Every February, we go hard celebrating Valentine’s Day. Not because of that “love” nonsense, but because of what truly matters: chocolate. So, here’s a collection of the best luxury chocolates you can get this year.
Flowers are hard to keep alive and teddy bears never love us like we love them, but chocolate? Chocolate is a beautiful thing, and February 14 has chocolatiers pumping out deals and specialty boxes of the best Valentine’s Day chocolates like there’s no tomorrow.
The prices on these luxury chocolates might be a little higher than the stuff you find in your pillowcase of Halloween candy. But the global flavors, like rosé champagne and sesame nougat, mixed with expert crafting scratch a different itch.
Whether you’re looking to surprise a special someone or treat yourself to some treats, the options are endless. Valentine’s is a great time to splurge on something higher end. In case you want to change things up from a handful of loose chocolate chips at midnight. Or add onto it. It’s the month of chocolate, after all.
25 Best Valentine’s Day Chocolates
1. Vosges Chocolate Crush Truffle Collection, $125
Are we used to paying in the triple digits for chocolate? Yes, but only after a rough break-up. Or on a Wednesday night. But, this collection of 26 high-end candies and four love notes is worth every penny.
It contains two to three pieces of each limited-edition truffle, with flavors ranging from lemon chiffon to mai tai to gianduia. They’re beautifully smooth, spectacularly decorated, and might make you regret buying them for your loved one, who is now paying way more attention to chocolate than you.
Available at Vosges
2. Vosges Champagne Dessert Cups, $30
Have you ever asked “Honey, would you like a glass of champagne or some chocolate?” only to hear the response “Why would you make me choose? Don’t you love me? I’m leaving you.” We hate that.
Thankfully, Vosges combined the two in the form of mini dark chocolate flutes filled with a champagne-infused ganache, then topped with dried strawberries. It’s a whole romantic evening in one bite.
Available at Vosges
3. La Maison Du Chocolate Passion Vibrante, $20
Passion (the feeling) is fine. Passion (the fruit) is better.
And so, we thank La Maison Du Chocolate for this dual-colored bar, featuring dark chocolate with wafer biscuit opposite tangy passionfruit. This counts as eating fruit, right?
Available at La Maison Du Chocolate
4. La Maison Du Chocolate Tablette Chocolat Blanc Riz Souffle, $20
We know there are probably some people out there saying that white chocolate isn’t even chocolate, but we can’t hear them over our yummy noises. And the crunch from the crispy puffed rice in this white chocolate vanilla bar.
Available at La Maison Du Chocolate
5. La Maison Du Chocolate Jolika Bouchée
When we Googled, our research didn’t illuminate much about this chocolate bar, but it’s described by La Maison Du Chocolate as having an interior of fluffy pistachio and almond, with an exterior of dark chocolate. Needless to say, we’re in.
Available at La Maison Du Chocolate
6. Compartes Berry Bouquet, $83.95
We wouldn’t be mad if someone gave us a mass of straight berries, but combining it with chocolate? That’s the shortcut to our hearts.
This box is limited edition, and features berry clusters in vegan dark chocolate for your plant-based friends and chocolate-lovers alike. The bright red berries studding the top ensure a “wow” feeling from the minute you open the box to the moment you suck the last freeze-dried fruit crumb off of its wrapper.
Available at Compartes
7. Compartes Grandmaster Chocolate Chess Pieces Set, $300
Chess is a game of strategy, and our strategy is to buy someone’s love with chocolate. Tickets on sale to our relationship seminar soon.
This chocolate chess set and board is a real showpiece, featuring chocolate made by hand daily at the Compartes kitchen. It is sure to win the heart of any chess and chocolate lover around. If only it were to scale with that giant Harry Potter chess game.
Available at Compartes
8. Compartes Chocolate Covered Fruit Assortment, $74.95
There are plenty of chocolates involving fruit out there, but this assortment is heavier on the fruit than most. It contains a selection of apricot, pineapple, orange, peach, pears, and dates dipped in dark and milk chocolate.
