January 2012
2 posts
Amma Chocolate 60% →
A superb bar of bitter-sweet chocolate from an amazing company. The local environment is central to the manufacture of this bar and wonderful flavours very much in evidence. You may also like:
Rogue Chocolatier Hispaniola 70% →
The Rogue Chocolatier AKA Colin Gasko makes chocolate the right way - with fairly basic machinery and without added ingredients to cheat the chocolate making process and manages to create some fine…
December 2011
12 posts
Artisan du Chocolat Gingerbread Cookies White... →
This Artisan du Chocolat Gingerbread Cookies White Chocolate is quite possibly my most favourite white chocolate bar of all time. I know its sweet, but unlike the others, there are various…
Devnaa Limited Edition Honey & Cardamom Fudge →
Devnaa never fail to surprise me with how wonderful their chocolate is. The flavours are mild but sufficient to give you a clear, smooth taste that doesn’t dominate your senses. They just produce…
Make Your Own Chocolate House →
This chocolate house making kit wasn’t as great as I’d hoped. The chocolate wasn’t great quality but it was still fin trying to put it all together. I don’t think my house would resist anything but…
Pierre Marcolini Four Tray Christmas Selection Box →
The Pierre Marcolini Four Tray Christmas Selection is certainly not for people content at buying a tin of Cadbury’s Roses. The chocolates that Pierre makes are fantastic, well packaged, expensive but…
The Best Chocolate of 2011 Award Commentary →
A housewife’s Review on Chocolat Bonnat Equateur →
A housewife’s review on Chocolat Bonnat Equateur from Dawn Woodgate. Dawn is an amateur baker but a full time chocolate lover. I hope you enjoy her review! You may also like:
Bonnat Hacienda…
Demarquette Araguani 72% →
This Demarquette Araguani 72% just didn’t do it for me, I found it uninteresting, a touch too brutish and without the variety of flavours one may have expected given the aroma. You may also like:
The Choccies – The Best Chocolate of 2011 →
So here is what I feel are the best chocolates of 2011 - of course from those I’ve reviewed! You may also like:
The Choccies – The Best Chocolate Of 2010
Hotel Chocolat Christmas 2011
The Chocolate Society Chocolate Covered Ginger →
These are perfect for a chocolate and ginger lover at Christmas, there is some great crunch whilst the quality of the Valrhona chocolate certainly ads to the experience. You may also like:
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Dolceria Bonajuto 70% Dark Chocolate →
This Dolceria Boajuto 70% Dark Chocolate is made using age old processes in Modica, Sicily and produces a sweet, rustic bar of chocolate - I just don’t think it’ll appeal to all. You may also…
Hipo Hyfryd Chocolates →
I thought these Hipo Hyfryd chocolates were wonderfully rustic and certainly something people should try if they’d like to step away from commercial chocolate. You may also like:
Butlers…
Pralus 75% Vanuatu →
This Pralus 75% Vanuatu dark chocolate was predominantly one that tasted of gingerbread with the occasional hint of orange. I loved that its from a different origin, but I’ll have to try more from…
November 2011
14 posts
Idilio Origins Finca Torres 72% →
This bar is far from complicated or offering extravagant flavours, its just a very well excuted luscious bar of dark chocolate from one of the word’s best cacao producing countries. You may also…
Christmas at Santa’s House →
These chocolate treats for children aren’t cheap, but they’re very enjoyable. The outer packaging is very engaging whilst the chocolates inside are wrapped perfectly for sharing or for keeping for…
Hortons Chocolate Rum Cake →
If you love rum cake then you really have to try the original from Horton’s in Bermuda You may also like:
Don Lorenzo Double Dipped Chocolate Rum Cake
Asda Chocolate Flower Pot Cake For…
Win A Christmas Chocolate Gift Hamper →
This is a competition for people who love chocolate and would really appreciate winning some for Christmas. You may also like:
[Closed] Win A Fudge Kitchen Hamper Worth £35.99
[Closed]…
Demarquette Festive Caramels →
For those of you who would like to give some fine chocolates at Christmas with a seasonal tone but don’t want to go down the route of giving something that is overtly Christmasy then you should…
Montezuma’s Peanut Butter Truffles →
I wasn’t supposed to like these. As they’re made with peanut butter they should have tasted too salty and overpowered the chocolate, but thankfully they didn’t. You may also like:
Charbonnel…
Cadbury's purple legal clash →
I never knew this was going on!
