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Top 10 Valentines Day Chocolates

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Nothing melts a heart like Valentines Day chocolates. Whether your sweetheart prefers milk chocolates, dark chocolates, nutty chocolates, or chocolate truffles, these Valentines Day confections send a message of love. And while Valentines Day chocolates may not last long, the loving sentiment and memory of the giver's thoughtfulness will.

1. Strawberries Dipped in Chocolate

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The classic sweet of seduction, this delightful selection is perfect for a Valentine's Day party... of two. A handsomely decorated white confection enrobes premium dark chocolates. Looks almost too good to eat. Almost.

2. Oreos Dipped in Chocolate for Valentine's Day

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The sweetest Oreos this year are dipped in chocolate and decorated with red candy hearts. They come packed in a red tin (a good place to preserve your Valentine's Day cards after the chocolates are gone).

3. Heart-Shaped Box of Valentine's Day Chocolates

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Let a beautiful heart-shaped box, a Valentine's Day tradition, symbolize all the sweet feelings you harbor for your love. Inside are the yummy hot fudge truffles. And to guard over the bounty, a foot-high teddy bear.

4. Chocolate Fudge Valentine's Day Cake

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Rich and creamy, this 7" diameter chocolate fudge cake is a true Valentine's Day seduction. It's made by Junior's, the famed Brooklyn bakery that also creates the best cheesecake in the city. Ingredients in the moist Valentine's Day cake with chocolate ganache and sweet fudge frosting made with Philadelphia Cream Cheese, fresh eggs, vanilla, and other goodies.

5. Valentine's Day Tower of Love

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Know someone who can't quite make up her mind? This triple-box of delights features solid milk chocolate red foil hearts, Ghirardelli 60% dark chocolate squares with raspberry filling, milk chocolate pretzels with red drizzle, milk chocolate grahams with pink drizzle and more.

6. Fannie May FM Artisan by Norman Love - Valentine's Collection

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Who better than renowned chocolatier Norman Love to create an ultra-premium line of hand-crafted chocolates for Fannie May? Love, the former pastry chef for Ritz-Carlton hotels, makes chocolates that are not only beautiful to behold but simply scrumptious. His artisanal Fannie May collection offers a choice of a 12- or 25-piece heart-shaped box that contains Swiss Milk Truffle, Birthday Cake, Candy Apple and other imaginative flavors enrobed in fine chocolate and shaped into colorful hearts. And the sturdy box is perfect for saving your valentines cards. Should you be traveling to Naples, Florida or Fort Myers, stop in at one of his freestanding Chocolate Salons for delicious chocolates, gelato, and other sweet treats. (He even makes wedding cakes.)

7. Chocolate Dipped Pretzels for Valentine's Day

Chocolate pretzels may be the perfect food gift: The crunch and salt of a pretzel combined covered with sweet chocolate. Fretzels.com specializes in hand-dipped chocolate pretzels in mouth-watering varieties including chocolate drizzle, mini chocolate chip, butterscotch chocolate, and exotics like pomegranate bellini (white chocolate infused with a champagne flavor, dusted with sugar crystals, and drizzled with sweet pomegranate flavored red chocolate). Mmm! I know someone who's hoping her sweetheart will choose this chocolate selection as part of her gift this Valentine's Day...

8. Sugar Free Chocolate Gift

If your sweetie can't eat sugar, you can still deliver a Valentines Day chocolate gift. The Vermont Country Store offers a variety of sugar-free chocolates.

9. Gourmet Chocolate Truffles for Valentine's Day

Lake Champlain is a Vermont chocolatier that makes delicious and reasonably priced truffles for Valentine's Day. Chocolate gifts include milk and dark chocolate truffles shot through with Champagne, French Roast, Grande Valencia, Legendary Dark, Vanilla Malt, White Raspberry, All Milk, and Amaretto Praline fillings.
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10. Ghirardelli Valentine's Day Gift Basket

Is too much chocolate ever enough on Valentine's Day (or any other time of year?). Overwhelm her with Valentine's day chocolates and other goodies from San Francisco's well-known chocolatier. delivered in a basket. What a super-sweet Valentine's Day gift!
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