Seeing the chocolate bars that people create is one of the reasons I love working at Chocomize. I will think that I’ve tried the best combination possible (right now I’m all about milk chocolate with m & m’s, pretzels, and cinnamon toast crunch) but then someone will come along and think of something even better. Sometimes, however, people will create a chocolate bar that I just don’t get. Milk chocolate with pop rocks, bacon, edamame, and sour patch kids? I just don’t understand that. We had a pretty weird bar today: dark chocolate with beef jerky, nerds, cayenne pepper, and pop rocks. Now I don’t want to be judgmental, but seriously? I’m all about beef jerky and chocolate, but if you’re going to go down that route, I recommend trying potato chips or butter toasted peanuts. And nerds and pop rocks are amazing, but I’m not sure combining them with cayenne pepper is the best option. I guess that’s the whole point of Chocomize though, we have no idea what people would like so we just leave it up to you.

If you do want my opinion (since I can write whatever I want, I’m going to give it to you regardless) here are some combinations that I think are delicious. Pretty much every week I have a new favorite bar, but here are my top three recently discovered combinations:

1. Milk chocolate with pretzels, m & m’s, and cinnamon toast crunch.

2. Dark chocolate with strawberries, gushers, and crunchy almond croquant.

3. Dark chocolate with cinnamon and coffee beans.

Even though I think these combos are great, I’m definitely not always correct. I tried a dark chocolate bar with beef jerky and sour patch kids (it’s a surprisingly popular combination) and it was actually good…goes to show that even after a year I still don’t know everything about what ingredients go best with what.

-Nick

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July 31, 2010

Charity Profile

As a lot of you know, we donate 1% of the money you spend on your custom chocolate bars to charity. Our belief is that companies should be socially conscious and find ways to give back to the community. The coolest part of the charity program (we think at least) is that YOU get to choose the charity. Right now there are three different charities you can donate to: Doctors Without Borders, Michael J. Fox Foundation, and Action Against Hunger. We’ve raised almost $1,000 dollars for Doctors Without Borders, and in order to try to get it over that mark, I thought I’d do a charity spotlight on them.

Doctors Without Borders was founded in 1971 by a group of French Doctors who believed that EVERYONE should receive health care, regardless of their national border. As of 2007, almost 30,000 people participated with Doctors Without Borders in over 60 different countries. 80% of its funding came from private donations, which means help from regular people. The charity mostly works in areas stricken by war and poverty, places that would normally have a hard time getting access to modern medicine. The organization has received numerous awards, including the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999.

We love having them as one of our charities, and we’re extremely proud of the amount that you guys have decided to give back to them. Keep up the good work!

-Nick

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July 28, 2010

Google Loves Us

There’s been a lot going on at Chocomize. In case you didn’t hear, we were featured on CNN.com earlier today. If you haven’t checked out the story, you can read it here.

So that in itself would be pretty awesome, but people liked the story about us so much that they wanted to check out our website, and hence searched for us on Google. So many searched for us, in fact, that we ended up being one of the top searches on Google! If you check out the picture below, you’ll notice that Chocomize is number two for ‘Hot Searches’. Hot searches lists the top 40 search terms that have increased in popularity that day. Out of all the search terms in Google, Chocomize had the 2^nd greatest rise in popularity! That’s a pretty good day in our book.

 

So to all our new fans, thanks for checking us out!

-Nick

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July 27, 2010

Health Benefits of Chocolate

A new study published in European Heart Journal provided more evidence that chocolate is actually good for your health (as if you actually needed a reason to eat chocolate…) The study, which was done by the German Institute of Human Nutrition, found that people who ate a quarter of an ounce of chocolate regularly had lower blood pressure and a lower risk for strokes and heart attacks as compared to people who rarely ate chocolate. The most surprising part of this study for us was hearing that there were actually people that didn’t eat chocolate regularly.  These German’s seem to be smart, but that just can’t possibly be true…

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