A bit of news any mother to be would be happy about is that chocolate is actually part of the recommended diet! Not only does chocolate contain chemicals that are good for the heart, but it actually has one that makes a direct effect on making people happy!
With news like that, chocolate should then be the mandated favor at a baby shower. There wouldn’t be anyone that would refuse baby shower chocolate after this!
Chocolate being deemed the “Food for the Gods” from the time of the Aztecs, it would seem that it is a traditional gift. It’s been less recently associated with babies, with chocolate cigars given out instead of tobacco to the ladies whenever a son was born and chocolate bars recently becoming the favor of choice.
Even just the smell of chocolate has a heady effect. In fact, a large chunk of chocolate wouldn’t be necessary; a perfect bite of a luscious, creamy truffle would be just perfect. Packaged as you would a gift of jewelry, it’s a gift that will satisfy all the senses.
The American classic lover’s gift is baby shower Hershey’s Kisses, ones of the chocolate variety. Kisses can now be ordered in wrappings other than the usual silver and are made more personal with little stickers added to each one’s bottom. One other way to personalize a kiss is to replace the paper tab with one that says a message all your own.
Other food is all the better for a coating of chocolate. What more decadent gift can you imagine than dried apricots stuffed with marzipan and dipped in a bath of dark chocolate? Although, there are more mundane things that are better with this type of gilding, such as Oreos dipped in chocolate.
You can make your chocolate favor as personal as you like. There are websites that allow you to conjure up your own personal combination for a chocolate bar, as there are others where you create your personal truffle flavors. There can be nothing more unique than that.
Why not have art made in chocolate as your favor? Good chocolatiers are familiar with painting on chocolate and will be able to recreate any kind of picture for you. You can even have it computer printed onto the chocolate if you want, which is a good idea for complicated pictures like your baby’s ultrasound. Chocolatiers can also mold figures in chocolate, like a favorite brooch, for example, or just a chocolate Elmo Lollipop or a chocolate racing car.
You don’t even need to give out edible chocolates if most of the guests are watching their diets. There are candles that are chocolate-scented and look like truffles and miniature cakes, soaps that are patterned after chocolate bonbons, and a whole line of bath products that smell absolutely divine.
If you want to give out something artsy, then chocolate is something that you should take a look at. There is bound to be a chocolate artist out there that can create exactly what you want.