It’s been a while since I did a round-up of chocolate treats. I’ve had a few sent to me in my time and now feels like a good time to let you know about them all. You’re sure to find something here that you’ll love, or if not, the perfect gift for a loved one.
This mega review of chocolate treats is an amalgamation of several posts from the Chocolate Log Blog days.
Hokey Pokey from the Chocolate Society
A very tempting and pretty bag of Hokey Pokey arrived in the post recently from the Chocolate Society. I’m a big fan of honeycomb, but often find the commercial stuff too sweet for me these days. When I was younger and had a sweeter tooth, the inevitable Crunchie bars were one of my favourites.
Now when I see lovley crunchy, light golden, perforated chunks of sweetness it brings back nostalgic memories of childhood sweet making. How I used to marvel at the bubbling, frothing toffee when the bicarb was added; it looked like the next best thing to witnessing a lava flow.
It was all I could do not to get stuck into this straight away, especially when I unwrapped the package and a sweet and chocolatey aroma pervaded my senses. It was not long after taking the obligatory photos that my resistance ran out. Mmmm, pure heaven.
This honeycomb is a rather more sophisticated version of the Crunchie bar and is covered in Valrhona’s 40% milk chocolate which is not anything like as sweet and contains a lot more cocoa. The honeycomb was perfect, just the right amount of caramel notes and a good texture – I have nearly broken my teeth on hard lumps in the past. The verdict? This is one yummy bag of deliciousness.
I have to say I wolfed these down rather faster than I should have and CT only got a small look in. He thought the honeycomb was more fragrant than your average Crunchie bar and the chocolate was thicker, creamier and tastier. Chocolate treats indeed.
Madécasse Toasted Coconut Chocolate Treats
Since I was first introduced to Madécasse earlier this year, it has become one of my favourite chocolate brands. Not only are the Madécasse chocolate bars deeply flavoursome, but the company has an ethical stance that I can relate to. You can read more about it in my chocolate bars you need to know about post.
The milk chocolate has a distinctive smell and taste that reminds me of buttermilk. In fact all of the chocolate I have tried from Madagascar has that certain distinctive note. The bar is deeply flavoursome with a slight buttermilk aroma as well as that of tropical coconut. It tasted just as delicious as I expected. I.m a real sucker for coconut chocolate after all. The coconut here was not a flavouring however, it was the real thing, toasted and scattered across the top.
Madécasse bars are available at Waitrose and retail at £2.99, though I notice they are on offer at the moment at £2.29.
Vorrei
Italian food has to be one of the best in the world, it’s certainly one of my favourites. Finding authentic high quality Italian ingredients isn’t always easy. Vorrei are a new online Italian food shop selling products ethically sourced from small scale Italian suppliers and farms.
I noticed many of their products are organic too – bene. I was glad to see they have a particularly pleasing chocolate selection.
Giuliette (Colavolpe) – dried oven-baked figs, walnuts, sugar, cocoa butter, Bronte pistachios, powdered milk, lactose and milk proteins, flavouring, soy lecithin, colouring E131.
The Colavolpe family have been making figgy confections now for three generations. Based in Calabria, one of their signature ingredients is the dottato fig, a small but tasty variety that grows particularly well in that region.
I adore figs and pistachios both, so these little parcels of sumptuousness all wrapped up in white chocolate are just the sort of thing likely to appeal to me. The dried figs are stuffed with a mixture of walnuts, pistachios and white chocolate, then enrobed in more white chocolate.
Despite the minimal amount of pistachio in the filling, (only 5%), the flavour was still detectable. Personally, I’d prefer a higher percentage of pistachio. I also wish they’d omit the food colouring. That aside, I enjoyed these so much I really didn’t want to share. So poor CT didn’t get much of a look in. The outer chocolate is a good foil for the richer chewy fig within.
I found the packaging almost as appealing. Wrapped individually in pistachio coloured foil lined paper, the figs nestled in a similarly coloured box.
