Snack or gift? With chocolate it’s both, about half the time, so the box should feel a bit special. There’s also the heat problem (a truffle in a warm car is done for) and pieces knocking together on the way home.
For bars we like chocolate envelopes, a printed sleeve over foil, the classic look. Favors and samples? Small chocolate boxes, two or three pieces each.
Filled chocolates need a tray insert, so look at truffle boxes or the whole run of chocolate packaging boxes. Making candy too? Candy boxes.
Selling at the till? Chocolate display boxes keep the bars standing up on the counter, right where people grab them.
Christmas and Valentine’s Day are the big ones and the orders all land in the same few weeks, so plan early. See Christmas packaging, plus gift boxes and luxury boxes.
Baking as well? Try bakery packaging boxes, or food and beverage packaging for the rest.
One flat bar in its foil? We’d nearly always say chocolate envelopes for that, which is just paperboard folded into a sleeve with a flap tucking over the end. They’re thin, they stack flat in a drawer, and the whole front is your label. If the bar is thick or has inclusions that snap easily (we’ve seen a lot of broken pistachio bark), a tuck carton from the custom chocolate boxes range gives it a bit more backbone.
Here it’s all about the insert. Each piece needs its own pocket or it rolls into its neighbor and smears the decoration. For one to about nine pieces, small chocolate boxes are the usual pick, the sort you’d sell at the till or hand out as wedding favors. Bigger assortments, a dozen or 24, belong in custom truffle boxes with a fitted tray and usually a lift-off lid. Window or no window is mostly taste. If the hand-painting is good, show it off.
Chocolate display boxes hold a row of bars or small packs by the register, with the front panel printed and tilted toward whoever’s paying. They ship flat. Pair one with a stack of envelopes and a coffee shop has an impulse-buy spot set up in about five minutes.
Nice box or not, chocolate in a July van turns into soup. So for summer orders we’d keep the retail box exactly as it is and put cold packs in the outer shipping carton instead. Easy fix.
It’s food-contact board, printed on the outside only, so yes.
Trays for 4, 6, 9 or 12 pieces are common, bigger is fine.
Gold and silver foil, both. On chocolate that’s what most people pick anyway.
Sure. People like seeing what they’re buying.
