Don’t let the blizzards and biting cold get in the way of a sunny disposition. Komforte Chockolates combines the uplifting properties of chocolate with the crispy, salty crunch of corn tortillas and the zing of a lime—you’ll be poolside in your mind in no time.

As we inch closer to a certain love-stricken holiday (which MUST have something to do with the season’s cuddly sweaters), chocolate that’s meant to share, as Komforte Chockolates is keen to say, is a fitting choice for your margarita-lovin’ chocoholic sweetheart.

Sold in a pack of 12 at Amazon. To buy individual bars at around $3 each see retailers listed here.

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TCHO: A chocolate experience from beta to bliss

The Chocolate Start-up

We first encountered TCHO (pronounced: cho) while attending a conference for web start-ups nearly a year ago. A welcome (and delicious) snack after a morning of presentations, we’d been given a piece of chocolate wrapped in plain brown paper. Stamped on the outside was the company’s name, a marked check-box next to its flavor: fruity, chocolatey or nutty, and across the top, the words “beta batch”.

We were, in fact, beta tasters and TCHO was collecting feedback at their booth outside the auditorium.

An unexpected approach for prepping the launch of a chocolate company—there was nothing unusual about the software analogies or the 1,000+ iterations of chocolate prior to launch to company co-founder Timothy Childs, an internet entrepreneur and former NASA Space Shuttle technologist, or TCHO’s CEO, Louis Rossetto, co-founder of Wired Magazine.

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