Monday, February 9, 2009

Chocolate Makes The Perfect Gift For Valentine's Day

By DrJeanaDavidNed57

If you're looking for the perfect gift for your sweetie this Valentine's Day, you might be having a tough time deciding on a gift. The perfect Valentine's Day gift has to be romantic, luxurious, and thoughtful. Don't be one of those people who picks a disappointing gift year after year. The easiest way to assure that you've selected the best gift for your girlfriend or wife is to choose something chocolate!

Whether it's sweet, rich, milk chocolate, decadent dark chocolate, or unique white or flavored chocolates, your sweetie will be guaranteed to love your gift. That's because chocolate is traditionally known across the world as a symbol of love and romance. Not to mention that it is delicious!

In fact, one of your options is to create a chocolate rose "bouquet". The bouquet is composed of decadent dark, white or milk chocolate in the formation of a beautiful, edible rose. You can make your bouquet even more special by selecting unique chocolate flavours such as pink peppermint and raspberry.

They even look like roses as they are wrapped in red foil and attached to a stem so they can be held like a bouquet. For extra fun they are tied with a pretty ribbon and put in a box made for real roses. Your special someone is up for a surprise when she opens the box and finds chocolate instead of the roses she expected.

Other possibilities are chocolate gift baskets. These are a great choice if you're not sure what kind of chocolate treats your sweetheart might like. You can choose truffles, petit fours, tortes, kisses and bars, and even bridge mixes. To add to the excitement, you can add a chocolate-colored teddy bear, fine dessert wine or champagne, roses, or anything else your heart desires.

You can choose a traditional box, or a wicker basket, decorative bowl, or even a picnic hamper, to hold the components of your chocolate gift baskets. A selection of exotic chocolate treats will be just the thing to make your sweetie happy, and she will also treasure the basket itself for years to come.

One of the most popular choices for a Valentine's day gift is a traditional box of fine chocolates. It's a classic for a reason! No one can resist a heart shaped velvet box full of tasty goodies. You can choose from a vast array of tasty, melt in the mouth, chocolates to put in it. However if you sweetie is a diabetic or on a diet you may worry, but don't there are chocolates for her too. Some of these options include sugar free chocolates or even low fat chocolates. Why not put in some chocolate covered nuts or pretzels or even candy, the variety is enormous!

One of the oft overlooked choices, as sad as that is, is the gift of chocolate covered fruit. You sweetheart will swoon when she sees the lavish and decadent gift you have gotten her of chocolate covered strawberries and other fruits. Strawberries are the first that come to mind but don't forget the more unusual ones such as apricots or cherries. Plum succulent fruit encased in sweet rich chocolate is mouth watering and undeniably romantic.

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