Valentine's Day Chocolate
At La Mère de Famille, the oldest chocolate shop in Paris, you can declare your love by choosing a delicious assortment of our chocolates and confectionery among our artisanal creations. All our recipes are developed according to ancestral know-how by our team of enthusiasts, with as much care as requirement.
Treat your other half to chocolate this Valentine's Day
The reason we love Valentine's Day so much is because we think chocolate candies are one of the cutest ways to say " I love you "Every year, we enjoy imagining new products for this very special celebration, in order to slip delicious chocolate arrows into your Cupid's quiver.
For Valentine's Day, our hearts go boom with Chocoboum!
Are you lacking the words to express your love? Our Chocoboums have tenderness to spare! Nestled in a delightful gift box, These praline-filled papillotes all hide a message coated in milk or dark chocolate, excerpts from love songs that you may recognize , which make hearts leap and exalt feelings. No doubt, these tender words will melt your other half on Valentine's Day.
Make a boom effect with our box of Chocoboums
A chocolate heart “as big as your love” for romantics
Since on February 14, we offer our heart to a loved one, À la Mère de Famille takes the expression literally! Offer as a Valentine's Day gift a heart as big as your love (420 g of sweetness, all the same). Its elegant dark chocolate or milk chocolate mold is adorned with a delicate decoration of four-heart clovers and a pretty ribbon in the colors of the House. Inside are hidden a profusion of delicious chocolates. You will find adorable hearts filled with our iconic house praline, accompanied by an assortment of almonds and hazelnuts coated in dark chocolate or milk chocolate from which to pick without getting tired.
And little hearts, little hearts…
The proverb says that everything that is small and cute: you just have to slip your hand into it a bag of our little praline hearts to confirm it. The great romantics will love our assortments of small hearts to take, ultra gourmet with their signature milk and dark chocolate coating, filled with our incredible praline, a specialty of the House. They are just asking to be shared while looking into each other's eyes.
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More little hearts!
For Valentine's Day, the House is adapting another of its specialties with these adorable begging hearts of love, available in pretty bags. In dark or milk chocolate, decorated with a hazelnut, an almond, a pistachio and a raisin, their delicious crunch and flavors make hearts flutter.
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Offer a seasonal delight with our Toucans boxes
As delicate as loving hearts, our traditional Toucan with flaky praline covered with cocoa powder is a real marvel. Its very fine coating makes it sensitive to heat: this is why À la Mère de Famille only offers it in winter to guarantee you a perfect texture. Its rarity makes it a gift of choice for Valentine's Day!
Depending on your desire, choose our gift box of traditional Toucans, or our ballotin which brings together three recipes to die for: the pistachio praline toucan coated with pistachio pieces (yum), the sesame praline toucan coated with black and white sesame seeds (yum again) and the feuilletine toucan, an almond hazelnut praline coated with pieces (yum again).
Bet on variety with our box of chocolate and almond paste specialties
In love as in gourmandise, do you like surprises? Our special Valentine's Day chocolate box will be the perfect gift for you. This beautiful box hides an assortment of dark chocolate and milk chocolate candies, accompanied by roses and hearts in marzipan, love calissous and fruit pastes with tangy aromas. To be enjoyed with your eyes closed for a festival of flavors and sweetness!
Why give chocolate on Valentine's Day?
Offering a gift that is both romantic and deliciously gourmet for Valentine's Day is a very old tradition... that dates back to the Aztecs! They consumed a drink made from cocoa, vanilla, pepper, cloves and other spices, "Xocolatl" (later renamed chocolate by the Spanish), reputed to have an aphrodisiac effect. Imported into Europe in the 17th century, chocolate was all the rage among those who wanted to stimulate their ardor. Its consumption was even prohibited in some convents, the drink " heating up minds and passions " good sisters.
Whether you believe in these virtues or not, chocolate does contain (in small quantities, however 😉) phenylethylamine. A very complicated name for a natural hormone, which is also called the "love hormone", because this endorphin causes the same sensations as being in love. An English chocolatier had a brilliant idea in 1861. He made a heart-shaped box for his chocolates, a gift box that could then contain the sweet words exchanged between two lovers. His discovery was a huge success! The tradition of chocolate on Valentine's Day has since become well-established in romantic customs... and gourmets are not complaining!
How do our chocolates taste so good?
The À la Mère de Famille teams themselves select the cocoa beans from partner producers in Peru, Madagascar, Ecuador, Venezuela and many others, chosen for their level of requirement and their values. The different beans are then assembled, roasted and ground in our factory in Tours, France, according to traditional methods. Depending on the recipes, sugar, cocoa butter and possibly milk powder, in order to create our signature chocolate couverture with a unique taste. Our famous milk chocolate bar and our dark chocolate bar are shaped from this couverture, enhanced with other ingredients depending on our creations. Many gestures are still carried out by hand, in accordance with ancestral know-how. All this love gives an inimitable flavor to our sweets, and guarantees you the quality of the flavors of our chocolates.
Have Valentine's Day Chocolate Delivered to Your Other Half's Home
Once you have selected your Valentine's Day shopping list on our site, À la Mère de Famille will take care of shipping your order to the address of your choice, throughout metropolitan France and even in Europe. Each product is carefully packaged in a container that preserves all its freshness and aromas: it would be a shame if your heart arrived broken!
Do you want same-day home delivery, or anticipate the exact arrival time of your precious package? Our couriers deliver in less than 4 hours in Paris and some nearby cities. La Maison also offers deliveries in 24 to 48 hours, depending on what suits you best.
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Or come to the store to collect your purchases
Would you prefer to pick up your Valentine's Day chocolates yourself? When ordering online, choose the time and date of collection in store for your purchases. For your gift ideas, are you hesitating between the Chocoboum, the Valentine's Day box or the praline hearts? Our teams will be happy to advise you in the choice of this attention full of tenderness.
