Treats for Your Sweet

Impress your beloved with some of these exceptional chocolates.

It was tough, but we did it. Reader's Digest staffers tried hundreds of chocolates to bring you the very best edible Valentines. How dedicated! Our favorites:

1. Chocolove
Eight unique bars, in flavors such as ginger, orange peel and extra-strong dark. Each bar lists the cocoa content and includes a love poem (chocolove.com; $23).

2. Michel Cluizel
These sophisticated Parisian sweets have a manly feel -- all the way down to the cocoa-colored box (chocolatmichelcluizel.com; $65 per pound).

3. Anna Shea
Each hand-painted, filled chocolate is almost too beautiful to eat. Created by an artist turned chocolatier (annasheachocolates.com; $19 for 12).

4. Jacques Torres; Recchiuti Hot Chocolate
Torres's is spiced powder; Recchiuti's has chocolate chunks (recchiuti.com; $20; mrchocolate.com; $16).

5. Shari's Berries
Your sweetheart will think she's opening a box of roses, but inside it's even better: a dozen delectably dipped strawberries (berries.com; $85).

6. SweetBliss
Treats from the Moo Collection call to mind Mallomars, in yummy flavors such as banana, peanut butter and marshmallow (sweetbliss.com; $45 for 6).