OK, I am really spoiling you today with this post.
I come across a great many beautiful, wondrous things pretty much every day, but very few deserve a dedicated public mention.
L’Artisan du Chocolat is one such treasure.
What you are witnessing above are their Chocolate Gems:
A bejeweled box filled with plain and passionfruit chocolate truffles that are decorated as pink gems. Pink chocolate gems filled with dark chocolate from Papua, New Guinea or passionfruit make the perfect token of love.
Some lucky girl will be the recipient of these chocolates.
Or these…
Liquid Salted Caramels
Liquid salted caramels are cocoa-dusted, small dark chocolate spheres filled with a runny caramel made from three types of sugar, butter and a hint of sel de guerande
(a lovely, unrefined French sea salt).
They do not taste salty, as we use a pinch of salt just to enhance the caramel and balance its sweetness. They are our bestsellers. Why?
Some customers say it is the combination of sugar and salt; some think it is the snappy shell and the runny center, others swear it is the sweetness of the caramel against the bitterness of the dark chocolate and cocoa powder.
Who knows? We don’t, we are just chuffed and proud that they fly off our shelves faster than we can produce them!
South Sea Chocolate Pearls
Exceptional and rare dark chocolate truffle with a golden white South Sea pearl lustre. When we fall in love with a chocolate, we feel a duty to show it to the world in its best light.
South Sea pearls in nature are the rarest pearls, casting a glow like no other.
It takes decades to match and assemble these gems, just as it takes decades to plant, harvest, blend and process the best cocoa beans to form the most exquisite chocolates.
To honor these magical cocoa beans, we have crafted a dark chocolate truffle made from our blend, covered with a very thin layer of white chocolate and edible pearlescent pigments. These truffles are of breathtaking beauty and taste: intense with smoky and earthy notes.
Moroccan Mint O’s
Mint O’s are dark, minty discs that are incredibly thin and filled with an intense chocolate center and infused with fresh mint leaves. We only use fresh mint from Morocco (known for the best mint teas) that we select at New Covent Garden market the morning of production.
When you eat one of our mints, you feel like walking in a garden of fresh mint plants on a summer day, not like sucking on toothpaste. Each chocolate is decorated with a Moroccan pattern that originates from serving dishes traditionally offered to guests and means, “it is great, good and a blessing to offer someone the best you can provide.”
Brazilian Chocolate Bar with Ginger
Who can resist a gourmet chocolate bar that’s infused with zippy ginger?
Seriously… Imagine this: Chocolate + Ginger. What combination could be better?!
Chocolate Tapas
Eight small “tapas” portions of chocolates with fruits and nuts.
An evening out for Spanish tapas is something people look forward to with genuine excitement. They like to try a little bit of this and that without having to order huge portions.
We were inspired to create an exciting evening in with chocolate tapas: portions of different chocolates with fruits and/or nuts - orange peels, lemon peels, assorted nougats, scorched almonds, nougatine, candied ginger, coated coffee beans and rochers.
And on and on L’Artisan du Chocolat goes with tempting and taunting you into wild chocolate abandon.
If you’re a woman reading this and you’re not moved to try these chocolates, then I’m sorry to say, but you’re not really a girl. 
