With a wide range of flavors, fillings, and selections to choose from, you’d be hard pressed to find someone who doesn’t like chocolate. Whether you are looking to celebrate, commemorate, congratulate, send your condolences, or say thank you, chocolate is the answer to your gift giving needs. 

Chocolate has been around for centuries. In its early stages, chocolate was an expensive bitter drink enjoyed by the 16th-century Montuzema who noticed it helped him to please his lovers and loyal subjects. Thus, the connection between love and chocolate was born. Throughout the centuries chocolate has evolved in both flavor, form, and symbolism. Aside from love and passion, chocolate is also associated with compassion, consideration, and a happy life. A simple gift, it’s designed to make the recipient feel special and cared for.

Why is chocolate a perfect gift?

A chocolate gift can be professional or personal and intimate, making it the ideal choice for all your gift giving needs. You can send chocolate to your romantic partner, your friends, your family, your parents, your child’s teacher or coach, an employee, or your boss. Simply put, there are very few occasions chocolate will not improve! 

Chocolate creates feelings of comfort and joy while simultaneously offering a touch of decadence to the recipient’s life. While there are plenty of chocolate gift options to choose from, the best chocolate gift is something they would not buy for themselves.  

What to look for in chocolate gifts

From the mouthwatering smells to its silky-smooth texture and decadent flavors, chocolate is the ideal gift for a wide range of occasions. However, not all chocolate gifts are the same. When buying chocolate, you need to pay attention to a few specifics to ensure you are purchasing the best quality product for your gift.

Pay attention to cocoa percentages

There is a common misconception that chocolate should have added sugar. While some chocolate fillers contain sugar, the chocolate itself should not include added sugar. The flavor of quality chocolate comes from the cocoa. The higher the cocoa percentage the more natural the flavor. The highest-quality dark chocolates contain at least 65% cocoa, and anything below this level will contain too much added sugar, which overpowers the natural flavors of the coca.

Minimal ingredients

The best chocolate gifts contain natural flavors, with minimal additives and fillers, such as soy lecithin and vanillin. In fact, the only added ingredients in quality chocolate gifts are artisanal, natural ingredients to compliment the chocolate, such as raspberry or sweet cream fillings. Before you purchase your next chocolate bar, take a look at the label. If you see words like: butter oil, palm oil, or other vegetable oils it’s not the highest quality product. Mass produced chocolate companies sometimes use these, because they are cheaper than cocoa butter.

Look for certifications

Fair trade certifications ensure chocolate products go through a third-party verification for fair labor practices. Fairtrade Certified chocolates help to certify more of the profits from the cocoa returns to the farmers. While fair trade chocolates tend to be a bit more expensive than non-fair-trade products, they provide an ethical choice for your gifting needs. 

Wrapping and custom packaging

Chocolate is kept fresh by quality packaging. Well made, fresh chocolate will have a clean and shiny appearance to it. This tells you it’s been stored properly. If you notice gray or white streaks, these are signs of cocoa butter bloom or sugar bloom, which is a sign the chocolate was exposed to humidity or heat.

Flavor options and variety

Depending on the taste and preference of your gift recipient, there are many different types of chocolate to consider when gifting chocolate. However, the most common types of chocolate include dark chocolate, white chocolate, and milk chocolate.

• Dark chocolate: one of the most popular chocolates, dark chocolate is a form of chocolate containing cocoa solids and cocoa butter without the milk or butter found in milk chocolate. Depending on the quality, it typically contains 30 – 99% cocoa, has a much darker color, and a more pronounced chocolate taste.

• Milk chocolate: contains more sugar than dark chocolate, and usually only contains 10 – 40% cocoa mixed with sugar and milk. Much, much sweeter than dark or bittersweet chocolate, milk chocolate has a lighter color and less pronounced chocolate taste.

• White chocolate: is a confectionery typically made of sugar, milk, and cocoa butter, but no cocoa solids. It is pale ivory in color and lacks many of the compounds found in milk and dark chocolates. While the taste appeals to many people, it’s important to note that white chocolate isn’t really chocolate because it doesn’t contain cocoa particles. It’s just cocoa butter mixed with sugar and a little vanilla added for flavoring.

How to choose chocolate for a special occasion

As self-proclaimed chocoholics, the professional gift givers at Joi gifts have a few chocolate gift ideas for your next special occasions.

