Valentine’s Day is right around the corner and for chocolate lovers it’s quite possibly one of the best days of the year. If you’ve got a chocoholic in your life, it’s time to hunt down just the right goodies to spoil them on this cupid-filled day. If you’re looking for a chocolatey gift that will really blow them out of the water, these treats have the whole package. Not only do they taste delicious, but they are some of the most beautiful chocolates on the market and they ship nationally.
Here are 13 stunning chocolates that make for the perfect gift this Valentine’s Day.
Christopher Elbow Chocolates Valentine’s Day Collection
Treat your sweetheart to Christopher Elbow Chocolates’ latest swoon-worthy collection this Valentine’s Day. The stunning 16-piece collection features elaborately decorated bonbons in specialty flavors such as champagne, raspberry rose, passion fruit caramel, crème brulee and more. Available in a variety of packages including 8-, 18-, and 24-piece sets, the collection is available for nationwide shipping. Get themhere.
Garcia Nevett
Miami-based chocolatiers Garcia Nevett are working with a new artist to create a limited run of one-of-a-kind Heart Boxes filled with Garcia Nevett's award-winning chocolates. The boxes will be done in decoupage and collage techniques with a romantic twist. Additionally, they will also have Nutella Mini chocolate hearts, Truffles and lollipops. Available in store and for national two-day shipping. Check them out here.
Cloud11 Confections
These painstakingly crafted bonbons from Chef, Sommelier, and Entrepreneur Nicholas Pritzker, and Eleven Madison Park alum, Chef Manuela Sanin offer a microdose of THC and CBD. Cloud11 offers intricate cannabis-infused confections in three flavors: Salted Peanut, Strawberry Pink Peppercorn, and Black Sesame Yuzu. These ultra-luxe treats are handcrafted with the finest ingredients from around the world — sea salt from Amagansett Sea Salt Co, strawberries from L.A. institution Harry’s Berries, and Wadaman sesame paste sourced from Japan. Not a stoner? Neither is Cloud11. This microdose can take the edge off without invoking any uncontrollable experiences. Cloud11 is the perfect addition to any holiday soiree or gift for those who love the finer things, and an opportunity to revisit cannabis in a whole new way. Learn more about them here.
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Honey Mama’s
Honey Mama’s is a category-defying refrigerated cocoa truffle bars is the perfect Valentine’s gift with culinary flavor combinations like lavender and rose petals, tahini and tangerine oil, Vietnamese cinnamon and cayenne. They have a velvety, melt-in-your-mouth texture and flavor and are made from a base of raw honey and cocoa, are free from refined sugar, soy, dairy, eggs, and grain, and are packed with superfood ingredients. These chocolates are available for purchase on Honey Mama’s website, at Whole Foods nationwide and on Amazon.
Gigantic Candy
Not your traditional chocolates, Gigantic sorta-sweet candy bars have only 7grams of sugar and are totally vegan + gluten-free. They are made with Fairtrade dark chocolate and plant-based caramel. Gigantic Candy bars come in four flavors: salted peanut, hazelnut cafe, banana pecan, almond horchata. Get them here.
Kokak Chocolates
This Valentine’s Day gift these decadent chocolates from Kokak Chocolates, based in San Francisco specializing in small batch single origin heirloom chocolates. Serenade your beloved with a mouth-watering box of premium artisan chocolates. Take part in the Filipino tradition of Harana, serenading your lover (or lover-to-be) outside their window, guitar and chocolates in hand. The Harana Valentines Truffle Collection features mango passion fruit, cafe bombon and vanilla bean sea salt caramel. Grab them here.
Bixby’s Amarena Cherry Bonbons
A bean-to-bar factory, using quality organic cocoa beans are directly sourced from Caribbean countries such as the Dominican Republic and Haiti, Belize and Central America’s Guatemala. Bixby Chocolate’s innovations include producing its own chocolate straight from the cocoa bean for several new bean-to-bar chocolate bars, and its newly created chocolate bonbons, chocolate nibs and chocolate-covered coffee beans. Popular for Valentine’s Day are Bixby's Amerna Cherry Bon Bons. Handmade, each Bon Bon is filled with a special cherry surrounded by bean to bar chocolate ganache. Buy them here.
