SUGAR, UNSWEETENED CHOCOLATE, COCOA BUTTER, WHOLE MILK POWDER, NONFAT DRY MILK, MILK FAT, YELLOW CORN FLOUR, SOY LECITHIN, PALM OIL, NATURAL PEPPERMINT FLAVOR, COCOA PROCESSED WITH ALKALI, VANILLA EXTRACT, FRUIT AND VEGETABLE JUICE (COLOR), NATURAL FLAVOR, CORN STARCH, CURCUMIN (COLOR), RICE SYRUP.

Ghirardelli Chocolate - Makes Life a Bite Better Delicious, Decadent, Luxurious, and Velvety Soft. Shop from our best-selling collection of Milk, Dark and White Chocolates. Great to share, gift or simply self-indulge.

The three cocoa components are: chocolate liquor, cocoa butter and cocoa powder. For example, in our 60% Cacao Dark Chocolate SQUARES Chocolate, the 60% cacao content is made up of cocoa butter and chocolate liquor with the remaining 40% made up of sugar, vanilla, and other ingredients.

Ghirardelli chocolate is known for its rich, deep flavor and smooth, velvety texture.

Peppermint is far from an ordinary ingredient. Green mint leaves are crushed to extract their valuable oil to include in chocolate. This oil offers several health benefits, including fiber, vitamins, and a trace amount of protein. Peppermint oil also has medicinal uses, working as a natural muscle relaxant.

Peppermint bark is a holiday treat made with two types of chocolate - either semisweet or dark and white - and chopped candy canes. Williams-Sonoma is basically famous for theirs at this point, and for good reason - it's delicious.

Ghirardelli - American Heritage Since its historic beginnings in 1852, the founder Domingo Ghirardelli was dedicated to creating premium chocolate with highest quality only. Today, the historic chocolate factory at Ghirardelli Square is one of San Francisco's landmark.

The Ghirardelli Chocolate Company is an American confectioner, wholly owned by Swiss confectioner Lindt & Sprüngli. The company was founded by and is named after Italian chocolatier Domenico Ghirardelli, who, after working in South America, moved to California.

Ghirardelli Square, considered the first successful adaptive reuse project in the country, has a history that spans more than a century and covers three continents. This specialty retail and dining complex, housing shops and restaurants, was originally a chocolate factory established by Domenico “Domingo” Ghirardelli.

Health Benefits of Peppermint

• What Is Peppermint? 1/14. This herb is a cross between two types of mints: water mint and spearmint.
• Peppermint's Past. 2/14.
• How to Use It. 3/14.
• Soothe Upset Stomach. 4/14.
• Treat IBS Symptoms. 5/14.
• Help With Headaches. 6/14.
• Kill Mouth Germs. 7/14.
• Ease Stuffy Sinuses. 8/14.

Peppermint oil is promoted for topical use (applied to the skin) for problems like headache, muscle aches, joint pain, and itching. In aromatherapy, peppermint oil is promoted for treating coughs and colds, reducing pain, improving mental function, and reducing stress.

Peppermint bark is a chocolate confection. Generally it consists of peppermint candy pieces, such as candy canes, in white chocolate on top of dark chocolate, but peppermint bark can refer to any chocolate with peppermint candy pieces in it.

Is Williams Sonoma the original inventor of Peppermint Bark? YES! Williams Sonoma's founder, Chuck Williams invented the confection in 1998 after more than 20 rounds of recipe testing.