Do you want to buy one of your chocolate loving friends some fabulous chocolate for a Christmas, birthday, or bridal shower present? Or are you here because you want to host a Chocolate Tasting Party and want some high quality, but easy to buy recommendations? Whatever brings you here, I present to you my Buyers Guide: Chocolate Bar Gift Collection Edition.
I had a BLAST putting these six recommendations together, so I hope you can find something you love.
FYI - I do NOT get any affiliate income from these. If I do, I'll update the post to reflect that. Prices were current as of September 2023.
Taza - Boldest Flavor Gift Box
Out of all the options listed here, this is the best bang for your buck. This box comes with both bars and Mexican-style Chocolate Disks. It is based out of Massachusetts and run by a husband and wife team. Many items are dairy free, soy free, and vegan.
Accolades: certified USDA Organic, Direct Trade Certified, Non-GMO, Certified Gluten Free, and Kosher.
Price: About $4.5/bar or disk
Boldest Flavor GIft Box - $55 / 6 2.5oz bar AND 6 2.7oz disks
Perfectly Unrefined Gift Box - $79 / 8 2.5oz bars AND 8 2.7oz disks
Bar and Cocoa - Chocolate Bars of the World Gift Box
You can customize this a bit. You can select 7 or 10 bars, and you can select all milk chocolate, all dark chocolate (the vegan chocolate option), or their “Anything Goes” collection. The bars are different shapes and sizes and are BEAUTIFULLY wrapped. The box comes with a complimentary flavor wheel card.
Accolades: Woman owned, Bean to Bar
Price: About $10/bar ($72 / 7 bars. $100 / 10 bars)
Compartes Chocolate Gift Boxes
This company is a luxury chocolate company based in Los Angeles. Each bar is wrapped in exquisite artwork, many of which are featured in the Simthsonian. They have very unique flavors such as Apple Pie, Hazelnut toast, Whisky, Raspberry Rose, and Matcha Green Tea.
Accolades: “No Melt Guarantee Shipping”,
Price: depending on which box you get, each bar is about $10-$12 bar.
Nostalgic Chocolate Bar Gift Set - $50 / 4 bars
Premium 8 Chocolate Bar Gift Set - $90 / 8 bars
Deluxe 16 Chocolate Bar Gift Collection - $175 / 16 bars
Raka - Chocolate Library Gift Box
This box comes with 8 bars with unique flavors, such as Banana Fosters, Ginger Snaps, and Bourbon Cask Aged. This gift box comes with a 16 page booklet on craft chocolate.
Accolades: Their chocolate is certified organic, kosher, and non-GMO, as well as gluten, dairy, and soy free.
Chocolate Library Gift Box Price: About $7/bar ($56 / 8 bars)
Ritual Chocolate - Chocolate Bars
This company started in the Colorado Rockies and is now based out of Park City, Utah. They focus on ethical sourcing and production of chocolate and have some really cool flavors like Lavender Juniper and Honeycomb Toffee.
Accolades: Small business, ethical sourcing and production.
Price: About $11.5/bar ($58 / 5 bars)
Mountain Line Collection - $58 / 5 bars
Complete Chocolate Collection - $180 / 17 bars
Single Origin Collection - $55 / 5 bars
Mast - The Met Collection
Mast is a New York based company that sells their products online and in a few select brick and mortar stores both in and outside of New York. Whole Foods, Wegmans, and The Fresh Market often carry their products. Mast is not exclusively a chocolate company, so they offer a number of other beautiful products. Interestingly, Mast collaborated with the Met so they have a whole collection of chocolate bars wrapped in beautiful art.
They have dozens of unique chocolate flavors as well as more classic offerings, such as plain dark and milk chocolates.
Accolades: Organic, non-GMO, gluten free, kosher chocolates. Ethically sourced and produced. Portion of profits are donated to the Met.
Price: About $8.5/bar
Organic Chocolate Collect - $72 / 12 1oz bars
The Met + Mast | Collection - $100 / 12 1oz bars
Cheers,
Susan
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