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scobleizer: I love @papillonc she brought me chocolate to hand...

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:00:50 -0400

I love @papillonc she brought me chocolate to hand out at SXSW from @chocri Find me and you get one free! (Taken with Instagram at Iron Works BBQ)

The @Den’s Chocolate Bomb Dance Party Adventure chocolate...

Sun, 13 Mar 2011 12:05:04 -0400

The @Den’s Chocolate Bomb Dance Party Adventure chocolate bar in action at South By Southwest! :)

Buy or create your own customized chocolate bars: http://www.createmychocolate.com/creations/SXSW-Chocolate-Bars/

Our SXSW chocolate bars are out! Follow @chocridotcom on Twitter...

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 20:59:30 -0500

The Robert Scoble Chocolate Bar

The Dennis Crowley Chocolate Bar

The Baratunde Thurston Chocolate Bar

The Gary Vaynerchuk Chocolate Bar

Our SXSW chocolate bars are out! Follow @chocridotcom on Twitter to find out where they might be available :)

fromthenotebook: I just made and named (I love that you can)...

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 14:44:39 -0500

fromthenotebook:

I just made and named (I love that you can) several chocolate bars on Chocri, which is an amazing custom chocolate bar company, but I just wish I could buy them. Ughh. :(

Someday, I WILL buy some chocolate from there.

Aww, what’s holding you back??

Hmmm, chocolate bars…

Tue, 08 Feb 2011 06:20:26 -0500

Hmmm, chocolate bars…

Make a personalized chocolate bar for your girlfriend for...

Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:12:00 -0500

Make a personalized chocolate bar for your girlfriend for Valentine’s Day. Our 2011 Valentine’s Day Gift Guide recommends the“You are sweeter than even this chocolate bar! XXX” chocolate bar for your girlfriend. It’s dark chocolate with strawberry bits, a marzipan rose and real gold flakes, and it’s delicious and pretty!

"Sizzlesparklebarkle"

Sat, 22 Jan 2011 11:16:16 -0500

“Sizzlesparklebarkle”

- One of the Top 5 Chocolate Bar Names from last week. It’s Milk and White Chocolate with Caramel Chocolate Drops, Organic Salt Pretzels, Real Gold Flakes, Peanut Butter Drops and Sizzle Rocks

Help us out! Which packaging do you like best for Mother’s...

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 11:08:00 -0500

Mother's Day Packaging Pink

Mother's Day Packaging Yellow

Help us out! Which packaging do you like best for Mother’s Day?

Give your loved ones personalized Valentine’s Day...

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 07:53:36 -0500

Give your loved ones personalized Valentine’s Day chocolate bars from chocri - like this nifty gift box with two chocolate bars for only $14.95 plus $6 shipping.

Give your loved ones personalized chocolate bars for...

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 21:46:01 -0500

Give your loved ones personalized chocolate bars for Valentine’s Day!

Personalized Chocolate Bars for the Holidays!

Sat, 11 Dec 2010 23:22:15 -0500

Christmas is in two weeks! Are you considering giving personalized chocolate bars to your loved ones? With chocri, you can either make your own, or buy an e-gift certificate, which is emailed to you only minutes after you purchase it. That way, your lucky recipient can make his or her own chocolate bars and have fun on Christmas Day! And we have them in fun holiday designs as well!

Our personalized chocolate bars make awesome holiday gifts....

Thu, 09 Dec 2010 15:10:15 -0500

Our personalized chocolate bars make awesome holiday gifts. Order today or tomorrow if you want them before Christmas Day without paying for expedited delivery.

chocri gift suggestions

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:17:45 -0500

chocri gift suggestions:

Gifts for Mom, Dad, your significant other, even the mailman.

Introducing: The chocri Recommendation Engine!

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:07:00 -0400

Say hello to something very cool - the chocri Recommendation Engine! As you design your own chocolate bar, it suggests you toppings based on:

What you choose so far (base chocolate and toppings)
What other customers ordered previously

So thousands and thousands of previous orders now inform our recommendations, that help you make a killer bar.

Which still shouldn’t keep you from experimenting and creating a bar that has never existed before (easily possible with 27 billion of different chocolate bars!) - remember the 100% money back guarantee. If you don’t like it, we give you your money back!

Play with it, it’s fun!

Fancy Food Show Finds

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:30:21 -0400

These past four days, New York hosted the Fancy Food Show. It’s exactly what it sounds like - hundreds if not thousands of food manufacturers that make specialty food come together at one huge trade show.

I was scouring the floors (looking for the perfect bacon and chocolate covered marshmallows for chocri), not without paying attention to some cool products that I saw along the way.

Here they go:

These funny popcorn kernels are COLORFUL. Indigo Blue, Ruby Red and White Gold (well, that one looks like normal corn to me). They ‘re funny, because they pop in white, but you can still see the color on the inside.

