Pizza candy is one of those fun dime-store gummi treats that kids occasionally give to mom or dad at the checkout counter because the colors are bright, and the concept is kind of cool. Pizza candy is a kid-friendly sweet that is not something dad would be giving mom for their anniversary unless he had lost his mind. It is basically a gelatin disc with a few dots of color and a fruit flavor or two.

But what if someone re-imagined pizza candy? What if this gummi bite riding along in economy class of the snack aisle suddenly got upgraded to first class and found itself in the gourmet gift cabin? Now that would be epic, along the lines of Transformers – one minute it’s a lowly little gummi and the next thing you know pizza candy is the Optimus Prime of gourmet chocolate.

Pizza candy meet Chocolate Pizza, your distant namesake from the nicer side of the tracks. If pizza candy were in the witness protection program, then its new identity would be Chocolate Pizza.

Think about it for a second and it makes total sense. Chocolate, even gourmet chocolate, has a candy component to it since it shares a sweet lineage with its more common confections. And, what could possibly be more pizza than a disk with a variety of toppings served in an actual pizza box. Honestly, that screams pizza in any confectionery dialect. Granted, the terms are bit reversed since by that analysis Chocolate Pizza is more candy pizza than pizza candy. But I stand by the pizza candy thing since it is a lot hipper, a lot cooler, that way. Honestly, it’s how Yoda would say it – Hummm, transformed it is, this pizza candy. Hey, if switching words around was good enough for master Yoda, then who are we to argue a word here or a word there.

Now that we have established that Chocolate Pizza can properly masquerade as pizza candy then we can address the upgraded appeal. Forget gummi snacks, Chocolate Pizza is a whole new experience. Start with the highest quality Swiss-style chocolate and blend into that a finely ground homemade English toffee. Pour that mixture in to actual pizza pans and top with your favorite combinations of candies, nuts, caramel, marshmallows and more and serve in a custom pizza box. The ordinary becomes extraordinary. The humble pizza box hides the gourmet surprise. This is handcrafted chocolate gifts taken to the next level. Trim the border in a colorful candy explosion and hand-script a personal greeting or message in white chocolate and now the already unique confection becomes a one-of-a-kind chocolate statement. Yes, dad would give this to mom on their anniversary and be immediately praised as a gift-giving-hero.

We go back to the beginning where we noted that kids select ordinary pizza candy because its colorful and the concept is kind of cool – sounds a lot like the same reasons mom and dad might select Chocolate Pizza for a birthday, anniversary, thank you or holiday gift.

Chocolate Pizza Company is America’s premier chocolatier for this unique specialty. Featured on Food Network, CNBC, Hallmark and in Forbes, People and Entrepreneur magazines, Chocolate Pizza Company and twenty-something owner, Ryan Novak, create chocolate that is unique, delicious and impressive. Choose from dozens of Chocolate Pizza varieties, add their famous Peanut Butter Wings or select a beautiful gift basket and you have a gourmet chocolate gift perfect for business or personal occasions. It is an American success story with an owner who started as a dishwasher at age 15, bought the company at 21 and has taken a tiny chocolate shop in a one-stoplight town to the national stage and given pizza candy a whole new meaning.