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We offer chocolate truffles in elegant boxes and in a variety of creative styles and contents. Our vendors provide chocolate gift boxes full of delightfully creative ideas: rolled in powder, filled with ganache, rich and creamy, dark and delicious, filled with champagne, filled with fruits, mixed with hazelnuts, almonds, and coffee. If you have any questions about the chocolate truffles we offer here, please contact us via the customer service section (see link at the top of the page). Thank you.
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What is a Chocolate Truffle?

What is a Chocolate Truffle?

A chocolate truffle is a small somewhat spherical confection with a creamy chocolate center and a hard chocolate shell. Ganache is the word most commonly used to describe the center of a chocolate truffle. It is a mixture of cream and chocolate and often includes creative additions such as nuts, fruits, and liqueurs. In fact, many truffles vary dramatically in their contents and coatings so that they don't look anything alike. No matter what you are looking for in a chocolate truffle, you can be certain that you will find a mouthful of delight, and of course, a smile.

Where does the term "Truffle" come from? The original dessert truffle was the mushroom/fungi that were popular throughout the course of history (they were mentioned in The Bible and in the works of Plato). The mushroom version of the truffle first encountered the chocolate version of the truffle in the 1600's when chocolate became popular in England. At some point in the evolution of the desserts, the mushroom truffle was coated or layered with chocolate. It has been theorized that the chocolate truffle took its name from the mushroom truffle. Both are desserts soft in the center, and highly sought after.

Mushroom truffles are still "hunted" today, and enjoyed by purists who prefer the fungi dessert. In fact, they are considered a rare delicacy because they are hard to find. But the chocolate truffles that we now know and love are quite different - pure chocolate, pure delight. And of course, much easier to find.


Craving Chocolate

Craving ChocolateTo crave: to long for, yearn for, thirst for, and yes, even to covet. A polygraph test would find many of us guilty of craving with respect to … you guessed it … chocolate. And the head of the beast? The quintessential chocolate truffle!

Chocolate.com’s section entitled Chocolate Truffles, which is totally truffles, 24 / 7, could simply be too much for most of us to resist.

One example: our Grande Wooden Box Assortment. This item comes from the Chocolaterie Wanders which began under the direction of Wilhelm Wanders in 1798 in Germany. Today, in 2008, it is still another Wilhelm Wanders that uses the same recipes and the same methods of chocolate making in the USA. What history! What a great story as well.

Perhaps your most trufflicious delight would be this Red & Gold Deluxe Boxed Assortment of 27 Pearl Truffles in 3 Layers filled with dark, milk and white chocolate truffles. Is that little red silk box with the gold lining just gorgeous or what? And it tastes as good as it looks!

Talk about an invention of epicurious delight! These Creek House 16 Piece Northwest Berry Truffles are as fresh as spring rain. Their chocolate ganache centers are infused with a triple berry puree of blueberry, raspberry, and marionberry. Plus all dark chocolate both inside and out!

Now don’t torture yourself by trying to fight the urge for chocolate truffles. Science has already proven the futility of those efforts. In fact, science has been chumming up with chocolate quite a bit lately, wouldn’t you say? Now bless their little laboratory hearts, look what they’ve come up with now! "Chocolate Is The Most Widely Craved Food, But Is It Really Addictive?" Chocolate.com is going to let you discover that one for yourself!


Happy Mother's Day    May 11, 2008

Happy Mother's Day    May 11, 2008

Lavish her with the gift of celebration, of luxury, and of the best Mom love wrapped in paper: chocolate! And not just any chocolate for this Happy Mother’s Day! It has to be from one of the best small-batch American chocolatiers that still hand-make their confections using the finest of ingredients, and the Frenchiest of all superb French styles!

Where can mere mortals find such unabashed chocolate heaven? Perhaps only at Chocolate.com, the unique artisanal marketplace for real chocolatiers. Consider the Gourmet Chocolate section, where many little angelic chocolate tidbits reside. How long has it been since you have given your Mom a beautiful box of Chocolate Petit Fours made by the Danish chef, Fritz Knipschildt, who has professionally trained in France, Spain and his native Denmark?

Let our Twenty-four Piece Chocolate Collection escort Mom on a journey through flavors like Local Blueberry Port and Chamomile Honey Caramel. Find this jewel and a king's ransom of others under the Chocolate Gift heading.

Don’t forget to consider a great, big and just plain wonderful Gift Basket for Mom. Having this Sweet Treats Chocolate Cookie and Candy Gourmet Gift Basket come to her door will make her almost, that’s almost as happy as a new grandchild on the way.

So choose some special Chocolate.com chocolate today for your Mom. You can order early, and just specify the day you want your gift to arrive. You’ll be glad you did, but most of all, so will she.


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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!