Pizza gifts take on an entirely new identity when the pizza we are talking about is Chocolate Pizza®. Forget pizza gifts like pizza cutters, pizza peels or pizza stands – forget the whole dough-based pizza thing at all. Think chocolate – gourmet chocolate – handcrafted chocolate – add a dash of imagination and suddenly you arrive at the most unique destination of pizza gifts, Chocolate Pizza. Bingo! Here is a gift idea that no one saw coming.

What is Chocolate Pizza? In the big picture, it is chocolate in the shape of a pizza, topped with nuts or candies and served in a pizza box. But there is so much more to this discovery. It starts with who makes it and for that you might look toward a company that is so good at making this unique confection that it is literally their name, Chocolate Pizza Company. Located in Marcellus, New York, we have been making Chocolate Pizza for decades and have established ourselves as so distinct in this confectionery gem that we have earned a federal trademark on it. Owner, Ryan Novak, started with the company as a dishwasher when he was 15 years old and in 2010, at the age of 21 and a senior at Syracuse University, he bought it. Since then, he has transformed a small-town chocolate shop into an emerging national brand that has been featured on Food Network, CNBC, CMT and in Forbes, People and Entrepreneur magazines.

Chocolate Pizza gifts are ideal for holidays, business gifts or personal occasions like birthdays, anniversaries or special events. Our Chocolate Pizza starts with gourmet quality Swiss-style chocolate that we carefully temper to give it the shine, snap and velvety mouth-feel that distinguishes fine chocolate from lower grade compound chocolate. Tempering manipulates the temperature of the chocolate in a process that must be carefully controlled and maintained in order to produce the best results.

Next, we make English toffee using a local recipe that dates to 1919. We make it on-site, in small batches to maximize the flavor and crunch. The toffee is cooled, stretched and ground fine before being blended with our tempered chocolate. The toffee adds a very special note of texture and sweetness to our Chocolate Pizza. Once blended, it is poured into actual pizza pans, shaken so the trapped air is released, topped with a dizzying variety of candies or nuts and served in a custom pizza box. Chocolate Pizza gifts take surprise to a new level – a fun twist that hides a gourmet chocolate masterpiece inside the humble trappings of a pizza box.

And as pizza gifts go, there is no beating this collection. There are Chocolate Pizzas designed for every major holiday, for birthdays, anniversaries, get well wishes, thank you gifts, congratulations, weddings or babies. There are Chocolate Pizzas buried in an avalanche of candy favorites or spread with pecans, almonds, walnuts. There are Chocolate Pizzas that are deconstructed S’mores with graham cracker chunks and marshmallows or ones flavored with Irish Cream, hazelnut or crème de menthe. There are even just plain Chocolate Pizzas.

And then there are customized Chocolate Pizza gifts that are as unique as the occasion. Skilled chocolatiers can create Chocolate Pizza gifts where you choose the flavor, the size, the border and the words that our artisans script in white chocolate right on the pizza. We are fond of saying – your words, our chocolate.

So, think outside the box the next time pizza gifts are on your mind. Try giving something that is unique, delicious and impressive – Chocolate Pizza.