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This lovely little custom chocolate shop is the perfect place to pick up something sweet for your sweeties back home. The Chocolate Gecko’s creative truffle fillings—absinthe, brandied cherries, rum and coconut, tequila and lime—are a palette-pleasing surprise. Kids will love the creative molds some of the chocolates come in: toasted pecans drenched in caramel and chocolate and placed in a tortoise mold, a strawberry and guava chocolate treat molded in the shape of a tree frog and a dark chocolate shaped as a mouse and filled with spicy pepper, cinnamon and real vanilla extract.