Made from real chocolate at home, Askinosie hot chocolate is a delight you can enjoy anytime.  It uses real chocolate disks mixed with milk to create the perfect hot chocolate. By taking the chocolate disks and melting them before adding the hot milk slowly and carefully, you start by creating a paste of the chocolate [...]

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In a small shot or diluted in a larger cup, this hot chocolate is perfect for almost any taste. While the small hot chocolate shot is thick and custardy like the Apostrophe hot cocoa, the Carluccio’s hot chocolate comes across with a higher complexity of chocolate flavour but in a tiny shot it is also [...]

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Thick like custard is the first thought you have when drinking an Apostrophe hot chocolate.  The second thought is along the lines of despair that the luscious warm chocolate custard will end when this cup finishes and why does it have to cool so quickly. The lovely custardy goodness that is this hot chocolate is [...]

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Hot chocolate comes in all flavours it seems and made in a variety of ways and Paul A Young has some of the best around. As you can see in the video, the hot chocolate is made fresh in the shop and there are a series of flavours that you can choose from to have [...]

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To kick off my series of hot chocolate reviews, I thought I would post this video about the world’s largest mug of cocoa. Hot chocolate varies in quality and quantity it seems from the various coffee shops.  From thick custard-like shots to powdery flavourless drinks, hot chocolate quality varies wildly from place to place. The [...]

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Brownies come in all shapes and flavours.  Some flavours are deep and complex, others false and dry.  The Choc Star van has a double chocolate brownie they insisted I buy and try once I revealed I was reviewing them. As you can see, this brownie looks normal enough.  It has the requisite crunchy top, slightly [...]

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Never one to turn down an opportunity to eat brownies or cookies, I purchased the Oreo cookie brownie from Outsider tart at the Chocolate Festival.  A large slab of Oreo cookie goodness, I stole home with the prize. This is a hard brownie, offering no soft yielding centre as some do.  Indeed, Oreo cookies are [...]

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A decadent combination of 1.3cm of brownie, 1.5cm of thick caramel and 2mm of chocolate. One thing about millionaire shortbread is that the cookie base means the caramel squishes out in a big gooey mess.  I love them but this messiness means I don’t enjoy them as often as I would like to.  That and [...]

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I have to admit that M&S is not the kind of place that I would expect to get any kind of decent chocolate at.  OK chocolate I’ll give you but to move in to the GOOD or even TOP NOTCH categories, you really need to be doing something outstanding. It was a bit of a [...]

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Sea salted caramels seem to have become a popular confection among chocolate makers and Artisan du Chocolat are no exception.  The ones bought for me arrived in a white box within which was a nice brown plastic tub with a screw top lid. Unscrewing the lid of this delightful container of chocolate was like opening [...]

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