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I had the most delightful chocolate gift basket, I had to tell everyone about it. Everyone loves chocolate gift baskets, or is that just me?

It would be difficult to find someone who does not like some kind of chocolate. At least that is what gift baskets business owners hope is true. Chocolate gift baskets make up a large percentage of gift basket business, especially around certain holidays like Valentine’s Day, Easter, and Christmas.

There are so many varieties of chocolate in the world. There is the fabulous Ghirardelli Chocolate made in San Francisco, U.S.A., rich dark Belgium chocolate, Godiva Chocolate, Nirvana, and many other wonderful concoctions.

There are many gift giving occasions to give a chocolate gift basket. Some ideas of the most common times to be thinking of giving chocolate as gifts are: Birthdays, holidays, in thank you gift baskets, Mother’s Day or Father’s Day, Valentines Day of course, Sympathy or Get Well, and also they go well in wine gift baskets and thank you baskets. Don’t forget another person who loves to receive chocolate – you. It’s OK to give yourself a gift basket when you are feeling particularly low, and need a pick-me-up, or when you are celebrating a promotion, or just because!

Chocolate gift baskets are not only filled with candy, they can be filled with baked goods, snacks, other food items, non-edible items, and beverages. Chocolate gift baskets make great corporate gifts too.There are chocolate covered pretzels, chocolate covered Brittle, chocolate brownies, hot chocolate, novelty chocolates and chocolate cookies. Chocolate comes in shapes, or combos, chocolate expresso beans, and chocolate covered strawberries and even chocolate containers. There are also non-edible chocolate gift items like bracelets, and electronic gadgets that can be added to the baskets to make them special.

The elderly and women are especially fond of homemade chocolates.Gift baskets home business owners will make their business unique by offering special items like homemade chocolates. Casual chocolate gift baskets are filled with the chocolates you find on store shelves and are popular with men and teenagers. A really neat touch is to provide flowers with the chocolates especially for the romantic occasions for gift baskets like Valentines’s day, weddings, anniversaries, honeymoons, and for saying “I’m sorry”, and thank you for a job well-done. You can never go wrong with offering your customer a chocolate gift basket filled with heavenly chocolates that will put everyone in a good mood. Chocolates put a smile on your face and can turn any day into a special day. Chocolates are the food of lovers and will say I love you, even when you forget that special date.

Oh, by the way I ordered my chocolate gift basket from www.freejewelry.ecrater.com It was only $37.95 plus $9.95 shipping. IT WAS DIVINE…

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Nothing beats the taste of a truly divine chocolate that is made with the finest and purest ingredients. For the chocolate connoisseur, only gourmet chocolate will do; chocolate that is surely no 50-cent treat but a luscious indulgence that is meant to be savored and cherished like good wine and good food. In recent years, more and more chocolatiers are putting up chocolate shops, creating hand-made chocolate and confections that contain higher cacao levels than those mass-produced chocolates you can buy at the grocery store. These master chocolate makers use natural flavors and some unusual ingredients like chili peppers and grated lime to make your chocolate experience even more interesting. But because they make custom and gourmet chocolates, you can also expect gourmet prices, as much as seventy dollars for a pound of chocolate! But don’t worry. There are also gourmet chocolates sold for less than ten dollars-fairly affordable and a good investment for the true chocolate lover. Below are some of the best gourmet chocolates in town.Ganache Chocolates
Former corporate pastry chef of the Ritz Carlton, Norman Love, together with partner Judy Limekiller founded Ganache, a chocolate store that serves visually stunning and delicious chocolate. Their chocolate molds are air brushed or hand-painted with a candy-coating and filled with imported chocolate from France, Belgium, and Switzerland. They also add various fresh ingredients to their chocolates such as hazelnuts, bananas, raspberries, and even ginger.La Maison du Chocolat
When it comes to luxuriousness, nothing can beat La Maison du Chocolat. La Maison chocolates come in an exquisite presentation of colored leather boxes that is elegant enough to hold jewelry. They offer decadent delights such as mendicants (chocolate lavishly sprinkled with nuts, dried fruits, or orange peel), marrons glaces, and dark and milk chocolate truffles. Their ganache fillings are not made of milk fat but of pure cocoa butter.Dagoba Organic Chocolate
Organic chocolate used to be boring and tasteless and left chocoholics gravely disappointed, but thanks to inventive chocolatiers such as former chef Frederick Schilling, owner of Dagoba Organic Chocolate, organic chocolate will never be the same again. This time, you can drown in decadence with the exciting varieties and flavors Dagoba has to offer such as chocolate roseberry (raspberry and rosehips), hazelnut, chocolate mint and rosemary, chai (milk chocolate with anise, cardamom, black pepper, clover, and cinnamon) lime and macadamia nut, and the conventional milk and dark chocolate. Schilling buys only handpicked, organic cacao beans from co-ops in Central America and the Dominican Republic, and pays the farmers full price getting Dagoba a Fair Trade certification.Garrison Confections
Former pastry chef of the upscale La Cote Basque in New York made a line of colorful and elaborately designed chocolates to serve the restaurant’s patrons after their meals and continued on to create Garrison confections, his very own chocolate company. His signature chocolate is couveture, chocolate for making truffles and pastries such as molten chocolate. It is very popular among pastry chefs across the country. Other specialties include chocolates flavored with honey and fresh herbs; almond, macadamia and hazelnut praline; and mint-flavored mojito.

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