It is always nice to receive a hamper as a present and now hampers can be given at any time of the year and not just at Christmas. A hamper was traditionally given at Xmas and sometimes a luxury hamper was raffled by the local stores for customers. Luxury hampers contained wines, spirits, turkey or goose, tins of biscuits or cookies, jams, cream, cakes and frequently chocolate of some kind. For chocolate lovers there is a new hamper which contains only chocolate items or thing closely related to chocolate like chocolate milk for instance.
Just chocolate hampers
Anyone can make chocolate hampers without too much effort provided that an ample supply of chocolate, chocolate bars and milk chocolate drinks available. The key thing to remember is that all of the ingredients must contain chocolate, chocolate powder or chocolate milk flavored drinks. A few exceptions would be T-shirts or jewelry embossed or inscribed with the words ‘I love chocolate’. The hamper packaging can be a wicker basket, a metal tin or a nice small wooden box and the presentation should be mouth watering. Ordinary everyday chocolate is acceptable but when making a chocolate hamper people try to source unusual brands or chocolate from another region or country as this adds to the exotic nature of the gift. I mention gift because a hamper is usually made for someone else and every effort is made to ascertain from the receiver the type of chocolate they prefer. A hamper of very dark, strong chocolate may not even be eaten by a person who only likes milk chocolate.
For the non chocolate lovers (some do exist, but I have never met anyone) there are several other hampers you can make to suit their preferences. Fruit, fish or cheese hampers might be acceptable alternatives but a hamper can be gathered together from any variety of things.