The Jeweled Chocolates of Bulgari

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Spring Treat

Don't these white chocolate truffles coated with pistachios from Kee's Chocolates in New York seem like the perfect springtime snack?

{Top photo from here, bottom photo from here.}

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A Good Egg

New York Magazine's website currently features a slideshow of this year's "most creative egg-and-bunny themed sweets." Most impressive is Jacque Torres's "Sleeping Monk," a hand-crafted two-and-a-half-foot tall chocolate egg of dark chocolate shell, complete with sugar daisies and six milk chocolate bunnies.

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Easter Treats, Parisian Style

We all know about Pierre Herme's acclaimed macarons, but often overlooked are their equally enticing chocolates. For Easter, they're offering several new confections that look too amazing to eat. (Or maybe not.)

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Caviar, anyone?

Reine Astrid's Caviar de Chocolat isn't actually caviar, but tiny lumps of caviar-shaped 52% cocoa grains that you mix with water or milk to create a luscious molten hot chocolate. The caviar set comes in a beautifully embroidered linen sack, and includes a tin that's cleverly designed to look like a canister of the finest Russian Sevruga, and a mini whisk perfect for whipping it up into a decadent liquid treat. Alexis Carrington would surely approve.

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Luxury S'mores

As they say, "God is in the details," and Vosges Caramel Marshmallows are a testament to this. Fluffy marshmallows made with Madagascar bourbon vanilla beans are combined with sweet caramel and dark chocolate, and finished off with a sprinkling of Bapchi's Caramel Toffee bits and French Guérande grey sea salt. The result is simply the most decadent re-invention of the s'more that I've come across.

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La Maison Has a New Fan

Julie Lightbourn, the chef of Harbour Island's most celebrated lunchtime spot, SipSip, writes: "A guest arrived today from London bearing an insulated handbag, which held a precious box of bite-sized choccies from La Maison du Chocolat. They are loverly...and so is the reusable bag, which I adore. They don't come with a map like the Whitman Sampler, so I have no idea what I am eating--I just know that I'm in quality hands! I have been advised to consume all of the chocolates in a week or so..."

{Top image from here, center from here, bottom from here}

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Where the Queen Shops For Chocolates

Prestat was officially granted a Royal Warrant in 1975 as "Purveyors of Chocolates to the Queen," but unofficially, they were supplying chocolates to England's royal family for decades before that. It's no wonder that the shop itself is a jewel box of a space tucked away in one of London's most enchanting arcades, the Princes Arcade on Piccadilly. Their chocolates were also a favorite of author Roald Dahl, whose classic book My Uncle Oswald is all about what happens when a love potion hidden inside Prestat Truffles is unknowingly eaten by a host of 20th Century figures such as Freud, Picasso, and Nijinksy.

{Top two images by Kevin Kwan, center image from here, and bottom two images from here}

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Godiva Flagship Store (Yes, Godiva!), Harajuku, Japan

Does your local Godiva look like this? I didn't think so. Created by the Japanese design firm Wonderwall, this new two-storey shop breaks free of the brand’s traditional mold with a sleek and surrealistic interior where chocolate seems to drip from the ceiling.

{Images by Kozo Takayma}

--Jennifer

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