A box of 12, weighing 250g costs £10.50.
Champagne Truffles
A small box I’d been awaiting with some anticipation, was finally delivered by the postman. The Chocolate were sending me some of their luxurious dark chocolate truffles complete with real gold for review purposes.
As I opened the box a wonderful aroma of fruity chocolate wafted upwards making me feel like I was in for a treat. This is a smell I associate with good quality chocolate. I was a little disappointed to find only two fairly small truffles in the box, but they were flaked in 24 carat gold and this gave them the lustre of real luxury. And sometimes less is more.
Biting through the shell, I savoured their sophisticated dark, rich and not too sweet qualities. The chocolate was tangy with wonderful fruity notes and had a slight refreshing tartness about it. The beauty of these chocolates was more than skin deep, the smooth creamy ganache had a noticeably bubbly champagne persona. The flavours lingered on long after the chocolate had disappeared, another sign of good quality chocolate in my experience.
These are handmade artisan truffles at their finest. The chocolate used is award winning Toscano Black 63% from Italy; the ganache ingredients are a closely guarded secret. Eating these chocolates make you feel good just by their sheer luxury and deliciousness, but you can find out more about the well-being benefits claimed for both the chocolate and the gold here. My only complaint was that two, just weren’t quite enough. CT didn’t get a look in.
Geert Chocolates
Last month, I won six Geert chocolates from Mostly About Chocolate. I haven’t had high quality artisan filled chocolates for a while so I relished these. They came in a cute little transparent box too. Thank you Judith.
Daintree Estates – smooth slightly caramel flavoured truffle.
Spotty green – praline with something I couldn’t quite decipher.
Madre – dark and bitter truffle with an unusual but exciting citrus like flavour I couldn’t identify.
Golf – praline with crunchy feuilletine and crystaline texture that tasted slightly peanutbuttery.
Ceibo – dark chocolate truffle – tasted of rum & raisin with a hint of orange, but far more sophisticated than the bars of Old Jamaica I used to love as a child.
Beans Original – a truffle with an odd flavour which again I couldn’t identify.
Guylian Sea Shells
Vegetarian I might be, but I am not averse to devouring creatures in chocolate form. When I was offered a box of Guylian’s signature chocolate sea shells* to review I was not going to say no. Indeed, these were the high treat of the decade when I was young and I felt very privileged to partake on the odd occasion they were offered at family events.
I received a 250g box of 22 shapely chocolate sea shells containing praline. The shells are beautifully swirled in white and milk chocolates to create a stunning multi coloured effect. The shells come in 11 unique shapes, I say shells, but two of them are in the form of seahorses.
Seahorses are very important to Guylian who are the main sponsor of Project Seahorse. As its name suggests, this marine conservation organisation aims to protect seahorses which are a good indicator of healthy coastal ecosystems. By protecting these wonderful little creatures, they also help to protect the world’s oceans.
Although these days, pralines are generally a little too sweet for my taste, these were nonetheless delicious. They had a lovely smooth texture that is still oddly reminiscent of the crunch of hazelnuts. This could be because their taste is really quite powerful and remains in the mouth long after the chocolate has faded away.
The ingredients speak for themselves, you will not find any vegetable fats here, oh no, just sugar, hazelnuts and chocolate made with milk and cocoa butter to the same original recipe first used when Guylian was founded in 1960 by husband and wife team Guy & Liliana Foubert. There are a number of lookalikes on the market, but none of them can begin to compare with Guylian. Without mincing words, they are just not as good.
Beech’s Chocolate Brazils
Brazil nuts are quite high in selenium which is said to keep the blues at bay. They’re thus particularly welcome at this time of year when the days are short and often dull in our part of the Northern Hemisphere. To my mind, Christmas is not complete without a good box of chocolate covered Brazils – for medicinal purposes naturally.