Chocolate gift ideas for him

What man doesn’t love chocolate? At Joi Gifts, we offer a wide variety of chocolates that are sure to please the male palate on their big day. From edible cars and assorted chocolate date towers to chocolate caramels and dark chocolate pralines, these chocolate gifts look as great as they taste! 

Chocolate gift ideas for her

Whether she’s 20 or 90, chocolate is one of the best gift options to enhance their special day or mark a special occasion. From chocolate covered strawberries and decadent truffles to edible chocolate heels and chocolate nail polishes, our wide selection of quality chocolates has something for everyone to enjoy. 

Chocolate ideas for a birthday

When it comes to birthday gifts, chocolate is guaranteed to delight. We recommend a lovely chocolate strawberry bouquet, a Happy Birthday chocolate gift box, chocolate covered oranges, or a classic gourmet chocolate bar. When paired with their favorite bouquet of flowers, the birthday guest of honor is sure to feel the love!

Chocolate gift ideas for kids

Children love chocolate, especially when it’s in a fun shape or design! Pinata chocolates are just as fun as they sound. You crack open the little chocolate pinata to reveal smaller chocolate goodies inside. With different themes to choose from, chocolate pinatas are as fun and exciting as they are tasty! 

Other fun chocolate gift ideas for children include:

• Ladybug Oreos
• Edible plants made with Belgian chocolate
• Chocolate covered strawberries
• Girl power chocolate box
• Cakesicles and chocolate bars 

Valentine’s Day chocolate gift ideas

Valentine’s Day is one of the best days to give chocolate. Afterall, what better way to complement your flowers or jewelry gifts than with delicious chocolates? Whether you choose to just send a box of gourmet truffles or opt for a gift set, your partner is sure to feel the love.

• Hugs and kisses bundle of Joi gifts tote set with XOXO chocolates
• Hearts and kisses colors of Valentine’s chocolate box
• Valentine truffles
• Valentine chocolate hugs and kisses
• Mr. & Mrs. Pink rose bouquet and chocolate bundle
• Valentine chocolate heart pinata 
• Pink pinata heart with bonbons
• Chocolate box cake

Holiday chocolate gift ideas

Christmas chocolates

Celebrate Christmas with yummy chocolates molded in the fashion of the season. Festive, fun, and delicious, some of our favorite Christmas chocolate gifts include:

• Mini Christmas Tree
• Book of holiday chocolates
• Christmas themed chocolate covered strawberries
• Hot chocolate bombs
• Santa truffles
• Snowman chocolate pinata
• Chocolate advent calendar
• Holiday themed truffles
• Edible bauble
• Chocolate Santa down the chimney   

Ramadan chocolates

What better way to celebrate the month of giving than by sending your loved ones the exotic flavors of Ramadan chocolates? Some of our favorite chocolate gifts to celebrate Ramadan include:

• Luxury crescent moon chocolate collection
• Chocolate covered dates and bonbon box
• Ramadan Mubarak customizable chocolate box
• Ramadan exotic chocolate arrangement
• Chocolate covered strawberries
• Gourmet caramels
• Butterfly date collection

Corporate chocolate gifts

Delicious and extravagant, chocolate is a great gift for all of your corporate gifting needs. Whether it’s a gift to celebrate a recent promotion, work anniversary, or a tasty treat for your next corporate event, you are sure to delight and impress with gourmet chocolate. A few of our favorite chocolate gifts include:

• 4 piece Diwali chocolate gift box
• Mixed fudge gift box
• Emirati Collection mixed chocolates 
• Seasons Special gift set with chocolate truffles, milk chocolate bark, and chocolate covered oreos, and scented candle
• Delight with chocolate bundles with assorted Turkish delights 
• Mixed luxury chocolate gift set with 208 pieces of assorted chocolates.

Everyone loves chocolate

Regardless of the type of celebration, chocolate gifts are guaranteed to delight. At Joi Gifts, we have a wide variety of chocolate gifts to choose from. From our popular chocolate covered strawberry bouquets and our yummy vegan truffle box, and everything in between, we have something for all of life’s celebrations. 

Need a little inspiration? We encourage you to browse our online chocolate gifts catalog to find the perfect gift!