Zvieri Box Classic

Planned contents

These are the planned contents. Nothing has been bought yet: we only buy once enough boxes are pre-ordered. Before pre-orders open, we will show every piece here with its maker, ingredients and allergens.

• Milk chocolate from Geneva

  From: Geneva

  A bar of milk chocolate.

  Who makes it: From a Geneva chocolate house that has been making chocolate since 1826.

  In 1819 François-Louis Cailler opened one of Switzerland's first chocolate factories in Corsier near Vevey, and Neuchâtel, Geneva and Lausanne soon followed.

• Bretzeli (thin butter wafers)

  From: Bern

  Thin, crisp butter wafers.

  Who makes it: From a family biscuit company in the Emmental, founded in 1910. It all began with Bretzeli made to a family recipe.

  In the Emmental they are called Bretzeli, in French-speaking Switzerland bricelets. The two names have shaped each other.

• Basler Läckerli (spiced honey biscuits)

  From: Basel

  Firm little gingerbread biscuits with honey, nuts and candied peel under a thin sugar glaze.

  Who makes it: From a Basel Läckerli house founded in 1904 that still bakes and packs with a lot of hand work.

  People like to say they were invented for the Council of Basel in the 15th century. The records in the Basel state archives show, though, that their ingredients could not even be bought in Basel at the time.

• Hüppen (filled wafer rolls)

  From: Thurgau

  Paper-thin rolled wafers with a hazelnut and chocolate filling.

  Who makes it: From a Thurgau Hüppen bakery founded in 1928. Every wafer is baked on its own, no thicker than 0.7 millimetres.

  In 1748 they were sold at the Zurich markets to the cry of «Hüp!», as the engraver David Herrliberger recorded.

• Graubünden nut tartlet

  From: Graubünden

  A gift box of tiny nut tartlets: shortcrust with walnuts in caramel and cream, each tartlet wrapped on its own.

  Who makes it: From a village bakery in Sedrun that the son took over from his father in 2004.

  Its story belongs to the Engadine confectioners who for centuries emigrated to Venice, Italy and France and brought recipes home.

We only send pieces that keep for at least four more weeks after they arrive.

How the box arrives

1. A sturdy shipping carton, so nothing breaks on the way.
2. Inside, the specialities, each in its maker's own pack, wrapped in tissue paper and closed with our seal.
3. On top, a card numbered and signed by hand. If you write a message when you order, it is written inside by hand.
4. And the booklet on heavy paper, with a page for every piece: where it comes from, who makes it and how it tastes best.
5. No invoice and no price, so it stays a gift.

Allergens

Expected to contain: Gluten (wheat, barley), milk, egg, almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts. May contain traces of peanuts, soy, pistachios and other nuts.

The Läckerli contain a little kirsch (cherry brandy).