chocolate Almonds as available as part of this deliciously fashionable collaboration
Li-Lac Champagne Bottle
Champagne and chocolate are a match made in heaven. New York City-based Li-Lac Chocolates gives you the best of both worlds with the life-size Chocolate Champagne bottle. Available in white, milk, and dark chocolate, it’s 13 inches high and weighs 1.6lbs. It’s great for parties or a long indulgent night. It’s also gluten free and Kosher certified.
French Broad’s Valentine’s Day Gift Box
French Broad Chocolate’s mission is to bring high quality, sustainable sourced bean to bar chocolates to Asheville, North Carolina since 2008. This magnificent gift box contains everything a chocolate lover could want, from dessert flight bonbons, chocolate covered nuts and cherries, and a variety of chocolate bars. The dessert flight brings the tastes of popular desserts like Creme Brulé and Chocolate Lava Cake into a single bonbon.
Valerie Confections Valentine’s Truffle Assortment
Glendale-based chocolatiers Valerie Gordon and her husband, Stan Weightman Jr., have been making artisanal chocolates from all-natural ingredients for over 20 years. Their Valentine’s Truffle Assortment comes with 20 truffles in four shapes and flavors including Blushing Berry Truffles, Arrow Truffles, Broken Hearts, and Liquid Caramel Hearts. Each bite is a touch of sophistication and luxury.
Valentine’s Truffle Assortment photo credit Nick Katkov
San Francisco-based bean to bar chocolate maker Dandelion Chocolate brings poetry and chocolate together in this Love Notes collection. In the 23-piece collection, there’s 20 Bonbons in five different flavors including bay-laurel ganache & passion-fruit caramel and chocolate-thyme ganache and lemon caramel; as well as hot chocolate tablets, and a cashew-violet praline & quince caramel puck. Within the collection is a tasting guide that includes famous poets' reflections on love to add that touch of magic to the chocolates.