Online - October 06, 2006

Pimp My Chocolate

CocoaBella Custom Chocolate Boxes

Whether it’s your lunch (salad nicoise: hold the egg, tuna well done, dressing on the side) or a pair of pants (remove pockets, taper legs, add lining), you like your own spin on things.

So it goes without saying that a prepackaged sampler of Whitman’s ain’t about to suit your fancy.

Three cheers, then, for CocoaBella Chocolates. The San Francisco-based chocolatier has just relaunched a website that allows you to customize a box of chocolates. Peruse more than 60 exotic treats from around the world and click-drag your way to confection perfection.

Flavors range from rosemary caramel and strawberry balsamic to jasmine tea and bananas Foster. The sweet delivery arrives with a brochure describing each morsel, telling you exactly what you’re sinking your teeth into. So you can bid farewell to half-eaten, pinch-checked chocolates. (Oh, and by the way: gross.)

CocoaBella also automatically saves each box you create, so reordering is easy.

If only life really were like this box of chocolates.

Available online at cocoabella.com.