Between the bright freshness of fruit and the richness of chocolate, getting our servings of fruit in has never been tastier.
Available at Compartes
9. Jacques Torres Sweet Love Bonbons, $45
Anyone who’s ever seen Nailed It! knows that Jacques Torres is incredibly wholesome. Anyone who hasn’t should go fix that. Also, he said something really nice about our peanut butter cookies once.
Jacques is not only a master at finding something to compliment in an underbaked trainwreck of a cake, but he’s also a master of sweets. He offers this assortment of chocolates integrated with flavors like rosé champagne, raspberry, and hibiscus with orange, as well as a white chocolate plaque smack in the middle.
If that’s not sweet enough, he dedicates the collection to his wife. Awwwww.
Available at Jacques Torres
10. Neuhaus Love Letter Box, €27.00
Man, would we like snail mail more if it came full of chocolates instead of reminders that we somehow owe everybody on earth a lot of money.
This dream of a letter contains 15 total chocolates, made of a mix of three rose-inspired white, milk, and dark chocolate hearts.
Available at Neuhaus
11. Neuhaus Chocolate Cocktails, $74.90
This gift box contains 25 liquor-filled pralines. They’re so legit that you have to confirm you’re over 21 years old just to look at the page.
The assortment features chocolates infused with gin, rum, sake, vodka, and whisky, and are guaranteed to taste better than dumping your pack of Swiss Miss into a warm beer. We still can’t believe that wasn’t a hit.
Available at Neuhaus
12. Recchiuti Sepia Box, $32
The makers of this box claim that sepia is the color of nostalgia, which definitely hits home. As soon as we saw the word, we remembered how cool we felt when we found out we could add a Sepia filter to our Motorola Razr pictures.
Good ol’ days aside, this collection is a current-day delicacy, containing flavors like sesame nougat, banana caramel, and honeycomb. Not quite the flavors of our childhood, but nothing that can’t be fixed by a Capri Sun pouch.
Available at Recchiuti
13. Richart Initiation, $54
The name Initiation had us a little excited that it would come with an initiation to a secret society. Then we remembered we’re helping you find the best luxury boxes of chocolate.
This assortment is meant to introduce future chocolate connoisseurs into the world of tastings. It contains 16 filled chocolates and 16 squares of dark and milk chocolates, and it’s a great way to send a bat signal to Skull and Bones.
Available at Richart
14. Richart Sweet Love Chocolate and Macaron Box, $61
One of the only ways to make a box of chocolate better is to add cookies to it, especially if they’re macaron cookies. This assortment contains nine chocolates and 12 mini-macarons.
The chocolates come in flavors such as passionfruit and white chocolate, vanilla ganache, and dark chocolate ganache. It’s perfect for everyone – from those who are fancy enough to pronounce “macaron” the real French way, to those who like them because they feel like they’re eating Spongebob’s Pretty Patties.
Available at Richart
15. Amore Di Mona 16 Piece Assortment, $24.50
Amore Di Mona prides itself on creating products that are all natural, plant-based, common allergen-free, and low glycemic, but still luxurious and delicious. Their 16 piece assortment contains expertly crafted flavors of caffe, frutta, maple, and sel mignardise.
Available at Amore Di Mona
16. Burdick Chocolate Mice, $38
We’re not sure why Burdick decided to make chocolate mice their signature, but we’ve never been more inclined to eat these little creatures.
These tasty vermin are made of dark chocolate ganache, flavored either with orange, espresso, or cinnamon and port wine, and covered in either dark, milk, or white chocolate.
Available at Burdick
17. Burdick Chocolate Covered Marzipan, $45
For almond fans, few things are better than marzipan. Except maybe financial security and being surrounded by a good support system. But the former you can buy covered in chocolate, so it gets huge bonus points.
Burdick’s box of chocolate-covered marzipan includes plain almond, chocolate-coconut, coffee, pistachio, and raspberry. And they’re vegan! Yeah, the marzipan is definitely the option worth pursuing.
