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Gourmet Chocolate Gift Basket Ideas

A note about putting together gift baskets

By Cheryl Sandberg

Whether it's a gift basket for a friend or for a fundraising event, chocolate is the way to go! It's the "Oooooh and Ahhhh" basket everyone wants, and everyone who loves chocolate, loves it all the way.

Gift giving for the chocolate lover is easy. There is a variety of fun chocolate gift ideas to tantalize your gourmet chocolate lover friend or coworker. Gift baskets are fun to put together and we have several ideas to help. Chocolate gift basket ideas can be broad in nature. In your basket you can have a selection of fine pre-made chocolates, make your own truffles, or place things such as chocolate covered espresso beans, gourmet hot chocolate or a fun huge 10 pound bar of gourmet chocolate into your basket. If your friend doesn't want all the calories of chocolate, we have other great ideas, too. We've personally reviewed all of these products and found them wonderful for putting in your personalized gourmet chocolate gift basket.

For those who don't blink at calories when it involves chocolate, add these wonderful products to their basket:

A huge, never forgettable, 10 pound bar of fine French chocolate
Make them some candy with our recipes.
An Occasional Chocolate candy making supply gift certificate

Non-caloric gift suggestions:

Chocolate aprons
Books and DVDs about chocolate

Or here are some great products that are chocolate related - fun, fun, fun!

Lotions and Soaps

Country Bunny Bath and Body has a bunch of fun things that we loved. Our favorite of course involved chocolate! The Chocolate Mint Massage Bar is lotion in bar form specifically designed to melt slightly with your body heat. We tried it on sore muscles and tired feet and backs. We also lent it to one of our team members who is pregnant. She rubbed it on her belly and really enjoyed it! The cocoa butter has a natural SPF and is known for so many other health benefits. Bees wax is wonderful for so many things and we liked that it doesn't harbor any bacteria. What a fun gift this would be!

Enchanted Potions has a wonderful list of fun and exciting things for your skin, which is fun by itself. But when we found THESE potions, we went nuts! We think we found a way to avoid paying $4 every morning for mochas. Imagine sitting in a bath tub and lathering up with shower gel with "Double Chocolate Fudge" as its name. Ohh...the smell is heavenly! You feel like you are drinking a mocha while you are rubbing it on your skin. The cocoa in the product has known health benefits but did you know that it is a natural sunscreen? Don't miss it, and wow what a great price! The other product we snatched up in a hurry was a soap bar that made us drool with the name "Cocoa-Cappuccino Soap Bar." It really couldn't be better. A bath and cocoa with cappuccino right in it! Wonderful!

Wrap your own personalized candy bar!

With 2 big birthdays in our office this year (one of them is 40 and one of them is 50, but we promised not to state any names!), we looked for fun ideas to celebrate. This year we ran across some fun ways to personalize chocolate bars. At www.loris-candy-wrapper-creations.com, we personalized some fun wrappers to give our hard workers. The wrappers fit around a normal-sized chocolate bar. You can add graphics and fun comments about who they are. They made really fun personal gifts. We personalized numerous chocolate bars for the big party.

Fun Chocolate Note Pad and Note Cards

We found this great note pad and note cards at The Glam Boutique. What fun! The cards are on high-quality paper and printed beautifully. The note pad says, "Did you say chocolate?" You can add a special touch with a note card that matches and suggests, "Life is Sweet, Order Dessert First." Well, we sure liked that idea!

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