The perfect holiday gift: delicious confections from Charles Chocolates, a San Francisco company specializing in gourmet handmade small-batch sweets and beautifully packaged sets. Our favorites:

• 10-Bar Chocolate Collection ($96): Features ten chef-curated bars spanning premium, salty-sweet, nut, and ruby chocolate lines (including Ruby Garnet bars). Available via the Charles Chocolates 10 Bar Collection.]
• Ultimate Chocolate Bar Collection: 7 Bars ($65): A selection of seven premium and salty-sweet chocolate bars. [1]
• Nostalgia Bar Collection: 3 Candy Bars ($13): Reimagined childhood favorites made from scratch (such as Don’t Make Me Snicker, Ode to Joy, and Mac Daddy). [1]
• Medium Artisan Chocolate Set ($57): A curated assortment of small-batch chocolates, bars, treats, and confections. [1]
• Charles Chocolates + John Kelly Combo Gift Set ($100): A combined gift set featuring signature confections. [1]
• Signature & Classic Collections ($20 – $118): Handcrafted truffle and praline boxes, caramels, nut collections, and seasonal treats

Visit http://www.charles chocolates.com for the complete story and the whole lineup of scrumptious goodies like S’mores, chocolate covered nuts, chocolate covered lemon and orange peels, caramel almond sticks, Gianduja blocks, Fleur de Sel caramels, snicker bars, mac daddy bars, and triple almond chocolates.