Gift Cards

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Sometimes it's hard to choose! If you aren't quite certain whether your friend or loved one prefers bars or bonbons (or if you're just in a bit of a hurry), a gift card is a thoughtful way to let someone curate their own chocolate gift or experience.

Our gift cards are intended for ample choice and flexibility, and may be redeemed for any product or experience, including curated bars sets, hand-made confections and Gâteaux, café pastries and beverages, public or private factory tours, and virtual or on-site classes. Our gift cards are accepted online and at all of our store locations (save for Japan).

Deliver by mail — Letterpressed gift cards will be tucked in an envelope with your personalized message and mailed via USPS Priority shipping (following order processing). Expedited FedEx shipping is also available.

Deliver instantly by email — Provide your recipient’s name, email address, and a personalized message and your virtual card will be sent momentarily.

Gift cards sent to corporate email accounts are often filtered as spam. You might consider sending to a personal email address.

Printable gift cards via email — If you’d like to print a gift card yourself to give in person, please select "Virtual Gift Card" and provide your own email address as the destination, along with your recipient’s name and a personalized message. You’ll receive a virtual card addressed to them as well as a ready-to-print PDF copy.

If you are ordering multiple gift cards for family, friends, or colleagues (e.g., if you’d like a batch of gift cards to have on hand for last-minute giving throughout the holidays), please reach out to our Guest Care team, who will be happy to streamline the process.

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Gift Cards

Two Gifting Options

VIRTUAL GIFT CARDS


Send a personalized virtual card redeemable for all chocolates, confections, tours and classes, and café treats. Virtual cards arrive immediately after checkout, and include a printable PDF gift card, in case you would like to gift in person.

PHYSICAL GIFT CARDS


Our letterpressed gift cards make a perfect addition to several chocolate bars, a bonbon assortment, or box of caramels. Consider combining our wrapped and signed “Making Chocolate” book with a gift card, so your recipient may source single-origin chocolate ingredients and make their own delicacies all year.

a little about us ...

We Make Bean-to-Bar Chocolate

We're Dandelion, a bean-to-bar chocolate maker in San Francisco's Mission District. For over ten years, we've been turning cocoa beans and organic sugar into single-origin dark chocolate. We’re part of the New American Chocolate Movement of small-scale chocolate makers building specialized machines and rethinking chocolate-making practices to reclaim the depth of flavor in chocolate. As a bean-to-bar maker, we first source our own beans, then sort, roast, crack, winnow, melange, temper, and mold each bar we make.

Just Two Ingredients.
That’s All.


Our chocolate bars are made of just two ingredients, cocoa beans and organic cane sugar, so that the quality and flavor nuances of the beans shine. We don’t add cocoa butter, soy lecithin, vanilla, flavorings, or preservatives. With a light hand and minimalist approach, we aim to highlight different cocoa origins' distinctive flavor notes — from classic fudge to tangy fruit.

Relationships

We Visit Each Origin to Build
Lasting Relationships


When sourcing cocoa beans, we look for good flavor and good people. Building trust is at the heart of what we do, and relationships are reciprocal. In addition to seeking flavorful cocoa, we’re also interested in what our cocoa producers need from us — feedback on a new fermentation process, upfront capital to offset a bad season, or connections to other chocolate makers to grow business. Each year we publish the stories, numbers, and practices of our producers in our annual Sourcing Report.

We Visit Each Origin
to Build Lasting
Relationships


When we look for cocoa beans, we look for good flavor and good people. Building trust is at the heart of what we do, and relationships are reciprocal. In addition to looking for good cocoa, we’re also interested in what our cocoa producers need from us — feedback on a new fermentation process, upfront capital to offset a bad season, or connections to other chocolate makers to grow business. Each year we publish the stories, numbers, and practices of our producers in our annual Sourcing Report.

We Work With Collaborators &
Chocolatiers Worldwide


While chocolate makers produce chocolate from cocoa beans, chocolatiers use finished chocolate to create truffles, bonbons, candy, and confections. Since we don’t add emulsifiers or extra cocoa butter to our chocolate, working with it requires extra time and attention. As a result, making truffles or chocolate-covered cocoa nibs with our chocolate can be especially challenging. Our collaborators remain undaunted, inventing new recipes and products each year. We celebrate their talents and share these crafted treats with you.

See Our Chocolate Making in
San Francisco

If you’re in San Francisco, we invite you to stop by our café and factory in the Mission District to sip hot chocolate and watch our chocolate makers turn cocoa beans into chocolate bars.

Join Us Virtually or in Person, and Experience Chocolate From a New Perspective

Our expert Chocolate Educators share their perspectives on tasting single-origin chocolate, making chocolate and truffles, and savoring chocolate in new ways. Our public and private classes are available for individuals, families, and group events.