Mmmm.... Chocolate!

As if there wasn’t going to be enough chocolate around over the next couple of months, the Academy of Natural Sciences has an exhibit full of it!  Chocolate: The Exhibition traces the intriguing story of this “food of the gods” from its origin as a unique rainforest tree to the sensuous sweet millions of people crave today.  Barter cacao seeds for goods in an Aztec market, trace cacao’s journey across the Atlantic, and witness chocolate’s transformation into a tantalizing treat through the addition of sugar.  Explore chocolate’s impact on tropical ecosystems, human cultures, and the global economy through a range of fun, hands-on activities for all ages.  Stand under a life-size cacao tree and touch pods and seeds. Chocolate plus science!

But this is a shoe blog, so instead of giving you chocolate plus science, I give you chocolate plus shoes!

Yes, this lovely violet pump is chocolate!  Hand-molded milk chocolate, to be exact, dusted with lavender edible glitter dust.  Oh, and silver edible glitter dust on the inside, and on the feature at the toe.  Well done, Gayle’s Chocolates!  How could you even bring yourself to eat these?  (Good news: they have a shelf life of a year.  Also good news: You get to keep and reuse the plastic purse.)  It clocks in at 3.5 pounds and seven inches tall.  Find it at Saks for $45.

Another shoe and purse combo!  This time from Charbonnel et Walker, and in dark instead of milk chocolate.  The shoes are stamped with little daisies, which are cute, and they measure five inches tall.  Yours for $15 from Bloomingdales.

Wow.  Just… wow.  This chocolate heel is sort of amazing.  Just look at the beautiful coral color, and all the glorious chocolate shells at the heel and toe!  Starfish and conches and spirals and sand dollars.  I believe it’s milk chocolate on the inside, and it’s just coated in white.  Really, it’s so beautiful… and you should check out the others available on the site!  That site is Three Sisters Chocolate, by the way, and the shoes cost $80.

Chocolate: The Exhibition runs through January 24.