I’m rather fond of these delightful nuts, especially when covered in chocolate. CT is even more fond of them and is unable to resist buying them from time to time – Christmas or no Christmas. So I was delighted when I found a parcel of Beech’s Fine Chocolates in the post, just in time for the festive season.
They came in both 90g and 140g boxes of milk and dark chocolate. Interestingly the dark Brazils were of a more or less uniform size whereas the milk ranged hugely from really quite small to really quite large. We both tucked in eagerly.
The nuts were nice and crisp and tasted fresh. Stale, rancid Brazil nuts can be a bit of a problem, but not in this case. The milk 33% chocolate was creamy but not overly sweet and went well with the slight bitterness of the nuts. There was a good contrast of textures with the smoothness of the chocolate and the crunchiness of the Brazils. We both really liked these and reckoned they were the best chocolate Brazils we had tasted for some time.
The dark 67% chocolate had a strong aromatic smell and the texture was crisp rather than creamy. The overall effect was quite different to the milk. They were also very tasty, but the nuts were not centre stage, as the dark chocolate had its own bitter notes that somewhat overpowered the flavour of the nut.
They were, however, less sweet, which I generally find more palatable. That said, the milk chocolates were our favourite as the flavours were, we felt, better balanced.
Beech’s Fine Chocolates
Beech’s Fine Chocolates have been making traditional British chocolates in Preston since 1920. They pride themselves on using natural raw ingredients with no artificial colours or flavours. They have a string of ethical certifications including buying from UTZ farmers (better farming, better future) and a care for the environment. However, I noticed the Fairtrade logo was missing.
They supply own-label chocolates for a number of high street retailers including Waitrose and Marks & Spencer as well as chocolates under their own brand.
A 260g box of chocolate Brazils costs £5.99 from their website, which seems eminently reasonable to me.
If you fancy having a go at making your own, I have a fabulous recipes for homemade chocolate caramel brazils.
Chocolate Mad Cowes
Following a Twitter conversation about the delights of chocolate salted caramels Chocolate Mad Cowes sent me a sample box of their artisan caramel chocolates. Once again, I really liked the packaging. After all, I can’t resist a bonny turquoise box tied with ribbon. Are you listening CT?
As their name suggests, this chocolate shop is based in the international yachting centre of Cowes on the Isle of Wight. I don’t know whether these came over on a yacht, but they were a little bit scattered and scuffed on arrival. No matter, ultimately, it’s all in the taste.
As regular readers will know, good salted caramels are my Achilles heel. Given the opportunity, I’ll eat them anywhere at any time. Luckily motive and opportunity rarely coincide. I was, however, looking forward to trying the selection offered.
On opening the box, I found an interesting variety with centres that were chewy, soft and almost liquid. The caramels are covered in Valrhona dark and milk chocolate. Both CT and I enjoyed all of them, but thought the plain chocolate ones had the edge as they helped to counteract the sweetness of the caramel.
Plain Chocolate Pecan Turtles
The soft, but not runny caramel had a good rich flavour with the toffee note coming through almost immediately. It was not too sweet and the pecans’ bitter hints were both a good flavour foil and produced a contrasting crunchy texture.
Salt Caramel Bouchees
These squares of salty milk and dark chocolate were firmer, chewier and sweeter than the turtles, but still quite toothsome.
Salt Caramel Spheres
The most liquid of the lot, these were my favourite. They were not too sweet and had a hint of the sea about them. Perfectly smooth, these work worked well with the plain and milk chocolate. CT thought he detected oaky tannins that reminded him of whisky.
Barú Chocolate Treats
Barú is a Belgium confectionary company that has recently developed a new range of high end marshmallow confectionary in time for – shhhh – Christmas. The range is available at Harvey Nichols, Wholefoods and selected independent retailers. Waitrose stocks the dark, milk and sea salt caramel marshmallows.
The packaging is light and fun. Individually wrapped, the marshmallows come in boxes of four (54g) and cost £2.99. The hippos come in a 45g box of three individually wrapped pieces and cost £3. Ideal stocking fillers all.