Kreuther Handcrafted Chocolate
With an eye to quality and craftsmanship, Kreuther Handcrafted Chocolate offers delicious, luxurious chocolate perfect for gifting to a loved one this Valentine’s Day. From two highly esteemed, award-winning New York chefs—Gabriel Kreuther and Marc Aumont crafted Kreuther chocolates with the intention of evoking a memory and telling a story. Their selection includes White Chocolate Strawberry Truffles inspired by the taste of fresh strawberries, the strawberry white chocolate ganache truffles are coated in a thin layer of white chocolate, then dusted with a strawberry powdered sugar; Signature Chef’s Selection 24-piece Chocolate Box for a richer, more chocolate forward offering the chef's curated selection of 24 chocolates combines classic American and seasonal flavors with time-tested French techniques; or Tropical Bonbon 16-piece Collection: If you're in the mood for something more exotic, the Tropical Bonbon Collection is the perfect mix of fruit forward flavors and rich handcrafted chocolate. Whimsical and luscious, this combination of macaron shaped chocolates includes three sophisticated flavors: Mojito, Kiwi Lemongrass, and 10-Flavor Yogurt. Get them here.
La Maison du Chocolat
This year, La Maison du Chocolat is celebrating Paris for Valentine’s Day, with their collection titled, “Marvelously Paris.” Paris is considered to be the city of romance, a place where love was born, and also the birthplace of La Maison du Chocolat. It is a perfect fit for Paris to be equated with both La Maison du Chocolat and love to bring you such exquisite chocolates on Valentine’s Day this year. There are also four new recipes included in the collection to satisfy the cravings of any lover in your life. These options include: spicy lemon ginger, praline pistachio, fruity mango guava, and a spicy iconic dark chocolate ganache from Akosombo. Get yours here.
Tony’s Chocolonely
Tony’s Chocolonely is known for its delicious Belgium chocolate bars in flavors like Dark Milk Chocolate Pretzel Toffee, Milk Caramel Sea Salt, and Dark Chocolate Almond Sea Salt flavors. This Valentine’s Day they are launching customizable wrappers to personalize all gifts. Tony’s will also be offering its core White Raspberry Popping Candy bars for the season made with freeze-dried raspberries and popping candies, as well as its rainbow tasting packs. Find them on Tony’s Chocolonely website here.
Tavernier Chocolates
Earthy, elegant, beautifully-presented and seasonally-inspired describes these artisanal chocolates handcrafted in the splendor of Southern Vermont. Tavernier Chocolates uses traditional European confectionery techniques to elicit the savory flavors of their terroir through locally grown and foraged fruits, herbs, mushrooms and vegetables, rich Vermont dairy and cheeses paired with the finest ethically sourced single-origin, origin-made couverture, and an exhilarating blend of global spices and ingredients. In addition to bars, tablets and bon bons, Tavernier Chocolates is perhaps best known for their award-winning savory Chocolate Charcuterie. Tavernier’s textured, sliceable saucisson-style ganache logs are made with direct trade single origin chocolates blended with savory ingredients like herbs, black garlic, chili peppers, toasted nuts and spices. The spreadable pâté-style ganache bricks are blended with Vermont cheeses, raw honey and tree syrups, creating a balanced sweet and savory amuse-gueule, hors d’oeuvre that easily becomes the unexpected star of the cheese or dessert board. Find all the goodies here.
3 Some Chocolates
Just like its name implies, 3 Some Chocolates combines three flavors into one making it a signature sweet that everyone loves. Among the most popular is their Jerk Chocolate Line featuring Jerk Chocolate Bites and Pretzels that are sweet, spicy and crunchy. For Valentine’s Day 3 Some Chocolates is featuring a limited edition Ruby White Chocolate Red Velvet Cookie Crunch Bar made with red velvet Oreos and ruby chocolate. After dark, milk and white, ruby is the most uncommon chocolate discovery in 80 years. It’s born from the ruby cocoa bean and has a stunning color even without adding any colorants or fruit flavorings. Order yours here.
Beverly Hills Teuscher
The Teuscher family began hand-crafting fine truffles and chocolates in the heart of the Swiss Alps. Keeping with a 90 year tradition, Beverly Hills Teuscher offers extraordinary truffles made in Switzerland. Both Tom and Tara’s families had long standing traditions and memories around Beverly Hills teuscher. Serving the Teuscher family chocolates and creating new memories and friends who cherish small batch Swiss Chocolate, is everything. Specialty items include Champagne Truffles made exclusively with a Dom Perignon cream center; Belle Époque Truffles with Grand Marnier infused ganache; and World Class teuscher drinking chocolate and coffee. Get their chocolates here.
