Valentine’s Day At The Chocolate Duck
For the past 32 years, The Chocolate Duck has been Main Street’s sweetest staple. If you haven’t yet stepped foot inside of Farmingdale’s resident chocolate wonderland, you’re missing out on a taste bud experience like no other. With Valentine’s Day upon us, you really have no excuse to not pay a visit—after all, chocolate is the holiday’s signature treat.
As soon as patrons walk through The Chocolate Duck’s doors, they are greeted by the deliciously sweet scents of treats both on the shelf and being made right in the back of the shop. For Valentine’s Day, themed packages abound. Go with a traditional, premade red heart full of truffles, or pick up the shop’s very own chocolate boxes. That’s right, lift the lid of the chocolate heart and fill it with Valentine’s treats of your choice.
Aside from good ol’ truffles The Chocolate Duck makes itself, for the season of love the shop is carrying Moonstruck, a “top-of-the-line” assortment of chocolates infused with all sorts of fun ingredients, including espresso, vanilla French buttercream, hazelnut, whiskey and vodka. Special Valentine’s themed desserts, like heart-shaped lollipops, chocolate roses and a plethora of mini chocolate hearts, are available for purchase.
“This place, Valentine’s and the day before, will be mobbed,” said Harry Cohen, the owner of The Chocolate Duck. “The line will be out the door.”
Since shopping the day before could be a risky test of patience, the store also offers customers the ability to call ahead and place an order.
The most popular item for the season? Truffles, of course. But Chocolate-dipped fruit comes in at an extremely close second. Cohen stated the shop will sell an estimated 500-pounds of strawberries.
Along with the jumbo chocolate chip cookies that fly off the shelves as quickly as The Chocolate Duck can bake them, their extensive assortment of Sugarfina products—a candy for grown-ups—is a hot buy for Valentine’s shoppers.
Whether shopping for family, friends or lovers, The Chocolate Duck is prepared to serve whatever shoppers’ sweet tooths desire.
“Everybody’s here for a happy reason,” said Cohen of the Valentine’s Day season. “They want to send a message that ‘I love you,’ and we’re here to help them send that message.”
Visit The Chocolate Duck at 310 Main St. in Farmingdale. For more information, visit www.chocolateduck.com.
