OUR TOP 10 LISTS

10. Chocolate Stilton

You know you’ve really got a problem when you need chocolate even with your cheese course. I’m not talking about cream cheese brownies; anyone can, and should, eat those. I'm talking about chocolate combined with real serious stinky cheeses, like Roquefort.

To your rescue are a number of professionals, ranging from a British supermarket chain (Tesco), who put swirls of chocolate right in their Stilton. I’m also talking about the elite French chocolatier Jean-Paul Hevin, who fills his truffles with options like goat cheese, Roquefort and Pont-l'Évêque. Go ahead, have one.

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Author: Kate N Krader, FOOD & WINE Restaurant Editor

Author: Kate N Krader FOOD & WINE Restaurant Editor

9. Chocolate Fondue Wrap

Sometimes chocolate addiction means it’s not enough to eat a few pounds of it. You have to keep going, slather it all over yourself. If you’re at that point, head directly to the Chocolate Spa in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

Among their signature chocolate treatments: Whipped Cocoa Bath, Chocolate Fondue Wrap, and Chocolate-Covered Strawberry, “A signature chocolate-themed treatment featuring a Strawberry Parfait Scrub.”

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Check out delicious chocolate desserts from Food and Wine

Author: Kate N Krader, FOOD & WINE Restaurant Editor

8. Chocolate Skyscrapers

Naked candy male models might be too much for some chocolate addicts, so let’s move on to loftier themes. Like the world’s largest chocolate sculpture. Pastry chef Alain Roby used 2,200 pounds of chocolate to create the 20 foot, 8 inch model that combines influences of the Empire State Building, Rockefeller Center and the Chrysler Building. (We can call it the chocolate Rocka-Chrya-pire building.)her.

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Check out these irresistible chocolate cakes from Food and Wine

Author: Kate N Krader, FOOD & WINE Restaurant Editor

7. Chocolate Room, Part II

It’s a very good question: Who decided to give Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld 10 tons of chocolate to create a hotel room? (The answer is Magnum ice cream.) If he was inspired by the Lithuanian model, the influences are subtle.

Instead of a sitting room, he created The Magnum Chocolate (bedroom) Suite. Instead of a white cat sleeping on a chair, he sculpted his favorite male model Baptiste Giabiconi lounging in his undies on a bed eating a chocolate popcicle. I wonder where this chocolate room trend is going next.

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Everyone loves chocolate chip cookies! Check out these recipes from Food and Wine

Author: Kate N Krader, FOOD & WINE Restaurant Editor

6. Chocolate Room, Part I

If you happened to be in Lithuania last Valentine's Day, you would have gone to the mall and seen a whole room made of chocolate. It took local food artists 661 pounds of dark and white chocolate to construct the traditional sitting room which included a vase of flowers, tea cups and champagne flutes and a white cat sitting on a chocolate chair. A few weeks later, when they broke the room down, they were nice enough to give out pieces of the chocolate.

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The best chocolate chip cookie EVER from Food and Wine

Author: Kate N Krader, FOOD & WINE Restaurant Editor

5. Chocolate NFL statues

Some sculptors can’t be confined to one medium. Jim Victor seems to prefer working in butter for pieces like his homage to Michelangelo, ‘David As Surfer.’ But he’s also marvelously adept at chocolate: those works include a life-size bust of Emmitt Smith as an NFL Hall of Fame Inductee. He’s also done a full-size chocolate race car at Chicagoland Speedway and posed driver Kyle Bush next to it; fittingly, it’s the Mars M&M car.

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Author: Kate N Krader, FOOD & WINE Restaurant Editor

4. Chocolate covered smelts

Where are all the rule-breaking dessert fiends, the ones willing to try unlikely combinations, like, for instance, chocolate and fish. It turns out they’re in Japan. Or at least that’s where to find a company, Shato Shokuhin that’s willing to make them. Waka Choco consists of deep-fried smelts (little fish that aren’t unlike sardines) coated with chocolate. There are three flavors, so if you don’t like the smelt and sweet chocolate, there’s always smelt and white chocolate and, of course, smelt and good old strawberry chocolate.

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Author: Kate N Krader, FOOD & WINE Restaurant Editor

3. Chocolate haute couture

The 14th Annual New York Chocolate Show came and went in earlier in November, but its left behind alluring pictures from the fashion show. The theme was Broadway and the outfits, designed by pastry chefs like Zac Young of NYC’s Flex Mussels, were made from you know what.

So whether you’re going for a head-to-toe Cirque du Chocolat look, or the racier Gypsy Rose Lee chocolate bra you now have a picture you can point to, and say, ‘that’s exactly what I want.’

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Get in the holiday spirit with these Christmas cookies from Food and Wine

Author: Kate N Krader, FOOD & WINE Restaurant Editor

2. Chocolate Squares Extravagant Necklace

Some chocolates look too pretty to eat (of course the reverse, about ugly chocolates, is also true). And then there are the chocolates you should only eat if you can metabolise broken glass.

Case in point is Marco Polo Designs whose chocolate jewelry design includes pretty glass necklaces with very appetizing looking chocolate squares. In fact, it’s made with Venetian glass, Swarovski crystals and 24 k gold, so bite into it at your own risk.

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Author: Kate N Krader, FOOD & WINE Restaurant Editor

1. La Madeline au Truffe

If you think that very pricey chocolates are the best way to feed an addiction then boy are you in luck. Connecticut-based Knipschildt Chocolatier sells these truffles for $250. Per piece. That’s because each piece is centered on a French truffle (the elite mushroom, not the chocolate), then covered with a truffle oil-flavored ganache.

Here’s good news: At approximately $125/ounce, it’s cheaper than the street price of some drugs. If you feel like someone should be paying you $250 to try a mushroom-filled chocolate, let’s move on.

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Author: Kate N Krader, FOOD & WINE Restaurant Editor