Milk Chocolate Wrapped Marshmallow Clouds – The thin coating of chocolate works particularly well here. It means that you can enjoy the marshmallow without it being overwhelmed by the chocolate. The marshmallow itself is fluffy, as the name implies, but also chewy and without being overly glutinous as some marshmallows are.
Fleur de Sel Caramel Wrapped Marshmallow Clouds – The chocolate tasted stronger and was a good combination with the sweet marshmallow. There was only a smidgen of salted caramel, which was a shame: the salt was detectable, but not really the caramel. It was pleasant enough, but I couldn’t see see the advantage of having it – it’s a distraction from the marshmallow itself.
Dark Chocolate Forest Berry Caramel Hippo – Extremely cute and cuddly chocolate hippos were filled with a delicious fruity liquid caramel. They tasted slightly salty (although this wasn’t mentioned in the ingredients). I really enjoyed this one.
Owow Chocolates
A cute little box containing six chocolate treats arrived in the post accompanied by a leaflet about chocolate parties for kids. Now that does seem like a good idea. What kid wouldn’t enjoy covering themselves, as well as their favourite biscuits, with chocolate? Looking at their website, it seems that in addition to this service, Owow create personalised chocolates to order.
Their speciality is covering pieces of cake or biscuits, specifically oreo biscuits, with Belgian chocolate. I was sent two cake wrapped flavours to try. The list of ingredients on the back was quite large, but with cake included in the mix, this was only to be expected. The chocolate itself contained only sugar, cocoa butter, whole milk powder, cocoa mass, soya lecithin and natural vanilla flavouring.
Owow – We thought the differing textures of crunchy chocolate and soft cake worked very nicely and the flavour of hazelnut was pleasant. A nice concept and the sort of thing I would have loved as a child, but they were a little too sweet for old fogeys like us.
Caymana – Again the concept of this chocolate was very good and the name conjured up the flavours of the Caribbean well. On first tasting, CT cried, “Caribbean plum cakes”. There was a nice fruity flavour with a noticable dash of rum. However, the proportion of cake to chocolate was very small and the chocolate, being very thick, rather overwhelmed the flavour of the cakes.
Potash Farm Chocolate Treats
Last year I reviewed some Kentish cobnut fudge from Potash Farm in Kent. This year I’ve been sent something even more exciting – chocolate treats and honey.
Cobnuts are a type of hazelnut that grows particularly well in Kent. They lend themselves to all sorts of delicious treats. Weighing in at 120g each, the chocolate bars were quite sizeable. The chocolate is made by Linton Chocolate, but the cobnuts come from the farm.
Single origin Ghana chocolate bar with Kentish Cobnuts
sugar, cocoa butter, dry whole milk, cocoa mass (40%), soya lecithin, natural vanilla flavour, Kentish cobnuts
A high cocoa content milk chocolate bar is almost guaranteed to please me and this one with its crunchy tasty cobnuts did not disappoint. The chocolate was creamy and whilst it didn’t have any outstanding characteristics, it didn’t need to, as the uber tasty cobnuts were the real star of the show.
Single origin Ecuador chocolate bar with Kentish Cobnuts
cocoa mass (70.4%), sugar, cocoa butter, natural vanilla flavour, Kentish cobnuts
This was much darker and richer than the previous bar and the chocolate had more depth of flavour too. It had a smooth mouthfeel and was not at all bitter. It complemented the cobnuts well, but gave them quite a different taste to the milk chocolate bar. More of a duet than a solo.
Despite my love of milk chocolate, this dark and luscious bar was my favourite. The nuts encourage a healthy munching and I found this didn’t last nearly as long as I thought it would.
Kentish Honey with Potash Farm Cobnuts
Two simple ingredients, honey and cobnuts, but what a rich and complex flavour. I particularly enjoyed the heady aroma that made me almost swoon with delight when the lid was first removed. It tastes and smells like authentic honey straight out of the beehive, said CT. And who can resist honey coated hazelnuts – we couldn’t.