Introducing: Sushi Chocolate. This chocolate had its debut at the Fancy Food Show and everyone talked about them. It’s candy in sushi shape. Unfortunately I didn’t get to try it, so I don’t know if it tastes fishy :)

This of course makes me listen up: Build Your Own (Pumpkin Cookie, Gingerbread Man…). Cool stuff! I’ll have to get one of those in the holiday season. Nothing online though - you get the kit and then go at it. But love the use of “Build Your Own” :)

Do you know these? Apparently they’ve been available for 8 years now. I couldn’t believe it when I saw the name “Hint Mint” - who would buy something that alludes to bad-breath-without-being-aware-of-it? Not a nice association. But it seems to work - they got lots of press, and hey - I’m mentioning them too, right? Also, they have many cool packagings - I hope they consider customizing them sometime. Or at least they should look into open innovation. @hintmint on Twitter.

Ok, so this was my favorite. The bottle you see here is actually see through. It’s the water that’s jet black! Hence “Blackwater” But it tastes like water, nothing else, and is full of so-called “fulvic acid” - which has a bunch of good minerals and electrolytes. I’d need to see it next to a vitamin water, but it gave me lots of energy in a peculiar non-caffeine way, so I’d love to try it again sometime. I hope they get into many stores!

Why we donate to charity

Sat, 12 Jun 2010 23:27:00 -0400

1% of every purchase at chocri goes directly to DIV Kinder, a charity organization that helps out children on the Ivory Coast.

We never sat down and said “Let’s tie a great cause to our product” or “Let’s support a charity that will help us spread the word.” As a matter of fact, I don’t believe a lot of people buy from us because we donate, and the charity we donate to is small and is not going to bring a lot of traffic.

We do this because we believe in it. We think it’s unfair that kids have to work on a cocoa farm instead of going to school. We believe in helping the future leaders of a village/ region/ country/ our planet to be what they can be. When the two chocri founders started the business, this was something they wanted to do and that chocri enabled them to do.

Thank you for enabling us to do this.

Hershey's Create-Your-Own Chocolate Attraction

Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:47:00 -0400

I’ve gotten two emails about this today (which is wonderful), so I thought this might be of interest to all of you as well:

Tomorrow, Hershey’s opens a new attraction in their fun park, Chocolate World: the Create Your Own Candy Bar Attraction.

Sounds familiar?

Obviously, we’ve been allowing people to create their own chocolate bars since 2008 in Germany and since earlier this year in the US. Another German chocolate maker, Ritter Sport, has a store in Berlin where you can create your own chocolate bar right there and then (read a German review here). I wouldn’t be surprised if Hershey’s got some inspiration from us and them.

So what’s my reaction to this? I love it! I think this is one of the best things that could have happened to the customized candy world - a big player is endorsing it!

In the attraction, visitors will get to make their own bar for $14.95, which allows them to choose the different ingredients and pull different levers, and in the end to take their own bar home with them. I think it’s a really cute idea, and I’m expecting it to create a lot of buzz. And what’s better for us than people searching for “create your own chocolate bars” on Google? Hello! We’re here, and we’re happy to put our nearly 2 years of expertise at work to make a bar for you and deliver it to your doorstep - no pulling of levers required. :)

Thanks Hershey’s for getting the word out. I’d love to chat sometime about custom chocolate if you’re open to that - just let me know at carmen @ chocri.com :)

p.s. I used this source for image and news

jilllian: Create - Chocolate | chocri, customized chocolate...

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 13:26:03 -0400

jilllian:

Create - Chocolate | chocri, customized chocolate bars OH DEAR JESUS. THIS PLACE LETS YOU BUILD YOUR OWN CHOCOLATE BARS. YOU PICK THE KIND OF CHOCOLATE. YOU PICK FROM TONS OF TOPPINGS. SOMEONE GET ME OFF THIS THING RIGHT NOW!!!

Cookie Dough Bits don't make it on our chocolate!

Fri, 28 May 2010 16:18:34 -0400

I find great pleasure in talking about the toppings that DO make it in our toppings list. Here’s one that didn’t: Cookie Dough Bits.

Our founder took some with him to Germany from the US, and the chocri team tried them on our chocolate. But our chocolate is really really good chocolate (fair trade and organic, too), and the clash of the cheap chocolate cover around the cookie dough with the good chocolate base was just too strong.

So, not this one - but we’re investigating honey covered cashews next, and there’s never a shortage of delicious toppings :)

Mass Customization / Co-Creation

Fri, 28 May 2010 16:03:00 -0400

Just a quick note since I haven’t posted here in a while: It’s exciting what’s going on in the Co-Creation scene right now. By that I mean companies like chocri that let you design your own stuff online - not just chocolate bars but also jewelry, dress shirts, even golf clubs. I think the trend is taking off, and that’s exciting.

I write about the mass customization trend on another tumblr. Come visit me there sometime :)