How to Celebrate National Chocolate Day Oct 28th 2024

Published on September 3rd, 2024

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW TO OBSERVE NATIONAL CHOCOLATE DAY

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One of our dreams is entering a chocolate world of pure imagination à la Willy Wonka — nibbling on chocolate while floating down a chocolate lake. While we won’t be touring Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory on National Chocolate Day, we do have the golden ticket to making yours — and our — chocolate dreams come true.

Whether it’s chocolate bars, creamy hot chocolate, or sweet chocolate covered strawberries, we love every kind of chocolate. Here’s everything you need to know to celebrate chocolate.

When is National Chocolate Day?

Mexico might be the birthplace of chocolate, but it was America that created a holiday to celebrate all things related to the roasted cocoa bean. National Chocolate Day is October 28. Trade organization National Confectioners Association created the food holiday to promote the chocolate industry.

Mark your calendar. Additional chocolate holidays include:

January 31: National Hot Chocolate Day
June 7: National Chocolate Ice Cream Day
July 7: World Chocolate Day
September 13: International Chocolate Day
December 28: National Chocolate Candy Day

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How to Observe National Chocolate Day

There are many ways to celebrate National Chocolate Day. The most obvious way to celebrate is by eating chocolate. Chocolate is used to create many of the world’s most popular food and beverages, such as:

Brownies
Cocoa, drinking chocolate, hot chocolate, and mocha
Chocolate cakes
Chocolate chip cookies
Chocolate pies
Chocolate puddings
Ice cream toppings like chocolate syrup and fudge

You could also use National Chocolate Day as motivation to visit a local chocolatier, play games like Candy Crush Saga and Candy Land, or try making your own chocolate.

Use this sweet day as an opportunity to try something new, whether that’s nibbling on a piece of ruby chocolate, incorporating chocolate into savory dish like a rich mole sauce, or trying a new treat with chocolate like Brigadeiros (bri-ga-DAY-ro), Brazilian fudge candy.

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Steve Asbaty started The Chocolate Covered Co. in 2009 in Totowa, New Jersey. Soon, he was covering pretty much everything with chocolate.

Whatever you crave, chances are The Chocolate Covered Co. has it covered, smothered, or drizzled in rich Belgian chocolate. The team dunks everything from fresh fruits like strawberries and bananas to crunchy nuts and pretzels to classic sandwich cookies in milk, dark, and white chocolate.

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Guelaguetza Mole Sauce + Mexican Hot Chocolate Kit

Chocolate isn’t just for dessert or for when sugar cravings strike. Founded by husband and wife Fernando Lopez and Maria Monterrubio in 1994, Oaxacan Mexican restaurant Guelaguetza has all your chocolate needs covered.

Guelaguetza’s Mooe Sauce + Mexican Hot Chocolate Kit includes 1 jar of this award-winning Los Angeles restaurant’s signature mole negro made with Mulato Chile, Mexican Pasilla Chile, Black Chilhuacle Chile, plantains, garlic, onion, spices and seasonings like clove, thyme, cinnamon, cumin, oregano, and black pepper. plus nuts like peanuts, almonds and walnuts. This chocolate kit also includes Oaxacan chocolate and an artisan molinillo (traditional wooden whisk) to make authentic Mexican hot chocolate.

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Knipschildt Chocolatier The World’s Fanciest Chocolate Truffle: La Madeline au Truffe

If you’re going to indulge for National Chocolate Day, why not go all out with the world’s most expensive chocolate? Denmark-born chocolatier Fritz Knipschildt has been using European craftsmanship to handmade his artisanal chocolate creations in Norwalk, Connecticut, since 1999.

Knipschildt Chocolatier’s La Madeline au Truffe is a rare French Perigord truffle enrobed in ganache and rolled in cocoa powder. The ganache is made of 70% Valrhona dark chocolate, heavy cream, sugar, truffle oil, and vanilla. This special 4-in. chocolate truffle arrives on a bed of sugar pearls in a gold box.

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