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![]() Chocolate Decadence $39.95 Indulge the chocolate lover with this best-selling assortment of world famous chocolates and gourmet confections. Paired with sweet companions, this gift creates a celebration that is truly decadent. Included in this Gift: Ghirardelli Squares in Dark, Caramel and Sea Salt Chocolate. Lindt Dark Orange Chocolate, Cookies, Truffles and more. |
![]() Chocolate Celebration Gift Basket $55.00 Milk Chocolate Caramel Squares Gift Bag, Assorted Chocolate Squares Gift Bag, Gold Gift Tin with Assorted Squares, Brown Gift Box with Assorted Squares, Blue Round Gift Box with Assorted Squares, Milk Chocolate Caramel Bar, Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Caramel Bar, Dark Chocolate Raspberry Bar, Intense Dark Chocolate 72% Cacao Bar, Intense Dark Chocolate Hazelnut Heaven Bar, Intense Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Roasted Almond Bar, Celebrate any occasion with this handsome gift basket, filled with a selection of Ghirardelli Chocolate's finest. Includes an assortment of Squares chocolate favorites like Milk Chocolate Caramel and a variety of Ghirardelli Chocolate bars. |
![]() Chocolate Paradise $99.00 Soft and chewy cookies, luscious truffles, crisp toffee and decadent, creamy medallions... it's a chocolate-lover's dream. Included in this Gift: 24 Gourmet Guittard Chocolate Cookies, 16-Piece White and Milk Chocolate Medallions, 18-Piece MacKenzie's Chocolate-Covered Toffee, 3-Piece Filled Chocolate Truffles in an Edible Chocolate Box, 4-Piece Filled Chocolate Truffle Box. |
![]() French Chocolate Gift Assortment $45.63 The Classique is an assortment of time-honored flavor combinations prepared with a distinctive zChocolat touch. From a raspberry ganache covered in dark chocolate to a passion fruit caramel blanketed in milk chocolate, it’s a delicious way to experience the essential zChocolat recipes. Includes pieces 0 to 11 from the Numbered Collection plus three of their legendary Z chocolates. |
![]() Dark Chocolate Gift Assortment $45.63 Indulge your dark side with this assembly of zChocolat's most sophisticated pieces. With fillings ranging from tangy passion fruit to sultry Kenyan coffee, each member of this assortment was included because of its silky 70% dark cocoa couverture. The resulting collection is at once robust and sensual, sure to be appreciated by dark chocolate aficionados everywhere. |
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![]() Assorted Chocolate Squares Gift Bag $19.95 Ghirardelli signature SQUARES chocolates deliver the perfect balance of intense, slow-melting chocolate and rich ingredients in a variety of flavors. Our Assorted SQUARES make a sweet gift for all the chocolate lovers in your life and show you have got great taste. The Assorted SQUARES Gift Bag includes: 6 Milk Chocolate Caramel, 5 Dark Chocolate Caramel, 7 Dark Chocolate 60% Cacao, 7 Milk Chocolate, 5 Dark Chocolate Mint, 5 Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Caramel, 5 Dark Chocolate Raspberry |
![]() Intense Dark Chocolate Gift Bag $19.95 The luxuriously deep and velvety 86% cacao dark chocolate in Ghirardelli Midnight Reverie delivers unrivaled chocolate intensity. Our Intense Dark Chocolate 86% Cacao Midnight Reverie SQUARES make a sweet gift for all the chocolate lovers in your life and show you've got great taste. |
![]() Intense Dark Chocolate Raspberry Gift Bag $19.95 Savor the perfect combination of delectably luscious raspberry filling made with real fruit surrounded by intense dark chocolate. Our Dark Chocolate Raspberry SQUARES make a sweet gift for all the chocolate lovers in your life and show you've got great taste. |
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Godiva I Love You Chocolate Box |
![]() 8 pieces of Godiva's Chocolate Mini Box $16.95 A iconic Gold Gift Box is filled with 8 pieces of Godiva's bestselling, top-rated chocolate pieces, in an assortment of milk, dark and white chocolates with indulgent texture, flavor combinations with classic Belgian fillings. Velvety smooth caramels and nutty, smooth pralines are sure to delight the senses. |
![]() 19 Piece Gold Chocolate Gift Box $29.95 Delight someone special with a box of our world-famous chocolates adorned with lush ribbon. Each assortment is filled with a variety of our milk, dark, and white chocolates with classic Belgian fillings such as silky ganaches, creamy pralines, rich caramels, fruits, and nuts. Finished with a classic gold ribbon. |
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When you want to make a big gesture, a chocolate gift or a
chocolate gift basket is the perfect choice.
These gifts are guaranteed to impress and put a smile on
your recipients face.
There is nothing that creates a gasp of surprise and
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These gift boxes, basket, gift bags and chocolate towers
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You’ll be the hero and be the one your friends and family
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Welcome a new baby, say thank you to a new corporate client
or send a special birthday gift to a friend or family
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We also deliver corporate chocolate gift baskets to all
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Our Chocolate Gift Basket shop in Florida offers the world's
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What is chocolate?
