· Custom Bonbon Boxes

· Askinosie Chalk-Late Box

· Charles Chocolate Triple Chocolate Hazelnuts and Almonds

· Rabitos Spanish Figs

· Vosges Sweet & Savory Caramel Collection

· D. Barbero Torrone Tin

· Fran's Sweet Sixteen Salt Caramel Box

· Zingerman's Bakehouse Zzang! Original candy Bar

When I was in elementary school, Valentine's Day was one of my favorite days of the year. It was a magical day — sanctioned by Mr. Valentine, I figured — when anything was possible. I loved decorating my Valentine's Day box and going to the drugstore with my mom to select my cards to give away. I favored the Rainbow Brite and Little Mermaid collections for a couple years, carefully selecting the right cards for the right people and embellishing them with stickers, crayon designs and sometimes even a personal message. I don't think much has changed since we were all little. I think many of us see Valentine's Day as a "safe" day to show and tell people how much we care about them. Even the relationships on the periphery of our lives can be honored on Valentine's Day with a note or... a piece of chocolate.

While I can't help you with the former, I can help you with the latter. I've selected some of my very favorite chocolates and confections at the Deli to help you start thinking about Valentine gifting. Want to visit in person and taste some things together? Email me anytime (eanderson@zingermans.com) or call me (734-663-JAVA) and we'll pick a time to meet in the chocolate corner and chat. The crew and I can even wrap your selections for you! Sit down and have a hot chocolate — you're treats will be ribboned and ready in no time!

Custom Bonbon Boxes
Our truffle case is bountiful, filled with the best bonbons from the best chocolatiers in the country.

You'll find a selection of truffles, pralinés, caramels, marzipans and pâte de fruit, from seven of our favorite chocolatiers from across the U.S.: Sweet Gem Confections (MI); Charles Chocolates (CA); Grocer's Daughter (MI); Chocolat Moderne (NY); Cluizel (France); Fran's (WA); and Chocolate in Chelsea (NY). There are more than thirty-five different bonbons to choose from! Whether you're looking for two-pieces or forty-eight pieces, we're ready to build you the ballotin of your dreams.

Askinosie Chalk-Late Box
It's a wooden box filled with one each of Shawn Askinosie's chocolate bars — Soconusco, Soconusco Nibble, San Jose del Tambo and San Jose del Tambo Nibble. The box has a sliding lid and the surface on the outer part of the lid is black chalkboard! The box comes with a piece of chalk for you to write a message, like, "Now you know how much I like you."

Charles Chocolate Triple Chocolate Hazelnuts and Almonds
"Whoopie," you say... "what is so special about chocolate covered nuts?" Two things. First, these nuts (Oregonian hazelnuts, California almonds) are perfectly roasted so they are neither chewy nor burnt — just right in the middle. Second, they are dipped and re-dipped in a blend of dark and milk chocolate until the chocolate coating is nearly as thick as the nut itself. That's why they are so big! The quality of the nuts, coupled with chocolate you can sink your teeth into, make these tins great.

mailorder-able!

Rabitos Spanish Figs
So simple, and so good. A tender, seedy Spanish fig, filled with a velvety (and heady) brandy ganache and dipped in dark chocolate. The ganache will warm your tummy and the fig will please your palate. Each chocolate-dipped fig is individually wrapped in gold foil and nestled inside the box. We sell out every year.

mailorder-able!

Vosges Sweet & Savory Caramel Collection
We selected our favorite ingredients from our Zing pantry... Parmigiano-Reggiano, Turkish Urfa Pepper, Sicilian sun-dried tomatoes, Balinese Long-Pepper Bacon, Koeze Cream-Nut Peanut Butter... shipped them off to Katrina's kitchen at Vosges and let her work her magic. Try the Nightshade — with juicy, gently dried pacchino baby tomatoes, smoked paprika and dark chocolate. And then bite into the Oink — with salty, smokey bacon, sea salt and milk chocolate. What's next? Maybe the Parmigiano? Or the Peanut Butter? However you navigate the caramels, may I make one suggestion: Take your time to enjoy the delicious madness we — Mo (from Zingerman's Mail Order), Katrina (founder of Vosges) and Yours Truly — have created for you. Each 18-piece box includes 3 of each of the six sweet and savory caramels.

mailorder-able!

D. Barbero Torrone Tin
Nothing says "I like you" like a treat from Italy. The Barbero family has been making torrone — a style of nougat — since 1883 in Asti, in the Piedmont region of Italy. Their torrone is crisp and crumbly in texture and loaded with lush, toasted hazelnuts (51% of the recipe!). As a bonus, this batch was poured very thin, so it's easy to snap off a delicate piece and enjoy. The torrone comes tucked inside tissue paper and packed in a classic, covetable metal tin.

mailorder-able!

Fran's Sweet Sixteen Salt Caramel Box
Fran Bigelow was making salt caramels long before it was the cool thing to do — her Grey Salt Caramels won the NASFT award for outstanding confection back in 2003, and her Smoked Salt Caramels won in 2005. Incidentally, the Grey Salt Caramel was one of the first things I tasted when I started working at the Deli — I thought it was great then and I still do. There is something about the firmness of the caramel, the flavor of the chocolate and the bite of the salt that is irresistible. In this beautiful box, tied with a wide satin ribbon, there are eight Grey and eight Smoked Salt Caramel to enjoy!

mailorder-able!

Zingerman's Bakehouse Zzang! Original candy Bar
Zingerman's hand-made miracle is changing the way people think about the American candy bar (in part because it's made the way candy bars were made 100 years ago). A generous scoop of Spanish peanuts, fluffy peanut butter, honey nougat and rich caramel dipped in dark chocolate. Charlie Frank at the Bakehouse developed this bar (and two other really good ones, Ca$hew Cow and What the Fudge?). Joe Schneider, the man who makes the very special Stichelton cheese said that the Zzang! Original was "the best candy bar I've ever had in my life."

mailorder-able!

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