Chococo Christmas Crackle Tree →
If you think deeply about this Christmas chocolate Christmas tree then you’ll see how they’ve managed to combine so many different elements that should be appreciated: flavour, appearance and…
Lindt Chocolate Bear →
Who loves Lindt chocolate? There’ll certainly be a good number of people reading this blog that have bought and appreciated at least one of the Lindt golden chocolate figures. And there’s a reason…
Chocoholics sour on new Hershey’s formula →
And there’s a good reason too. I just can’t stand the stuff!
Chocolate Popping Candy Christmas Tree →
I just loved this. It’s made with good milk chocolate too - 44% from Grenada. If you get the chance to try it, I certainly would recommend it!
March 2010
21 posts
Easter Chocolate Chicken →
I’m just going to get the RSPCA on to the Chocolate Trading Co. for keeping chickens in plastic wrapping. Ok, we all know they’re not real chickens but they look scarily like a…
The Chocolate Cafe 70% Dark Chocolate →
I’ve been meaning to pop over to The Chocolate Cafe in Ramsbottom for a while – mainly because I love what they’re doing, and I like to support local (ok so its 30 miles away)…
La Maison Du Chocolat Akosombo 68% Dark Chocolate... →
I might have not liked the buying experience from the time I popped in to buy some chocolate from the La Maison du Chocolat store but I did like the Talamanca Noisettes 37% Milk…
Galler Mini Easter Eggs →
I must say I wasn’t the biggest fan of their chocolate truffles and I was glad to be given a second chance with their mini Easter eggs. I’m partial to the odd mini egg, but to place…
Matcha Chocolat Emperor’s Selection →
The problem I have is that I have a mountain of chocolate in the office. I’ve got truffles, selection boxes, blocks of chocolate and various other bits and bobs I’ve picked up on my …
Superior Quality Milk Chocolate Easter Rabbit with... →
Gareth and Paul run Chocolate Trading Co. and they’re great people. I often find myself just ‘wondering’ around their online shop thinking what I’d buy if I didn’t already have loads of chocolate…
Hotel Chocolat Rocky Road To Caramel Extra Thick... →
I reviewed the Rocky Road to Caramellow Extra Thick Easter Egg last year and all that seems to have changed is the name and the packaging – everything else is just as fantastic! The…
A Week In Chocolate – Early February 2010 →
What I’ve been up to
The past week has been a hectic one with dashing around the country for my day job and then popping over for a fantastic day in Alfreton to visit the wonderful…
Minerva Chocolate Selection →
So I was in Bath last week and visited the Minerva Chocolate Shop and brought back a sample of twelve of their ganaches and bon bons. Here’s a run through of what I bought, and what I can remember…
Thorntons Tonka Bean Milk Chocolate Bar →
To be honest, before I received this 38% milk chocolate bar from Thorntons I had no idea what a Tonka bean, in fact, I never knew they existed. But what was interesting is that…
Galler Chocolate Truffles →
I bought these Galler Chocolate Truffles in Harrods when I was down on my chocolate mystery shopping tour and they weren’t cheap at £9.95 from Harrods (what did you expect?). When I was…
Fudge Kitchen Boozy Fruit & Nut Fudge →
During my trip to the Fudge Kitchen in Bath I picked up four slabs of fudge and some toffee fudge sauce and it’s been a manic week since then and I’ve only just found time to review one of…
Thorntons Chocolate Factory Tour And Chocolate... →
So today I, amongst other chocolate and food bloggers, were invited to a tour of the Thorntons factory in Alfreton, Derbyshire and to meet their master chocolatier Keith, the bods in the…
Thorntons I Love Mum Chocolate Cups →
These I Love Mum Chocolate Cups weren’t supposed to be nice. I thought they’d just be fairly average chocolate seeing as they’re only £2.99 and don’t have the appearance of pretty damn…
Thorntons White Chocolate Fruit Bars →
I’m just working through my collection of chocolate bars which I haven’t had time to review before but which are coming to the end of their best before dates. Today I’ll try the…
Thorntons White Fruit Chocolate Bars →
Actually very good considering they’re white chocolate and I normally don’t like it. If you like fruit white chocolate then give them a go!
Melt Chocolates Truffles & Bon Bon Selection Box →
When I met up with the wonderful Louise aka The Chocolate Consultant she kindly gave me this selection box of what I think was 19 chocolate truffles and bon bons (I think they’re 19 as I…
Chocolate Photos →
This is where I collate all the photos that aren’t agood enough for here!
Melt Chocolates Truffles & Bon Bon Selection Box →
I just loved these chocolate truffles, ganaches and bon bons from Melt Chocolates.