Available at Burdick
18. Burdick Lunar New Year Assortment, $34
February brings Valentine’s Day, but it also brings the Lunar New Year, and Burdick gives a way to celebrate both with chocolates that featuring ingredients popular in China, South Korea, and Vietnam.
The international flavors include black sesame, red bean, gochujang, and plum wine. It’s certainly cheaper than a trip to Asia, and the sugar crash won’t be nearly as bad as the jet lag.
Available at Burdick
19. Knipschildt Signature Collection, $34
We thought we lost our marbles, but it looks like Knipschildt just borrowed them to serve as inspiration for the gorgeous swirls on these bonbons.
The medium signature collection includes twelve beautiful chocolates, from flavors including classics like mint and dark chocolate to wildcards like rosemary-infused caramel with mushroom salt or Madagascar-pickled green peppercorn with black cyprus lava salt. Between the designs and the flavors, neither the eyes nor the mouth will ever be bored of this selection.
Available at Knipschildt
20. Dandelion Postcard Collection, $75
Sometimes we want to travel the world, and all that stands in our way is that it’s incredibly expensive, hugely time-consuming, and makes it really hard to abide by our 9pm bedtime.
With Dandelion’s postcard collection, however, we can have global flavors in the comfort of our homes (and our sweatpants). The set contains flavors from all over the globe, including hazelnut baklava from eastern Europe, Chinese five spice peanut, Tonka bean caramel from Brazil, and strawberry Earl Grey caramel from England. It’s like the UN, but for your mouth.
Available at Dandelion
21. Melissa Coppel Hand-painted Bonbons, $80
Melissa Coppel heard you eat with your eyes first, and ran with that. Her stunning bonbons are hand-painted to leave a thin, glossy coating on each of the 24 pieces included in the box.
It’s almost unfair that they look this good, and also come in flavors as delicious as peanut butter ganache with raspberry jelly, crème brûlée, or espresso with croissant duja. Maybe no person can have it all, but it looks like chocolate can. Another reason why dessert > humans.
Available at Melissa Coppel
22. Louis Sherry Artist Series Tins, $42.50
Where Louis Sherry sets itself apart from the competition is the selection of boxes that they offer to transport their delicious treats. For those that believe you should judge a book by its cover and a box of chocolates by its tin, Louis Sherry’s artist series tins are a must-have.
Customers can select from designers of various backgrounds and artistic styles, so that the outside can match the beauty of the 12 decorative chocolates inside. With bonbon shapes including seashells and crowns, the ornate candies come in flavors like pistachio di bronte, passionfruit kumquat, and flor de cana rum.
Available at Louis Sherry
23. Fortnum & Mason Milk and Dark Chocolate Rose and Violet Creams, $50.68
If you’ve ever watched Bake-Off and thought “wow, those floral flavors really sound delicious, but I would never make those for myself,” you’re not alone.
But Fortnum & Mason has heard you. And they’re here for you. They offer their signature English Creams in rose and violet, flavored with natural flower oils, so that you don’t have to worry about Paul Hollywood telling you that your bakes taste like Grandma’s bathwater.
Available at Fortnum & Mason
24. Vegan Treats Fatally Yours: Birds of a Feather Chocolate Box, $59.95
It’s as if Hot Topic grew up and branched off to start a chocolate business. Charmingly goth and proudly vegan, this Fatally Yours box contains flavors like cookie butter, roasted pecan gianduja, and white chocolate strawberry pistachio praline.
The box is six pieces in total, and includes classic Valentine’s shapes like a heart to remind your special someone you love them, and a skull to remind them they’re mortal.
Available at Vegan Treats
25. MarieBelle Cupid Valentine’s Ganache Box, $35
We’re pretty sure Cupid isn’t dressed enough to land a traditional job these days, so it’s a good thing he got in on the ground floor of Valentine’s Day.
His ganache box from MarieBelle features nine chocolates, each adorned with a different vibrant image that’s classic but fresh at the same time. The same goes for the flavors, which range from milk chocolate or caramel to lemon or passionfruit.
Available at MarieBelle
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