Valentine's Day is a day when people celebrate love. Basically, every day is a day of love because you show affection and love to your loved ones every day. However, something related to love feels more special if it has a special day to celebrate it. Did you know that the history of Valentine's Day is actually quite tragic but it does show the sacrifice of love for someone you love.

This explains why in the end every Valentine's Day, generally those who have a partner will give something special in the form of flowers and chocolate. Have you ever wondered why chocolate is the signature gift on Valentine's Day? According to Detik, besides chocolate symbolizing love, another reason is that a long time ago there was a chocolate manufacturer named Richard Cadbury who made an innovation by making heart-shaped chocolate and decorating the chocolate box to be beautiful and gave birth to a pedestal on Valentine's Day for the ancient people to flock to buy chocolate innovations from Richard Cadbury.

It has become iconic and cultural all over the world including Indonesia. Usually, chocolate brands will present practical Valentine's edition chocolates that you can buy directly at the nearest store. This method is very common so it is less interesting and not challenging. What if you can make your own chocolate creations at home so that they can be innovated to be more beautiful and satisfying? Let's take a look at the Valentine's creations below that you can try for your loved ones. 

1. Truffle Chocolate
Truffle chocolate is chocolate balls made from ganache. Ganache is the main ingredient here so make sure the ganache is made from premium quality ingredients. You can use Elmer Chocolate Dark Classic Compound and Elmer Cocoa Powder for a more delicious result. Despite its simplicity to make, ganache requires great precision. Truffle chocolate is known as a chocolate creation that is quite often present at important moments and one of them is Valentines Day.

2. Heart-Shaped Chocolate
Heart-Shaped Chocolate is arguably the simplest and easiest creation to make because all you need is a chocolate bar. To make it look prettier, you can use Elmer Vista Festival which is a colorful chocolate bar with various flavors such as Banana, Strawberry, Green Tea and others. With colorful heart-shaped chocolates, it will certainly be more pleasing to the eye. Just melt the chocolate bar and put it into a heart-shaped mold and then put it in the freezer. On top of the chocolate, you can add Elmer Sugar Sprinkle to enhance the chocolate.

3. Strawberry Dipped Chocolate Bouquet
As the name implies, all you need is Strawberry fruit with chocolate bar as the dipping sauce. You can use Elmer's Dark Classic Compound as the chocolate bar. Just melt the chocolate bar and dip the Strawberry only half into the melted chocolate and then place it in the freezer until frozen. Once frozen, skewer the Strawberries onto skewers. The result can be wrapped like a beautiful flower bouquet.

4. Alphabet Chocolate
Just like the heart-shaped chocolate, the alphabet chocolate just needs a letter mold. Melt the chocolate bars into the letter molds until frozen. The fun is that you can make a word or sentence using this creation. For example, your boyfriend's name or a romantic sentence. Don't forget to use Elmer's Dark Classic Compound as your go-to chocolate bar.

5. Color Cake Pops
In this creation, you have to make the sponge or cake batter first. After the cake batter is finished, you shape it into balls and skewer them onto candy skewers. Make sure you have prepared color melted chocolate from Elmer Vista Festival. Guaranteed to give a beautiful color to your creation. Once the melted chocolate is ready, you just need to dip the skewered cookies into the melted chocolate and freeze them in the freezer. 

Hopefully, these 5 creations will give you a good idea and impression for your loved ones. Show your affection and love through a creation so that it can be an added value to the effort you make for your special someone. Elmer Chocolate is ready to fulfill all your creation needs at any moment. Have a good time.