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Indulgent Triple Dark Chocolate Petit Fours - Please order at least 3 DAYS in advance of shipping date. Creek House popular brownie-like petit fours, made with 3 types of chocolate: Bittersweet, Semisweet, and Unsweetened Cocoa. Semisweet chocolate chips are added for texture ...

Mr Handyman's Toolbox Of Treats Gift Basket - Celebrate the man that can DO EVERYTHING! We fill this paperboard tool box gift tote to overflowing with gourmet goodies and treats to satisfy all his crunchy cravings. Featuring Savory Beef Salami, Camembert Cheese, Chocolate ...

48 Piece Bite Size Cheesecake Assortment - Our very popular bite size cheesecakes are exquisitely packed and presented in two gold foil candy/truffle boxes (24 per box) with gold ribbon and shipped with a personalized gift message. Four each of six different flavors: Chocolate ...

24 Piece Bite Size Cheesecake Assortment - Our very popular bite size cheesecakes are exquisitely packed and presented in a gold foil candy/truffle box with gold ribbon and shipped with a personalized gift message. Four each of six different flavors: Chocolate Chip, New ...

6 Pc Chocolate Mini Cheesecake Assortment - Perfect for a dinner party, or just to keep on hand for that special ending to any meal. Two each: Rocky Road, White Chocolate and Chocolate Topped New York Style. Keep frozen, they thaw quickly...Enjoy! Perfect for a dinner party, ...


Homemade Christmas Gift Ideas

The New York Times provides these wise words: "Christmas is there to be shaped by each family, or more precisely, by each generation of parents and children within each family, and by each community – with carol sings, tree lightings and charity drives. It is this individualization that ultimately … triumphs." We all know these words to certainly be true. Christmas in our house is different than down the block, than in the next town, than the next state, and so it goes. Christmas is family. And Chocolate.com is here with the very best homemade Christmas gift ideas ever.

Assembling a chocolate gift basket is a homemade Christmas gift idea that is a fun treat for all ages. Just find a basket in your cupboard or closet and you are ready to become gift-making elves. This box of Assorted Mini Truffles makes a really nice start. Then who can resist Chocolate Covered Oreos or the most delicious Peanut Butter Bonbons ever? That's what we thought too - absolutely no one, so let's include them. One last addition to our masterpiece of gosh-darn jollyness is a drop dead dark and rich Vere Ultimo Organic Dark Chocolate Bar. Now tie a bow on your creation and you're done.

Homemade Christmas gift ideas, you say? Well what about baking the best chocolate chocolate double triple chocolate that you've ever baked in your whole life? We all know that the proof is in the pudding, but the ingredients make the pudding! So light up Rudolph's nose so you can see into these jolly Baking Chocolates. There are chocolate chips in white chocolate, semisweet, milk chocolate and dark chocolate too. Just tempt yourself with a look at Chocolate.com for the Premium Cocoa Sampler and a variety of chocolatier-quality chocolate curls and decoratifs. But the big eye popper is the 11 lb. Chocolate Bar that will get you through all of your baking for all of those homemade Christmas gift ideas.

Just gather your little brood together and turn off the TVs, the IPods, the cellphones, and everything that beeps, rings, vibrates, talks or is plugged in. And have some good old family bonding time, they'll all love it if it includes Chocolate.com's chocolate and homemade Christmas gifts.


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did you know
A 2005 study based at Tufts University in Medford, MA found that dark chocolate actually helps to lower blood pressure. In a controlled experiment comparing 20 different people, researchers found that dark chocolate was a significant factor in lowering blood pressure, while white chocolate was not. The key ingredient thought to cause this phenomenon is flavonoids.

Flavonoids, also found in wine are types of pigments that are water-soluble and created by plants of many varieties. There are thousands of different flavanoids. Plants use flavonoids in the process of photosynthesis.

How the human body actually uses and/or processes flavonoids is still not determined but they have been linked to good health in many areas - particularly blood circulation.

If you are a science buff, then you'll be interested to know that flavonoids are polyphenolic compounds containing 15 carbon atoms, two benzene rings joined by a linear three carbon chain. If you're just an average, everyday person with a sweet tooth, then you'll be interested to know that good things are contained in a single bite of dark chocolate. So please, put down the chemistry book and enjoy some today!