Added to natural yogurt or ice-cream, these nuts turn a simple dish into a sophisticated and highly pleasurable treat. This would make an ideal gift for a honey lover.
Chocolate and Kentish Cobnut Fudge
sugar, evaporated milk, Kentish cobnuts, single cream, condensed milk, butter, cocoa powder, sea salt, vanilla seeds
We have been noticing lots of hazelnuts in the hedgerows around here in East Cornwall, so we’ve surmised it must be a good year for them. Normally the squirrels get to them before we do.
Hopefully this isn’t the case at Potash Farm, a leading producer of Kentish cobnuts, which I was very pleased to find is a Soil Association registered organic farm. Not only that, but it has the distinction of being the only farm to carry this status for cobnuts.
Cobnuts are a type of large hazelnut traditionally grown in Kent and were particularly prized by the Victorians for their superior taste. They are harvested and sold both in their green juicy state for eating in late summer or in their dehusked and mature state for Autumn and Christmas consumption.
Along with such other chocolatey delights as their chocolate enrobed caramelised cobnuts, Potash Farm have recently launched this chocolate and Kentish cobnut fudge. Pairing chocolate and hazelnuts is a classic and much loved combination. So, how do they match up in fudge?
Well the two testers in this house gave it the thumbs up and one had to be physically restrained from finishing the bag off all by him/herself. It’s easy to see why: this fudge is rich and chocolatey with the added bonus of an interesting texture delivered by little pieces of chewy cobnuts. Once the crumbly yet creamy fudge has disappeared there are still cobnut fragments to chew on – a piece of fudge lasts longer than you might expect.
A 200g bag costs £5.25 or £10 for two from their online shop which includes free delivery.
Dobbies Strawberries & Champagne Milk Chocolate Bar
To celebrate their 150th anniversary and to coincide with Wimbledon this year, Dobbies Carden Centres came up with this rather wonderful idea of a celebration Strawberries & Champagne milk chocolate bar. The chocolate is mildly flavoured with strawberries and Champagne, but its piece de resistance was the popping candy which exploded in the mouth giving the illusion of Champagne bubbles.
The chocolate has a perfectly acceptable 33.6% cocoa solids and was fun to eat. It costs £2.29 and is available at Dobbies Garden Centres.
Niederegger Marzipan
I was sent two bars of Niederegger marzipan to review a few months ago, a 40g milk chocolate stick and a 100g bar covered in plain chocolate. Niederegger is a German company whose pedigree goes back to 1806 and is still run by the same family in Lübeck where it all started.
Famed for its marzipan which is substantially higher in almonds and lower in sugar than many brands, it continues to sell a range of marzipan products. Rather stupidly, I disposed of the wrappers before writing down the ingredients, so I am unable to give them here.
The milk chocolate marzipan didn’t really do it for me. Marzipan is one of the things where I infinitely prefer plain chocolate as my accompaniment. The milk chocolate in this case was just too sweet and also rather chunky. I found that the ratio of marzipan to chocolate was too low and detracted from the glory of the obviously excellent marzipan.
The plain chocolate version is much more to my taste. The marzipan was very much the main event and just a thin covering of plain chocolate gave it a welcome edge. The marzipan has a good texture and a nice almond flavour without being overpowered by excessive amounts of almond extract. It wasn’t particularly sweet either which I find is often the case with bought marzipan.
All in all, I’d say, with Christmas just around the corner, this marzipan bar is a perfect stocking filler.
Seed and Bean Chocolate Treats
Seed and Bean is a company I highly approve of. I’ve reviewed several of their 85g organic chocolate bars before. The chocolate is both tasty and of good quality. They also come in a range of interesting flavours.
But more than that, they are organically certified by the Soil Association and the only UK chocolate company to receive 100% ethical accreditation from The Ethical Company Organisation. This means, in their own words “we give a really fair deal to cocoa farmers, whilst fully respecting the rural environment, both in the UK and overseas”.
