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The Leah Culver Bar by chocri for SXSW

Author: Carmen | March 25, 2010 | Events

You're getting it - this week is all about celebrity - excuse me, cewebrity - chocolate bars for South By Southwest! And we still have two very yummy ones to come - the Leah Culver Chocolate Bar and the Gary Vaynerchuk Chocolate Bar.

Ladies first.

Leah Culver

Leah Culver is the co-founder of Pownce and software engineer extraordinaire. For SXSW, she created this exciting concoction combining sweet and savory.

I gave those personalized chocolate bars away after her panel "Web Framework Battle Royale". Someone was so kind to count: It took mere 60 seconds for all the bars to have vanished! A minute!! Those Web Framework Battlers loved chocolate ;)

Here's the chocolate bar Leah created with chocri:

The Leah Culver Chocolate Bar by chocri for sxsw

The bar is, no doubt, adventurous. A combination of dark chocolate, - and sea salt! Ginger, mint leaves and finally gold flakes give this bar a pretty look and exciting taste, only complemented by the black sesame (which, by the way, tastes fantastic). This bar is surely not for everyone - but definitely for those who like salt with their dark chocolate. What can we say - Leah is an adventurous lady, and maybe that's why she got so far in a world dominated by men. We love the bar - and if you do too, feel free to buy it as one of our recommended creations at a price cheaper than if you created it yourself.

Are you the savory or sweet type? Or both? Play with it


The Dave Morin Chocolate Bar by chocri for SXSW

Author: Carmen | March 24, 2010 | Events

The Dave Morin Chocolate Bar by chocri for SXSW

Dave Morin is an entrepreneur and co-invented the Facebook Platform. In 2009, he was named #16 of the most creative people in business by Fast Company - reason enough to ask him to make his own chocolate bar with chocri for SXSW. Unfortunately he couldn't be there himself, so he asked us to take pictures of the lucky recipients of his chocolate bars - which is how the collage above came about. Look at all the happiness! Thanks Dave for making these fantastic bars (and the Facebook Platform isn't too shabby either, so thanks for that, too...).

By the way, corporate buyers listen up - Dave's Bar is a great example of a logo printed on the bar (instead of the name that you would otherwise give it). Chocolate bars with a logo make a very neat corporate gift, so keep us in mind next time you need something to woo your clients, ok? Thanks!

And here's the personalized chocolate bar itself. It's a concoction bringing together dark chocolate, toasted hazelnuts, ground coffee beans and.. gasp.. wonderfully tasty raspberries. Those really rock the bar!

The Dave Morin Chocolate Bar by chocri for SXSW.

Just like the Violet Blue, you can get it as one of our recommended creations for cheaper than if you created it yourself.

But wait, what is on YOUR chocolate bar?


The Violet Blue Chocolate Bar

Author: Carmen | March 23, 2010 | Events

As mentioned earlier, chocri gave out some personalized chocolate bars at South By Southwest Interactive - a half conference, half festival for geeks. One of those bars was created by Violet Blue. Violet Blue is not only a Forbes "Web Celeb", she's an expert in the field of sex and technology and not content with being ordinary. That's why we asked one of Wired's "Faces of Innovation" to design her own bar for SXSW - and she made a very, very sexy chocolate bar.

"The Violet Blue Chocolate Bar" is aphrodisiac-packed, with dark chocolate, roasted almonds, candied lilac (or are they violets?...) and ground coffee.

The Violet Blue Chocolate Bar by chocri for SXSW

Here's what Violet herself wrote about it on her very, very sexy blog: "Now I’m about to head down the the Hilton lobby to give out the Chocri chocolate bars I designed, free-Tweetup-flashmob style. Why not? They’re chocolate, almond, coffee and an aphrodisiac surprise. Thank you, Chocri!"

No no, thank you Violet for playing with us! And the good news for everyone is - you can buy the chocolate bar as one of our recommended creations - for a little cheaper than if you'd create it yourself.

Stay tuned for the Leah Culver, Dave Morin and Gary Vaynerchuk Bars for SXSW!

p.s. Like this topic? We wrote a blog post on the topic whether chocolate is an aphrodisiac!


chocri At South By Southwest

Author: Carmen | March 12, 2010 | Events

Dear chocolate & tech lovers,

chocri will be representing at South by Southwest Interactive - with free customized chocolate bars!

If you're attending sxsw, we know you'll need a chocolate bar to pick you up at some point. That's why we asked Leah Culver, Gary Vaynerchuk, Violet Blue and Dave Morin to design some bars to be given away at South By Southwest. You can see (and buy) their concoctions on our recommendations page, but better is: Follow us on Twitter to find out where they'll be for free.

Here are some tips:

Below an example of a bar - the Leah Culver Chocolate Bar:

The Leah Culver Chocolate Bar by chocri

Doesn't it look delicious?



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