VALENTINE GIFTS: Fun Stuff From Jacques Torres

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February 2, 2014 at 9:25 pm · Filed under Valentine's Day

The “Do Not Disturb” sign is chocolate! Photo
courtesy Jacques Torres.

Valentine’s Day chocolate isn’t limited to the romance of Champagne truffles and chocolate hearts. Some chocolatiers have fun with it.

“Mr. Chocolate,” Jacques Torres, is one who creates the fun stuff along with the classics.

First up, a chocolate “Do Not Disturb” sign. Why would anyone want to disturb you when they could just eat the sign off the door?

It’s $10.00 at MrChocolate.com.

Puzzled over what to get a friend? This I Love U Puzzle may be a no-brainer, but it’s also a palate pleaser.

It’s $11.00.

There’s more on the menu:

Milk- and dark-chocolate covered espresso beans, a treat for coffee lovers (photo), $12.

Milk chocolate Champagne corks, filled with chocolate ganache made with Taittinger Champagne, $20. Kiss & Tell, a chocolate kissing game: Champagne-infused square bonbons have a lipstick kiss motif. Each time you remove one from the box, a message underneath tells you where (or how) you have to kiss your companion (check it out), $36. And if these don’t float your [swan] boat, there are conventional ideas from pretty boxed chocolates in red heart-shaped boxes to chocolate boxes—heart-shaped boxes of molded chocolate.		Puzzled over Valentine gifts? Here’s a solution. Photo courtesy Jacques Torres.