I can’t believe my parents took me to see Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. I watched in horror as Wonka, a sadistic chocolatier, psychologically tortured children with presumably deadly consequences – while my parents laughed and laughed. I want a friendly chocolate maker. A chocolate I can love unconditionally, and not have to worry about Arthur Slugworth lurking in the shadows trying to entrap me. That’s where Chocri comes in. It’s an oompa loopma-free factory where they make custom candy bars out of organic, fair trade chocolate from Belgium. They even donate 1% of every chocolate bar to a charity that cares for homeless and orphaned children of the Ivory Coast. Now that’s a bedtime story any child would love.

With over 10 billion combinations, you can create the chocolate bar of your dreams -- or nightmares depending on what type of diet you’re on. This is how it works: First, you select your chocolate -- milk, white or dark. Then you add up to six toppings from categories like fruit, spices, nuts, grains and confections. We’re talking your usual suspects like peanuts and almonds but they’ve also got some refined palate pleasers like candied rose petals, dried goji berries, orange pepper, bourbon vanilla and (wait for it) bacon.

I’m grateful for Chocri because I was able to create the perfect candy bar from dark chocolate, bacon (no surprise there) plum bits, coconut, real gold flakes and a marzipan rose. You can name your candy bar whatever you like and they’ll print it on the packaging. As a nice reminder to myself, I named mine “Don’t eat this in one sitting.” The moral of the story is, Chocri will give you the chocolate treats of your childhood dreams, no golden ticket required.

That’s why I’m grateful for Chocri.