Is that Prada? No, it's chocolate.

The dainty half-ounce bags are inspired by the likes of Prada, Burberry, and Pucci. Almost too cute to eat, Wali's confections are the ultimate gift for women who love all things chocolate and will never have enough handbags.

Wali launched Choco Choco House about eight months ago and now ships her products internationally. Like all good handbag designers, Wali hopes to have basics in addition to seasonal lines and is now toying with a gold leaf motif for a Christmas product. "I try to keep rotating styles, because bags are seasonal," says Wali, who speaks like a fashionista about her product but is draped in a chocolate-spattered apron that was presumably once white.

Wali spends much of her 12-hour days learning about the textures and varieties of chocolates as she fuses the cocoa with eclectic tastes. "I love the different ranges of chocolate," she says. On the weekends, when she is not sampling, she misses the taste. "Chocolate is a substitute for love. I do get a buzz off it." Wali says she dabbles with various cocoa beans and experiments with patterns for handbags and fillings while working to understand the chemistry of the dark elixir in her confections.

Wali, who is 30-something, began her baking career in 1993, making desserts for Dali in Somerville, which her parents opened in the late 1980s. In the mid-'90s she opened Tokyo Kids, a toy store in Harvard Square, which she sold a few years back. About a year ago, she decided she wanted to return to baking. She still makes truffles for Dali and Cambridge's Cuchi Cuchi, co-owned by her mother.Wali's latest Pravda bag -- "It's a play on the word Prada," she says -- is a milk chocolate temptation with an irresistible pink crocodile-skin design. The bag is filled with a Stoli vodka ganache, sealed with an edible gold clasp, and topped with a pink ribbon strap. Wali's signature collection includes a British mod bag, a dark chocolate purse with Earl Grey and blue flower tea-steeped ganache. She draws inspiration from fashion magazines, which she browses through regularly.

Last October she introduced a milk chocolate bag with a pink ribbon strap to bring attention to breast cancer research.

The chocolate designer continually tests fillings but relies on a few favorites. The Grand Marnier bag, complete with orange-infused dark chocolate and a liqueur filling, is finished with an orange ribbon strap. One of Wali's most feminine bags, the Champagne purse, is a dark chocolate number stenciled with white stitching and a white bow. Its elegance is underscored in the Marc de Champagne filling and white strap. Each of Wali's chocolates is handmade. She doubts that any machine could do what she does on a busy day in her Somerville factory: assemble nearly 200 edible bags with their tiny ribbon handles. Two employees help her, and though one day she hopes to have a storefront, she doesn't have time to think about expansion -- though the idea of miniature shoes has occurred to her.

Choco Choco House handbags are sold in packages of two for $6, six for $17.95, and 12 for $35.95. They are sold at Flat of the Hill, 60 Charles St., 617-619-9977, or go to www.chocochocohouse.com.