This year’s Valentine’s Day we took a 25-minute journey to The Ghirardelli Chocolate outlet in Lathrop off I-5. As we walked through the entrance the aroma of chocolate and warm cookies filled our noses. Throughout the store, there are items from baking necessities to specialized chocolate based on the season as well as sweet desserts. There are individual chocolate squares at around 5 dollars per half a pound with various flavors such as crème brûlée, strawberry bark, caramel, sea salt, peppermint, raspberry, mint filling, dark chocolate, and many more.

The Crissy Field Cookie Bits Sundae caught our eyes on the desert-filled menu. Based on three scoops of ice cream, two of their cookies n’ cream and one creamy vanilla. Handmade hot chocolate fudge is drizzled onto the ice cream and topped with fluffy whipped cream intertwined with chocolate chip cookie chunks and two milk chocolate caramel minis. But that is not where it ends, it is finished off with premium chocolate chip cookies itself, and gooey yet crispy Brownies to top it. 

Similar to the Land of Milk and Cookies to fulfill the needs of your sweet tooth, we rate this chocolate establishment 10/10.