Cornish Sea Salt – (70% dark chocolate)
cocoa mass, raw cane sugar, cocoa butter, smoked sea salt, soya lecithin, vanilla extract
With my patriotic Cornish hat on, I was very pleased to see that Seed and Bean were using Cornish sea salt in another of their bars. The chocolate is smooth and melts sumptuously in the mouth. It’s not in the least bit bitter, which is generally a sign of good quality dark chocolate.
I’m unable to eat more than a square of some sea salted bars I’ve tried as they are just too salty, but here the salt takes a supporting role. There is a subtle note of smokiness that enriches the experience. This is a bar to savour and delight in.
Lavender – (72% dark chocolate)
cocoa mass, cane sugar, cocoa butter, vanilla extract, lavender oil soya lecithin
Lavender is one of those flavours that you either like or dislike. Liking most things herbal, I’m rather partial to it as long as it’s not too overpowering. This one is quite strong, the scent emanates from the bar as soon as it is opened and you can certainly taste the lavender.
Both CT and I felt it was a bit too much and thus better suited to baking into a chocolate lavender cake than savouring on its own. Lavender, I’ve found works very nicely in this form as demonstrated by this chocolate lavender cake.
Prices for these 85g bars are around £2.30.
Chillilicious
Scotland’s first chilli farm has a name that immediately appeals to me. It’s no secret, I’m a chilli head. After all, next to garlic, chillies are the most important crop we grow.
Chillilicious not only has the distinction of being the most northerly chilli farm in Europe, but it is run by a team of women. Mother and daughter, Patricia and Stacey Galfskiy grow chillies in an environmentally sustainable way and make a variety of products from them. One such is a chocolate bar using the infamous naga – the world’s hottest chilli.
Heaven & Hell – (dark chocolate, 53.8% cocoa)
cocoa mass, sugar, cocoa butter, soya lecithin, natural vanilla. (white chocolate, 28%) sugar, cocoa butter , whole milll powder, soya lecithin, natural vanilla. Naga chilli
A mix of dark and white chocolate, this bar is topped by dried naga chilli and swirled artfully together. It looks very attractive. The dark chocolate also contains chilli as well as being topped by it. The idea is that the white chocolate soothes the mouth after you’ve eaten the fiery dark part.
Chilli fiend that I am, I was slightly concerned about trying this bar – I have heard stories. Well, it didn’t quite blow my head of, but it nearly did. My throat caught fire almost immediately after the chocolate hit my mouth. But the sensation of hot chilli together with both dark and sweet white chocolate is quite exciting. Not something I’d want every day, but as an occasional wake up, it’s an experience worth having.
Available from the Chillilicious online shop at £4 for a 100g bar.
Ohso Chocolate Treats
A handful of teeny tiny bars of chocolate recently arrived in the post. Little bars of 53% dark Belgian chocolate, but they contain a small dark secret. They are not hand crafted artisan bars featuring single origin estate chocolate, although that would be nice. No, you eat these bars for your health. Some of us have been deluding ourselves for years that this is our main reason for eating chocolate.
The Ohso claim? Weighing in at 13.5g and containing 72 calories a bar, they are packed full of healthy gut probiotics and these good bacteria last three times longer in chocolate than in milk products. This means that they arrive in better shape at the part of your gut where they do their good works. Plus chocolate is well known for its antioxidants and vitamins including D and E. These are, therefore, perhaps the ultimate chocolate detox.
Packaged in packs of seven, the idea is that you have one for each day of the week, providing your daily probiotic requirement. The mini bars are divided into 24 mini squares, which is a fantastic idea if you like to savour your chocolate or are an inveterate nibbler. Retailing at £3.99, these are available online at Ohso and also in health food shops and other independent retailers.
