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Chocolate Lover's Paradise

This elegant wire basket is filled with a paradise of delicious chocolate delights including 24 rich gourmet cookies made with Guittard Chocolate. The cookies are made with only the finest ingredients and baked at higher than usual temperatures to create a crunchy cookie with a moist center. Mackenzie's Chocolates, famous for intricate shaped chocolates, provides the rest of the sweet confections: a 16-piece box of chocolate covered toffee, a 32-piece box of flower-shaped chocolates, a 4-piece box of filled truffles, and a unique heart-shaped chocolate box which opens to reveal 3 more perfect truffles. The wire basket, which holds this heavenly collection of 80 chocolate delights, makes a great centerpiece for fruit or holiday decorations after the treats disappear. A yummy chocolatey treat! Gift is 16" x 16" x 4.5" and weighs 11 lbs.

Keepsake Chocolate Chest

Moonstruck Chocolates were a featured favorite in OPRAH'S "O" Magazine. Whether it's for you or someone special, Moonstruck chocolates always make a great gift. Eclipse the ordinary with these unique treasure chests filled with delicious chocolate truffles. Select 15 or 30 truffles in your choice of a decorative Star Swirl chest or a Dragonfly chest, each with a hinged top. The 15-piece chest comes with one of each of the truffles listed below, and the 30-piece chest comes with two of each. Truffles include: Pure Gold, Milk Chocolate, Wild Huckleberry, Tuaca Liqueur, Clear Creek Pear Brandy, Bailey's Irish Cream, Cinnamon Roll Latte, Clear Creek Apple Brandy, Italia Cappuccino, Almond Tower, Strawberry Cream Heart, Ocumarian, Extra Bittersweet, Chai Bell Milk Chocolate, and Coconut Cream.

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Interesting Chocolate Facts and Trivia

The word chocolate comes from the Aztec word, "cacahuatl".

The Aztecs and Mayans used the cacao bean as a unit of currency.

The Aztecs drank chocolate in a bitter drink which also contained chillies, cornmeal and hallucinogenic mushrooms. Imagine that!

In 1879, in Switzerland, Rodolphe Lindt developed "conching", a way of kneading chocolate during manufacture, which gives it a smooth consistency.

The botanical name for the cacao bean is Theobroma, which is Greek for "food of the gods".

The cacao bean was first brought to Europe by the Spanish conquistadors in 1528. Traders probably spelt the name incorrectly, hence "cocoa" instead of "cacao".

In seventeenth-century Europe, chocolate became popular as a sweet drink made with sugar and vanilla.

Henri Nestle was the first to create milk chocolate by adding condensed milk to the mixture when making chocolate bars.

Cacao trees produce pods, each of which contains 20 to 50 cacao beans.

Cacao beans are fermented, dried, roasted and ground before being used to produce chocolate.

White chocolate is made from cocoa butter, which is the fat extract from crushed roasted cacao beans. White chocolate contains no caffeine.

Cocoa butter makes the ultimate sensuous, yummy massage cream.

There are different varieties of cacao beans with different flavours, much the same as there are different varieties of grapes which produce different wines.

Chocolate liquor - extracted from crushed, roasted beans - is solid at room temperature but melts at 92 degrees Fahrenheit, round about tongue temperature and hence the melt-in-the-mouth pleasure effect.

Chocolate contains hundreds of chemicals including the stimulant phenylethylamine, which creates a "feel-good factor".

Chocolatiers have their own technical terms, for example, "praline" which means a mixture made from a paste of chocolate and crushed hazelnuts; or "ganache", which is a mixture of chocolate and cream with a smooth texture. The ganache chocolate was born when a French 19th-century apprentice knocked some cream into a tub of chocolate. His boss called him, "un ganache" - an imbecile!

In the eighteenth century, chocolate was regarded as an aphrodisiac (it still is!). The celebrated Italian libertine, Giacomo Casanova, took chocolate before bedding his conquests.

It's healthy? Chocolate is good for you? Recent research from Argentina suggests a chocolate-rich diet reduces damage to blood fats caused by free radicals.

In another study, volunteers who consumed 37g of chocolate a day showed increases in plasma prostacyclin levels, and reduction in leukotriene levels.

Concentration aid? Chocolate helps you concentrate... It contains a caffeine-like stimulant called theobromine and chocolate can boost low blood-sugar levels. Also chocolate is a good source of chromium, which helps to control blood sugar.

Gold bars? It boosts the economy... Last year Britons spent Ј3 billion on half a million tons of chocolate.

It's educational? Chocolate has literary leanings...Confectionary-inspired reading includes Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel and Chocolat by Joanne Harris.

Eggstravagant! Chocolate eggs are cheaper than Fabergи... The most expensive Easter egg wasn't made of chocolate. It was designed by Peter Carl Fabergи in the 1800s.

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