This Valentine’s Day, spice things up with decadent rum-infused treats by Don Papa Rum and Oodaalolly chocolates. If your sweetheart has a sweet tooth, you can now purchase Don Papa’s dark chocolate bar ($6) and truffles ($12/ pack of 5) just in time for date night.

Combining Filipino cacao and rum, each confection is carefully crafted with traditional Swiss chocolate-making techniques and just the right amount of Philippine coconut sugar to yield exquisite flavors that melt in your mouth. Don Papa’s aromas of honey, citrus, and candied fruit are even more pronounced in the limited-edition bonbons. Delicately folded into each bite, Don Papa is the perfect complement to the chocolate’s caramel-almond notes and toasted vanilla finish.

For the extra step Mixologist Tomas Delos Reyes has crafted three delicious cocktails to get the mood going. Whenever, Wherever, Whatever; Sweetest Taboo and L.L.R. (Let Love Rule) all feature delectable ingredients such as raspberry, orange curaçao, strawberry, and more, to complement the chocolates and your favorite romantic tunes.

Dark Chocolate Truffles featuring Don Papa Rum, $12.00
Oodaalolly crafted these truffles using premium ingredients and a time-honored technique. Each truffle has a mature and seductive flavor that melts in your mouth. A rich dark mousse enrobed in even darker chocolate in perfect balance with Don Papa Rum’s unmistakable flavor.
Each flight—2.5 oz / 72 g—contains five individually wrapped rum-infused truffles.

70% Cacao Dark Chocolate with Don Papa Rum, $6.00
Oodaalolly crafted this small-batch, single-origin chocolate using rare ingredients and a refined technique. The taste is unmistakable and memorable, like the Philippines and her people. They soak prize Davao grown trinitario cacao in Don Papa, a rum itself aged seven years in the foothills of Mount Kanlaon.
Each bar—0.6 oz / 18 g—comes in an individual heat-sealed pouch.

Click to purchase Don Papa 7 here, $34.00

Whenever, Wherever, Whatever

1.5oz Don Papa 7

3/4oz honey syrup(1:1 Honey/Hot water)

1/4oz lime juice

5 raspberries

Muddle raspberries in a shaker and add ingredients. Shake and double strain into Collins glass. Top with Champagne, spray rose water over the cocktail. Garnish with remaining raspberries.

This cocktail is light and easy to drink on its own but works well with the truffles!

Sweetest Taboo

1.5oz Don Papa 7

3/4oz orange curaçao

2 dashes of Mole Bitters

Add all in mixing glass. Stir well. Strain into Cordial glass. Garnish with an orange peel expressed.

Spirit forward. Silky. This cocktail is on the sweeter side but pairs great with the truffles!

L.L.R. (Let Love Rule)

2oz Don Papa 7

2 strawberries

3/4oz salted caramel syrup (simple syrup made with brown sugar & smoked sea salt)

1/2oz lime juice

2 dashes Chocolate Bitters

Muddle strawberries. Add remaining ingredients. Shake double strain into a rocks glass over fresh ice. Garnish with sliced strawberry. This cocktail is medium-bodied and pairs well with the dark cacao bark