Chocolate Christmas Gifts

I think that the best Christmas gifts are chocolate.  I have had a life long love affair with this tasty treat.  I have never had a chocolate that I didn’t like.

I received a lot of Christmas gifts last year, but my favorites were chocolate.  My husband was right on the mark when he bought me a tin of Mrs. Fields cookies and brownies.  I served them at a tea party I had on Christmas Eve.

I have given my little sister some wonderful chocolate Christmas gifts over the years.  She loves chocolate as much as me.  Last year, I sent her dessert bars in three flavors:  chewy fudge, zesty lemon and raspberry blueberry currant.

My boss appreciates Christmas gifts from employees even though she doesn’t celebrate Christmas.  She likes chocolate, so I sent her Turtle Bars from Solomon’s Gourmet Cookies.  She is Jewish and these treats were certified Kosher by the Chicago Rabbinical Council.

I sent my cousins containers of brownies for Christmas gifts year before last.  They are still talking about them.  Each tin had a pound and a half of brownies that were the richest tasting brownies that they had ever eaten.

Finding exceptional chocolate recipes has been a challenge.  I like to order from online companies when I am sending Christmas gifts because they do all of the shipping for me.  For people in the same geographical area as me, I like to make chocolate creations in my own kitchen.

I have Christmas gifts on my mind starting in late October.  I make lists of who I want to give chocolate gifts to and what they might like.  I have made biscotti for neighbors a few times and I like the way it comes out.

Biscotto makes great Christmas gifts.  A good biscotti recipe is not very sweet and compliments coffee or tea.  I have found that chocolate biscotto pleases just about every palate!  It seems like most of my friends enjoy biscotti with gourmet coffee.

My sister had a Christmas Day wedding about ten years ago.  I decided that one of her Christmas gifts from me was going to be the groom’s cake for her wedding.  I made her a chocolate cheesecake with molded chocolate roses.

My niece shares my love of chocolate.  She gave me a list of Christmas gifts she wanted the year she was ten and I just had to laugh out loud.  She had listed twenty different things and half of them were chocolate!

I hosted the family for Christmas dinner last year.  After we opened our Christmas gifts, I served a gourmet chocolate mousse for dessert.  I had worked perfecting it for the occasion and everyone loved it.

I do think that making extra Christmas gifts comes in handy when you have a lot of visitors during December.  I make up a batch of chocolate Christmas candies and have them already wrapped to give to people that drop by.  I think that maybe some people just drop by my house during the holidays because they know that they will get some yummy chocolate to eat.