Chocolate is a quintessential Valentine’s Day gift, but a box of bonbons is gone within a day or two. Instead, why not give the gift of delicious hot chocolate all year round? Hotel Chocolat’s Velvetiser machine produces smooth, velvety hot chocolate within two minutes: You pour in some milk, add a sachet of grated chocolate, press a button, and voilà — you’re enjoying a perfectly calibrated cuppa tout suite. It’s highly convenient and delightfully indulgent — so much so that it’s turned me into a hot chocolate convert, and I’ve gone from drinking the stuff a few times a year to nearly nightly. That makes it a perfect gift for the chocolate lover in your life, and while the Velvetiser is usually fairly pricey at $150, right now the brand is offering a Valentine’s Day bundle that sweetens the deal with two additional ten-packs of chocolate flakes, usually $25 each — that’s 20 cups of hot chocolate basically for free.
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