The chocolate's original clay mould

Another old project from the archive, Say It With Chocolate was an idea I had one hot summer to create an insulated chocolate box that would melt its contents. Although this could be seen as a downside by chocolate lovers, for this experiement I wanted to see if I could cause the melted chocolate to print a message onto the box’s inner lid. To achieve this I had to design quite a heavily insulated box along with a double-sided chocolate that would allow the sender to lay out a message to surprise the recipient.

A chocolate 'pixel'

The chocolate's latex mould

The model, the mould and the chocolate

The Say It With Chocolate box

On the reverse is a handy guide to the letters you can write

The Say It With Chocolate box, detail

The Say It With Chocolate box, detail

The Say It With Chocolate box, detail

Removing the sleeve reveals the inner insulated box

The inner insulation box

The message revealed

The chocolates had a very low melting point, so even a slightly warm room could cause a print to occur. Flat on one side and concave on the other, the chocolate was capable of printing either a ring or circle depending on the way it was placed – giving meaning to the phrase ’saying it with chocolate’.