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Chocolate is produced from the seed of the cacao tree.
Unfortunately for many home gardeners eager to have their
own stash of chocolate, trees grow only in tropical regions:
Central America, the Caribbean, Indonesia, and Africa.
Cacao production
Cacao production is labor-intensive. Trees require hand
harvesting and machetes, as the pods can reach a size
comparable to butternut squash and hold between 30 and 50
beans.
Cacao trees grown in the wild with shade can maintain
production for nearly 100 years. Take that, biennials.
Cacao processing
The beans, about the size of almonds, are allowed to ferment
for 3 to 7 days and then dried. This fermentation is
essential — the raw seeds are very bitter.
After fermentation beans must be sorted, cleaned, and
weighed before roasting.
After roasting, the beans enter a machine that cracks the
seed coats and blows them away, leaving behind cacao nibs,
which are 47% cocoa solids and 53% cocoa butter.
Cocoa butter (from cacao) is the main source of fat in
chocolate. The cocoa solids are ground into cocoa powder,
the same stuff that flavors your chocolate protein powder.
Cacao nibs left after bean cracking can be milled into a
“nut butter”-like paste, called chocolate liquor (alcohol
free), which can then be pressed.
The chocolate liquor on its own is dry and gritty. It can be
combined with other ingredients like sugar, vanilla, and
lecithin to make a more palatable product, and/or be broken
down on machinery and kneaded for days to improve the
texture.
Careful heating and cooling will create a stable structure.
Chocolate history: Willy Wonka and the Mayans
Back in 250-900 A.D. the Mayans noticed a wild tree (cacao
tree) occupying rain forests in South America and figured
out it could be cultivated.
They would ferment, roast, and grind the beans, similar to
what we do today.
But the Mayans didn’t have a “Willy Wonka Factory” with
helpful machinery to produce a variety of confections.
Instead, they enjoyed chocolate as a beverage, with ground
beans, water, chile, vanilla, black pepper and cornmeal,
sweetened with honey.
To Mayans, cacao was valuable stuff. It wasn’t consumed on a
regular basis, but often used as part of tradition and
rituals. Cacao beans were also used as a form of currency.
The industrial revolution changed the chocolate
“experience.” The cocoa press was invented in 1828 to
separate chocolate into cocoa butter and solids (cocoa
powder).
Between 1875 and 1894 the names “Nestle” and “Hershey”
became more popular with the development of milk chocolate
and mass production of chocolate bars spanning the globe.
Specialized chocolate companies have only been popular since
the 1980s.
Types of Chocolate
Unsweetened chocolate
Made from 100% cocoa liquor and bitter unless mixed with
other ingredients. ( I learned this when I took a bite of my
mom’s unsweetened baking chocolate at the age of 7.)
Bittersweet, semisweet, or dark chocolate
Dark chocolate can contain no milk powder and must have a
minimum of 35% cocoa solids. Bittersweet and semisweet are
similar and differ based on the percentage of sugar.
Milk chocolate
At least 10% chocolate liquor and 12% milk solids. Also has
more sugar than dark or semisweet.
White chocolate
Well, it’s not really chocolate, as it’s made from cocoa
butter, sugar, and flavorings.
Cocoa powder
A crushed and ground solid left after cocoa butter is
removed from chocolate liquor. Cocoa powder is typically
unsweetened.
There are two main varieties, regular and Dutch process.
Dutch is alkalized to neutralize the acid. If you cook with
baking powder, use Dutch. If you cook with baking soda, use
regular.
Why is chocolate so important?
We eat a lot of it
For years, people ate chocolate for ts stimulatory
properties: it was thought to increase energy, stimulate
sexual desire, and generally add zest to life.
Chocolate is a divine, celestial drink, the sweat of the
stars, the vital seed, divine nectar, the drink of the gods,
panacea and universal medicine.
–Geronimo Piperni (1796) Nowdays, people usually eat it
because it tastes good.
North Americans eat about 12 pounds of chocolate per year,
not quite placing in the top 10 for worldwide consumption.
In 2001, Americans consumed 3 billion pounds of the stuff,
which totaled about $13 billion in sales.
(By comparison, the sale of all other non-chocolate candy
items in 2001 was $7.6 billion.)
Chocolate is a frequent snack item. Nearly 70% of chocolate
is consumed between meals.
This is your brain on chocolate
Chocolate may have effects on people’s moods. Most chocolate
is eaten in the winter, which suggests that people often use
it as a way to beat the seasonal blues.
Chocolate may also improve cognitive performance, according
to some studies. Other studies show no benefit.
Antioxidant content
Traditional chocolate is one of the most concentrated
sources of natural antioxidant plant compounds, called
flavonoids. Cocoa products account for a major proportion of
flavonoid intake in Western countries.
Flavonoids are bitter and astringent (again, you’d know this
if you’ve ever eaten 99% dark chocolate or cacao nibs). This
is why many companies add sugar and milk fat (think
Kit-Kat).
Unfortunately these “additions,” along with other processing
methods, can inhibit the absorption of the flavonoids.
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