For 23 years, Ms. Verbarg, 49, has been making chocolate baskets and filling lighthouse-shaped coffee pots, teddy bear tins and other decorative ware with chocolates.
For Mother's Day, Mr. Yvon is filling chocolate baskets with butter cookies and assembling strawberry shortcakes from heart-shaped génoise, whipped cream and strawberries.
For Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain, he created "Strawberries and Cream," handmade chocolate baskets for each table filled with layers of strawberry mousse and chocolate and topped with Devonshire cream and lemon curd.
A handmade woven-chocolate basket filled iwht Ms. Bisbee's favorite truffles runs $35.
We also liked the milk chocolate mousse presented in an almond-praline-chocolate basket and the warm pecan tart crowned with pistachio gelato.
Considerate, inexpensive gifts include a bottle of good wine, a box of chocolates, a basket of fruit, or a bouquet of flowers, or perhaps a music CD by artists from your region or country.
The same goes for chocolates, fruit baskets and Champagne.
Cases of chocolates and baskets of croissants are tucked into a wall opposite the counter.
"If you run 5K, you can tell the app to reward you by putting chocolate into your basket, say.
Big chocolate bunnies and baskets of pastel eggs decorated shop windows in the Old City.
