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Showing posts with label exotic chocolate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label exotic chocolate. Show all posts

A Sweet Treat For Control Freaks. Chocri Custom Organic Exotic Chocolate Bars.




No, I'm not talking about just adding your own label or uploading a picture to the wrapper. I'm talking about truly creating your own chocolate bars from scratch.


above: three examples of possible options for your own created chocolate bars

chocri is a German startup, founded in September 2008, but launched in the US in January 2010. What they do is we allow you to customize your own chocolate bar right on their website.

You start with an organic Belgian chocolate base of milk, white or dark chocolate and then choose from a selection of over 100 of gourmet, organic and exotic ingredients (fruit, grains, nuts, spices, confections and decor).



If you don't know anything about ingredients, they also offer many recommended combinations and options to make the selection simple.

Once you've chosen or built your bar, you can name it (they print the name and the ingredients on the package), and then they hand-make the bars in Germany and ship them off to you.




From bacon to blueberries, pretzels to pecans, you can be as adventurous or as safe as you'd like. I made three to test them out (shown below).


One was dark chocolate with real orange bits and orange chocolate drops, another was milk chocolate, pecans and toffee and the third was milk chocolate with organic salted pretzels and caramel chocolate drops. And yes, they are, er.... were, delicious.

So, how do you do it?
You start with your choice of milk, white or dark chocolate as the base:



Then you are walked through the process to choose as many or as few additives as you wish from the following options (click on each image below to enlarge):

Choose your fruit:

Your spices:

Your nuts:

Your confections:

Your decor:

Your grains:




There's no minimum. You can choose to make one bar or one hundred bars. Once you've selected your ingredients for your chocolate bar(s), they print the name you choose and the ingredients on the individual package, then ship them right to your door.



They use only the best ingredients, such as organic, fair trade chocolate from Belgium. Making them even more delicious is the fact that they also donate a percentage of otheir revenues to DIV Kinder, an organization that supports children at the Ivory Coast, and you are free to add your own donation at checkout.


above: the Chocri team

What are you waiting for? With Easter and Mother's Day right around the corner, these would make awesome gifts.
Get started here.




If you like chocolate, you'll love this:

The Art of Chocolate. Oops, Reverse That.

The Art of Chocolate. Oops, Reverse That.



above: chococlate sculpture by Paul Wayne Gregory

Not many things are more appealing to me than art or chocolate. So, the combination of the two is something I was destined to blog about. Whether it's replications of historical sculpture, of everyday objects or modern abstract creations crafted with actual, edible chocolate, here are some you can admire, some you can order and all you can eat.

Custom Chocolate Sculptures by Paul Wayne Gregory:


Inquire about them here. (special thanks to Betsy Wills for this one)

Chocolate sculptures by frenchman Patrick Roger.
Below the chocolatier with "Harold":

and his chocolate penguins:


Chocolate City:

created by Naoko Tone and Atsuyoshi Iijima from the Chocolate exhibition at the 21_21 Design Sight space in Tokyo.

Canadian-born Cosimo Cavallaro created this controversial life sized chocolate Jesus in 2005:



And followed it up with more Chocolate Saints in 2007:



And here's artist George Heslop with his life-sized chocolate Jesus on the Cross (this one's not edible, folks):


Beautiful Valentine's sculptures in chocolate by Joseph Schmidt:




the above sculptures are not for sale

Artist and award winning Pastry Chef Gerhard Petzl's chocolate sculptures:






Here's the Gerhard with his World's Largest Chocolate Santa made just last December:


Not going to travel the world to attend Chocolate fairs, museums and exhibits, but still want a sweet piece of art? Perhaps not as artfully crafted, but certainly as delicious tasting, consider these other fun chocolate items:

Chocolate Gifts You Can Buy Now.

Endangered Species Chocolate Wall Trophies:


available from the W Hotel Store or Walteria Living


The Chocolate Pie Chart:


From Matt and Mary. Buy it here.



Painter Girl's Animal Print Bars, Chocolate Frida Tribute Bar and caramel filled chocolate paint tubes are made to order. Get them here.

Jessica Walters' handmade chocolate shoes.
Available as one large shoe:

a pair of medium sized chocolate shoes:

or a small chocolate pair in a box:

buy them here.

And of course, the fab white or milk chocolate Nike's by Blondel Chocolates in conjunction with +41:


buy them here.

And fnally, Vosges Flaming Heart Chocolates, available in 3 different flavors:



buy them here.

Yes, I know there are a many pieces of sculpted chocolates in the shapes of things like cell phones, 3D roses, gold bars, et cetera, but I'm focusing on hand made pieces that embody the craft of an artist which is why I did not include them in this post. Bon Appetit!

Chocolate Links:
Chocolate Show
Museum of Cocoa and Chocolate
Chocolate Museum of Belgium
Chocolate Museum
Extreme Chocolate
chocosphere
chocolate maniacs
fine dark chocolate
logochoco (custom chocolates including your product made out of chocolate)

Some chocolate producers:
Best Belgian Chocolate Of The World Online Store
biagio fine chocolate
Cadbury
Chocolate art (UK)
DC Duby
Ghirardelli
Godiva
Guittard
Hersheys
joseph schmidt master chocolatier
Lake Champlain Chocolates
Lindt
marie-belle
Nestle
Neuhaus
Norman Love
Patrick Roger
Scharffen Berger
teuscher
Valrhona
Vosges
zChocolates

All things chocolate-related on Amazon

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