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Designer Chocolate:
Known as the food of the gods, nearly two-thirds of women eat chocolate candy or desserts weekly. Chocolate surely is a trend that has taken hold and has the masses clamoring for more; and the latest trend is not just any old chocolate... it's designer chocolate.

Scrumptious, smooth, creamy, rich, delectable and indulgent are just some of the adjectives often used to describe chocolate, the delightful substance of which the average American consumes 10 pounds each year. A cultural pastime and a sweet-tooth favorite, chocolate's taste and texture incite passion unlike any other confection. From hot chocolate to truffles to cookies to cakes, chocolate is well established as a substance Americans love to love. It makes some of the best gifts for just about any occasion.

Making Designer Chocolate:
Especially passionate for chocolate are chocolatiers, those who create fine chocolate with masterpiece-like artistry. Here's how they do it:

Chocolate's pleasure comes from the painstaking process that yields the finest varieties. Chocolate begins with the seeds from inside the fruit of the cacao tree, native to regions that include South America, Africa and Indonesia. These seeds are known as cocoa beans.

The beans are fermented and dried in the sun before they are ready to go to the chocolate maker. The chocolate maker roasts the beans, sorting and blending beans from different locales to create their own distinct flavors. Next, the beans are winnowed, a process that removes the meat, also known as the nib, of the cocoa bean from the shell. The meat or nib is then ground into a substance called chocolate liquor, which is pure, unsweetened chocolate.

Much talent is required to turn this chocolate liquor into fanciful and delectable treats. The chocolate maker adds sugar, flavoring (such as vanilla) and milk (found in milk chocolate) according to his or her own special recipe. Then conching occurs; this is done with a special machine that blends ingredients. The process can take from two to six days. Next, chocolate is tempered. This involves slowly heating the chocolate then slowly cooling the chocolate in order to let the cocoa butter solidify without separating from the rest of the ingredients. The exact processes and ingredients used by each chocolate maker determine the texture, quality and taste of the final product.

Ingredients: BLUEBERRY: Sugar, enriched bleached cake flour (bleached wheatflour, niacin, iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), unsaltedbutter (cream, natural flavor), cultured sour cream (pasteurized cream,milk, non-fat milk solids, food starch-modified, sodium citrate, sodiumphosphate, guar gum, carrageenan, potassium sorbate (preservative),cultures, natural flavors), whole eggs, sweetened dried blueberries(blueberries, sugar, sunflower oil), blueberry pastry filling (corn syrup,blueberries, water, food starch-modified, contains 2% or less of citricacid, salt, propylene glycol, artificial flavor, potassium sorbate(preservative), sodium benzoate (preservative), blueberry puree(blueberries), natural flavor, baking powder (corn starch, bicarbonate ofsoda, sodium aluminum sulfate, acid phosphate of calcium), salt.CINNAMON PECAN: Sugar, enriched bleached cake flour (bleached wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), cultured sour cream (pasteurized cream, milk, non-fat milk solids, food starch-modified, sodium citrate, sodium phosphate, guar gum, carrageenan, potassium sorbate (preservative), cultures, natural flavors), unsalted butter (cream, natural flavor), whole eggs, brown sugar, pecans, cinnamon, baking powder (corn starch, bicarbonate of soda, sodium aluminum sulfate, acid phosphate of calcium), pure vanilla extract, artificial flavor, salt.DOUBLE CHOCOLATE RASPBERRY: Sugar, enriched bleached cake flour (bleached wheat flour.niacin, iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), cultured sour cream (pasteurized cream, milk, non-fat milk solids, food starch-modified, sodium citrate, sodium phosphate, guar gum, carrageenan, potassium sorbate(preservative), cultures, natural flavors), unsalted butter (cream, natural flavor), chocolate syrup (high fructose corn syrup corn syrup, sugar, water, coc0a, contains 2% or less of potassium sorbate (preservative), salt, mono and diglycerides, polysorbate 60 (emulsifier), xanthan gum, artificial vanilla flavoring), whole pasteurized eggs, red raspberry filling (water, sugar, red raspberries, food starch-modified, citric acid, potassium sorbate (preservative), sodium propionate (preservative), sodium benzoate (preservative), salt, FD & Red #40, artificial flavor), individually quick frozen red raspberries (red raspberries, water, sugar), semi-sweet chocolate (sugar, chocolate (cocoa butter, milk fat, soya lecithin (emulsifier), salt, artificial vanilla flavoring, cocoa(processed with alkali), natural flavor (contains sulfides, monosodium glutamate, hydrolyzed proteins (vegetable/animal), BHT, tocopherols, chocolate derivatives, traces of soybean product), baking powder (corn starch, bicarbonate of soda, sodium aluminum sulfate, acid phosphate of calcium), pure vanilla extract, salt.WHITE CHOCOLATE RASPBERRY: Sugar, enriched bleached cake flour (bleached wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), cultured sour cream (pasteurized cream, milk, non-fat milk solids, food starch-modified, sodium citrate, sodium phosphate, guar gum, carrageenan, potassium sorbate (preservative), cultures, natural flavors), unsalted butter (cream, natural flavor), whole eggs, red raspberry pastry fling (water, sugar, red raspberries, food starch-modified, contains two percent or less of: citric acid, potassium sorbate (preservative), red 40 and artificial flavor), white chocolate coating (sugar, hydrogenated palm kernel oil, non-tat dry milk solids, soya lecithin (an emulsifier), salt, natural and artificial flavors), frozen raspberries (red raspberries, water, sugar), baking powder (corn starch, bicarbonate of soda, sodium aluminum sulfate, acid phosphate of calcium), pure vanilla extract, salt, artificial flavor. ZESTY LEMON: sugar, enriched bleached cake flour (bleached wheat flour, niacin, iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), cultured sour cream (pasteurized cream, milk, nonfat milk solids, food starch modified, sodium citrate, sodium phosphate guar gum, carrageenan, potassium sorbate (preservative), cultures, natural flavors), unsalted butter (cream, natural flavor), whole eggs, natural and artificial flavor, lemon peel, baking powder (corn starch, bicarbonate of soda, sodium aluminum sulfate, acid phosphate of calcium), pure vanilla extract, salt