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 heart goes boom with Chocoboum!
Short of words to express all your love? Our Chocoboum, on the other hand, have love to spare! Nestled in a charming gift box, these praline-filled chocolates hide a message enrobed in milk or dark chocolate, with excerpts from love songs that you may recognize , which make hearts leap and feelings soar. There's no doubt, these tender words will melt your sweetheart on Valentine's Day.
Make a boom effect with our Chocoboum bag
A chocolate heart "as big as your love" for romantics
Since on February 14th, we give our heart to a loved one, À la Mère de Famille takes the expression literally! Give as a Valentine's Day gift a heart as big as your love (420 g of sweetness, after all). Its elegant molding in dark chocolate or milk chocolate is adorned with a delicate decoration of four-heart clovers and a chic ribbon in the Maison's colors. 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 enrobed in dark chocolate or milk chocolate from which to pick without getting tired.
Show me that heart as big as this
And little hearts, little hearts...
The proverb says that everything that is small and cute: you will only need to slip your hand into a bag of our little praline hearts to confirm it. The great romantics will love our assortments of little hearts to take, ultra-gourmand with their signature milk and dark chocolate coating, filled with our incredible praline, a specialty of the Maison. They are just waiting to be shared while looking into each other's eyes.
Over here for the praline hearts team
More little hearts!
For Valentine's Day, the Maison adapts another of its specialties with these adorable love mendiants, available in pretty bags. In dark or milk chocolate, adorned with a hazelnut, an almond, a pistachio and a raisin, their delicious crunch and flavors make hearts swoon.
Over there for the mendiants hearts team
Give a seasonal delight with our Toucan boxes
As delicate as lovers' hearts, our traditional Toucan with layered praline covered in cocoa powder is a real marvel. Its very thin coating makes it sensitive to heat: that is why À la Mère de Famille only offers it in winter to guarantee you a perfect texture. Its rarity makes it a choice gift for the Valentine's Day holiday!
Depending on your desire, choose our traditional Toucan gift box, or our box that brings together three amazing recipes: the toucan with pistachio praline enrobed in pistachio chips (yum), the toucan with sesame praline enrobed in black and white sesame seeds (yum-yum) and the feuilletine toucan, an almond hazelnut praline enrobed in chips (yum-yum-yum).
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 case hides an assortment of dark chocolate and milk chocolate candies, accompanied by roses and almond paste hearts, love calissous and fruit pastes with tangy aromas. To be tasted with your eyes closed for a festival of flavors and sweetness!
Why give chocolate for Valentine's Day?
Giving a gift that is both romantic and deliciously gourmand for the holiday of lovers is a very old tradition... dating back to the Aztecs! They consumed a drink based on cacao, vanilla, pepper, cloves and other spices, the "Xocolatl" (later renamed chocolate by the Spanish), reputed to have an aphrodisiac effect. Imported to Europe in the 17th century, chocolate made a furore among those who wanted to stimulate their ardor. Its consumption was even prohibited in some convents, the drink "heating the minds and passions" of the nuns.
Whether one believes 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 the state of love. An English chocolatier had a great 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 invention met with crazy success! The tradition of chocolate for Valentine's Day has since been well rooted in romantic customs... and the gourmands do not complain about it!
How do our chocolates manage to be so good?
The À la Mère de Famille teams themselves select the cacao beans from partner producers in Peru, Madagascar, Ecuador, Venezuela and many others, chosen for their level of rigor and their values. The different beans are then assembled, roasted and ground in our factory in France, in Tours, according to traditional methods. Depending on the recipes, sugar, cocoa butter and possibly milk powder are added, in order to create our signature Maison chocolate coating with a unique taste. Our famous milk chocolate bar and our dark chocolate bar are shaped from this coating, adorned with other ingredients depending on our creations. Many gestures are still done by hand, respecting 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 chocolate delivered for Valentine's Day to your sweetheart's home
Once your shopping list for Valentine's Day is selected on our site, À la Mère de Famille takes 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 preserving all its freshness and aromas: it would be the height of folly if your heart arrived broken!
Do you want same-day home delivery, or anticipate the arrival time of your precious package with precision? Our couriers deliver in less than 4 hours in Paris and in certain cities of the inner ring. The Maison also offers deliveries in 24 to 48 hours depending on what suits you best.
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Or stop by the store to pick up your purchases
Do you prefer to come pick up your Valentine's chocolates yourself? Choose during your online order the time and date of the in-store pickup of your purchases. For your gift ideas, are you hesitating between the Chocoboum, the Valentine's box or the praline hearts? Our teams will be delighted to advise you in the choice of this gesture full of tenderness.
