Sprayed across drugstores and grocery shelves are rows and rows of heart-shaped boxes. Most of these boxes are filled with chocolates. In recent years, other candies have also made their way into ...

Money can’t buy you love — or as much cocoa as it used to, with adverse weather denting West African crops and chocolatiers adding more fillers like nuts.

British chocolatier Richard Cadbury introduced his “fancy box” in which he packaged his company’s chocolates in heart-shaped boxes. Other chocolate companies soon followed suit, adorning ...

Every year, 36m heart-shaped boxes of chocolates are sold, for example in the US. But beneath the glossy boxes hides a less romantic truth. At the end of the day, when the chocolate has been eaten, ...

Chocolate truffles likely originated when hot cream was accidentally mixed with chocolate instead of pastry cream ingredients. In 1923, chocolatier Russell Stover began selling heart-shaped boxes ...