A gift card to a premium market enables recipients to try new things or buy luxury items like artisan cheeses.

Many of us our space-challenged at home, cramming those gift sweaters and bath products into already crammed drawers and closets. Unlike most gifts, which require space to store, a gift card can be spent and consumed in the same day.

You can purchase gift cards in-store, of course. Some retailers, like Whole Foods, let you buy the cards online as well, with the option to send them digitally with a personalized holiday message.

The photo is actually the 2014 limited edition holiday gift card from Whole Foods.

Solved: what to get your favorite cook or foodie.

Go no further than John & Kira’s. The dynamic duo of artisan chocolate can always b relied upon to handcraft memorable confections that are guaranteed to please.

For Chocolate Sophisticates: Chocolate-Dipped Figs

One of our favorite treats anywhere, the chocolate covered, ganache-filled figs are as good as it gets The figs are grown on a small family farm in Spain, then filled by John & Kira with a silky smooth, whiskey-infused Valrhona dark chocolate ganache. They are then enrobed in 62% dark chocolate: perfection!

A 12-piece box is $34.95; a 6-piece box is $24.50.

Get yours at JohnAnd Kiras.com.

Don’t want figs? Check out the Happiest Of Holidays gift box with ten different infused ganache fillings.

Almost too cute to eat, hand-painted ladybug chocolates in red and green are filled with flavored ganache: raspberry in the red ladybugs and garden mint in the green.

A nine-piece box is $29.95, a five-piece box is $14.95 and a three-piece box is $10.00.

Another gift ideas is Holiday Marshmallow Heaven, chocolate-enrobed marshmallows with mint ganache, raspberry ganache, caramel and plain.

The handsome gift boxes are lovely “keepers,” and the letter-pressed card is another expression of John & Kira’s artisan approach.

Anyone who gets a taste will become a fan!

One of the tastiest new things we’ve tried this holiday season are the chocolate-covered pretzel clusters from Pretzel Perfection.

The pretzels are gluten free, and made by a company that specializes in gluten-free flavored pretzel sticks—Chipotle BBQ, Garlic Herb, Lemon Toffee, Stoneground Mustard and Tomato Basil—and delicious for everyone.

The sweet variations are seasonal specialties, delightful pretzel stick and chocolate clusters in:

 
At just $6.99 for a handsome container, there’s still time to order a slew of them for last-minute holiday gifting.

Get yours at PretzelPerfection.com.