Be Creative with your Chocolate Choices
All of us know one, a chocolate lover. When it comes time to make a gift basket for a chocolate lover there are several ways you can go. It really depends on whether the chocolate lover is a male or a female. Here are a few suggestions for the best items to put in a gift baskets.
First, let’s use the word basket loosely. If it is summertime and you want to give a gift of chocolate, the best way to do that is to place the chocolate in some sort of a cooler. You can decide if this is appropriate as part of your gift. You can get a dry ice pack to keep the chocolate from melting. Much as we all love chocolate, melted chocolate can be an awful mess and certainly is a waste.
Chocolate covered fruit is one very delicious gift for anyone who appreciates both fruit and chocolate. You can choose a fresh fruit like strawberries or a dried fruit such as apricots, either way they are sure to be a hit. One of the most unusual is chocolate covered blueberries sold in Maine, they are dried and chewy.
If you are gifting someone who doesn’t have a nut allergy then there are lots of varieties of chocolate covered nuts. Peanuts are one of the least expensive but certainly not the only one available.
There are lots of cookbooks dedicated to the enjoyment of chocolate and starting your gift basket with of them is a great beginning. Most people who love chocolate also love hot chocolate, throwing a can or a couple of packages of gourmet hot chocolate into the basket is sure to please.
Who hasn’t seen those really cute magnets that tell the world how much chocolate means to you? If you are starting to put things aside for your chocolate lover’s gift basket these are a nice small addition. You can also find calendars, aprons, mugs and much more that are dedicated to the chocolate lover in all of us.
If you are in the mood to go a whole different direction, how about a bath and body chocolate basket, with of course a bar of good Belgian chocolate thrown in for good measure. You can find lip gloss, body scrub, shower gel and lotions all scent with the finest in chocolate. How about a chocolate bath balm or chocolate bubble bath, these are all available at an Online store called the Chocolate Lotus.
You know the person you’re a making the gift basket for. Do they love the darkest of dark chocolate, milk chocolate, white chocolate? Are they a Belgian chocolate lover or do they enjoy a good old American Hershey bar? There are so many ways you can go with a basket for a chocolate lover. You will never run out of ideas.
The problem you will encounter in making a gift basket for your chocolate lover is not what to put in the basket but how to limit yourself to one basket,
