![]() ![]() Keeping with his mission, we worked with the team at Cloudforest to create a supremely decadent Ecuadorian chocolate ice cream. Founder Sebastian Cisneros created Cloudforest Chocolate with the goal of exploring unconventional chocolate flavor combinations and celebrating his Ecuadorian heritage through chocolate. ![]() ![]() The refreshing tropical sherbet highlights the floral notes in the chocolate, creating a fruit and chocolate combination that will leave you swooning.Īt last, we return to our home turf to work with the chocolate artisans at Portland’s Cloudforest. Inspired by their dedication to maintaining the purity of their ethically-sourced ingredients, we joined forces with the team at Exquisito to create Exquisito Guanabana Stracciatella– a delicate guanabana sherbet striped with a ribbon of Exquisito’s mind-melting 73% Colombian dark chocolate. Exquisito strives to honor the natural flavor of cocoa beans in their handcrafted treats, and shows off their talent for doing so through their larger-than-life collection of exquisite chocolate products. But nothing beats a beautifully decorated box filled with a selection of sweet treats that you can share (or not) with the one you love.Now off to Miami, where Exquisito founder Carolina Quijano and her crew of expert chocolatiers spend their days crafting handmade chocolates from sustainably-produced cocoa beans. Nowadays, it seems like you can get any food in the holiday’s iconic heart shape. Over the next century, the idea of the Valentine’s Day box of chocolates has been remixed, updated and revamped. Cadbury's Valentine's Day boxes were an instant hit and from then on, heart-shaped boxes of chocolates became part of the holiday's custom. The boxes were so ornately designed with Cupids, hearts, roses and romantic imagery that people often kept the boxes long after the holiday, using them to save heartfelt mementos and love notes. So, using the excess cocoa butter, Cadbury made a new variety of "eating chocolates" and, in 1868, decided to sell the product in heart-shaped boxes marketed as the perfect gift for Valentine’s Day. But the Cadbury brothers were presented with another chocolate – what should they do with the unused cocoa butter that was extracted from the cocoa bean?īack in 1861, the same year Richard and George took over the Cadbury business, the company developed Fancy Boxes, which is exactly what it sounds like – beautifully decorated boxes filled with chocolates. In 1866, they developed a unique process that removed the cocoa butter from the cocoa bean, resulting in a smoother, more pleasant drinking chocolate experience. Richard Cadbury and his brother George Cadbury took over the business in 1861, and they were on a mission to improve upon the drinking chocolate recipe.ĭoes chocolate taste better when it comes out of heart-shaped box? - Photo courtesy of iStock / ddukang In England, the Cadbury family were not only famous for selling tea, coffee and drinking chocolates they also gained prominence and wealth throughout the 1800s with their chocolate innovations. During the 1830s, people began celebrating Valentine’s Day with cards, gifts and small tokens of affection – and the imagery of hearts, roses, and Cupid became linked to the occasion. Though Valentine’s Day and the link between Saint Valentine and love was first referenced in a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 1382 poem "Parlement of Foules," it wasn’t until the Victorian era when the holiday became commercialized.
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