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Luxist Giveaway: Two Bars of Chocri Customized Gourmet Chocolate

Filed under: Dining

Valentine's Day is a chocolate lover's holiday and Chocrí offers a unique and elegant way to indulge your sweetheart's sweet tooth: perfectly customized chocolate bars built precisely to his or her specifications. Chocrí's website, appropriately located at "createmychocolate.com," makes you a gourmet chocolatier with a choice of several fair trade organic Belgian chocolate 'bases' that you can then personalize with any number of more than 100 spices, fruits, nuts, and confectionery toppings for an all but endless list of potential combinations. Dark chocolate with candied rose petals and gold flakes? Check. Milk chocolate with pistachios, sea salt, and lime drops? Check. I don't know how anyone could ever order just one.

Chocrí doesn't think anyone should have to settle for just one either so they're generously offering one Luxist reader a gift certificate good for two customized chocolate bars of your choice, or your sweetheart's choice if you can bear to part with it, which could be worth up to $30 depending on options. Chocrí gift certificates are available in any amount and can be in your hands within minutes of ordering, which makes them perfect for last minute gift giving this holiday. So head on over to the website and construct a few dream bars and then enter to win them by leaving a comment here telling us what two flavor combinations sound the best to you.

The GIVEAWAY IS NOW OVER. THANKS TO ALL WHO ENTERED.

* To enter, leave a confirmed comment below.
* The comment must be left and confirmed before February 8, 2011 at 5:00pm Eastern Time.
* You may only enter once.
* One winner will be selected in a random drawing and notified by email.
* One winner will receive a gift certificate good for two Chocri customized chocolate bars from createmychocolate.com, worth a total retail value of up to $30 and to be delivered by email.
* Open to legal residents of the 50 United States and the District of Columbia.

See full giveaway rules here.

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Tags: chocolate, chocri, custom chocolate, giveaway, luxist giveaway, valentines day

Custom Chocolatier to the Masses

by Annie Scott (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Dining

Nothing says luxury like getting exactly what you want, exactly the way you want it. Chocri makes that dream a reality for choco-philes at createmychocolate.com.

Chocri customized chocolate bars are made from organic, fair trade Belgian chocolate. You can pick milk chocolate, white chocolate, dark chocolate or a milk and white combination for your base chocolate bar, and then get customizing. Options include, but are not limited to:

Goji Berries
Fig Bits
Banana Chips
Papaya Cubes
Sea Salt
Rosemary (it's getting interesting, isn't it?)
Jalepenos
Bourbon Vanilla
Ginger
Chives
Hazelnut Brittle
Wasabi Peanuts
Pine Nuts
Licorice
Sizzle Rocks
Gummy Bears
Marzipan Carrots (now we're onto crazy)
Sugar Flowers
Real Gold Flakes
Tiny Stars
Bacon
Candied Lilac
Candied Rose Petals
Organic Mint Leaves
Organic Poppy Seeds

Sorry, I didn't mean that to be such a long list, but once I got going it was impossible to stop. Each ingredient is more unexpected than the last! You could play around with the combinations for a long time; I recently tried one with just sesame seeds and it kind of blew my mind.

Once you design your chocolate, you name it and pay for it (you control the price by paying for whatever ingredients you add ... real gold flakes are $2.10 per bar), and it's sent to you in a personalized box. You can also enter your previous chocolate's barcode number, in case whatever you made last time was clearly the ultimate chocolate creation of all time.

More enticing still, 1 percent of the profits from every chocolate bar sold goes to aid children in the Ivory Coast region -- adding up to over $42,763 at the time of writing this. For every five bars you make, you get one free. Click here to create your own custom chocolate.

Tags: chocolate, chocri, custom chocolate, CustomChocolate, DIY