OK, so enough of the health benefits, what do they actually taste like? The bar certainly smells chocolatey. As soon as I removed the wrapper I discovered a sweet aroma drifting upwards. As soon as I tasted the chocolate, my first impressions were confirmed. It is pleasant with fruity notes, but is a little too sweet for me and resembles some of the mainstream dark chocolate bars which are widely available.
Tried Any Of These Chocolate Treats? Let Us Know
Thank you for visiting Tin and Thyme. If you try any of the chocolate highlighted in this mega review of chocolate treats, I’d love to hear about it in the comments below. What did you think?
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Thanks to the various brands for sending me some of their chocolate treats to try out over the years. I was not required to write a favourable review and as always, all opinions are my own.
CityHippyFarmGirl says
Crikey, I haven’t had a crunchie for years. Now honeycomb chocolate is going to sit wedged in my head…until I get myself a ‘yummy bag of deliciousness’!
C says
Oooh, yum! Crunchies are lovely but these sound so much better. I ought to have a go at making my own honeycomb just so I can cover it in my favourite dark chocolate. I bet Green and Blacks ginger would be good. Love the way the pieces are all random sizes!
JaynesDen says
I really love honeycomb, especially those lovely big chunks covered in chocolate. I may have to go to the market later to buy some.
oxslip says
OMG. (I haven’t typed that in a while). yikes, how am I going to resist that special offer? I love honeycomb
celia says
Valrhona Crunchie sounds like an AMAZING concept!!
Kath says
I am in heaven looking at that half eaten piece. I need some choc coated honeycomb and I need it NOW!
Emmyw says
I’ll be popping into our ‘Ye Olde Sweet Shoppe’ in town today to get some delicious honeycomb!!! I bet the higher cocoa content in the chocolate really balances with the sweetness of the honeycomb! Delicious!
Charlene F says
Looks like you had a fab time trying all these delicious chocolates 🙂 x
Choclette says
Indeed Charlene 😉
Poyma says
They all sound so intriguing! Thanks Chockette for livening up my breakfast table this morning!
Choclette says
Haha, glad to have helped Poyma 😉
Sylvia F. says
Everything looks scrumptious there but what I would love to try is: Sea Salted Chocolate (I’m real sucker for those!) and food of the gods looks super interesting! Thanks for lovely round up Choclette! x
Choclette says
Thanks Sylvia – I’m a sucker for sea salted chocolate too and this one was particularly good. The raw chocolate was pretty good too though.
Choclette says
Ah that’s my job Sophie to let you all know about the lesser known and usually far more interesting chocolate that is out there.
Bintu @ Recipes From A Pantry says
What lovely chocolatey good you got. I would eat them all but I am particularly intrigued by the Giuliette and the Betty and Walter choccies.
Choclette says
Sad thing is, I’ve completely run out now Bintu. The Giuliette and B&W were both particularly interesting for being a little exotic.
Katie says
Some interesting chocolate there. I love the sound of the Giuliette stuffed figs. They sound amazing!
Choclette says
Those figs are just gorgeous Katie.
Michelle Murray says
What a lovely review of some delicious chocolates
Choclette says
Thank you Michelle.
Lou, Eat Your Veg says
Oh your job is such a toughie, having to try all these fabulous new and intriguing chocolates! I do love a piece or two of chilli chocolate so the Heaven and Hell sounds very appealing, as does another fave of mine sea salt and chocolate in the Seeds and Beans bars.
Choclette says
I know Lou, I have such a hard time. I do really appreciate the chance to try chocolate I may otherwise not even have heard of – especially such interesting ones.
Janice Pattie says
Some lovely flavours in these chocolate bars, a great review round up.
Choclette says
Thanks Janice 🙂
Sarah James says
The Food of the Gods chocolate sounds delicious & just up my street. Not so sure about the Heaven & Hell bar even tho I love chilli, you’re braver than me !
Choclette says
Thanks Sarah. Food of the Gods is a good choice. As for the chilli bar, it certainly wakes you up.