Share 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, [...]

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Share 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 [...]

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Share 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 [...]

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Share 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 [...]

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Share 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 [...]

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Share This bar is made with a very creamy Madagascar 32% cocoa filled with dried strawberries.   What a different idea as most strawberry chocolate is made with white chocolate. This sweet chocolate has a slightly different flavour than Thorntons other milk chocolate.  It is smooth and creamy with a stronger flavour of cream.  The chocolate [...]

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Share This milk chocolate bar has 38% Venezuelan chocolate with cocoa butter infused with Tonka beans. This was a bit weird for me as I used to use tonka beans in incense making. The scent of the tonka bean hit me immediately upon opening the chocolate bar with its earthy perfume.  The scent of the [...]

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Share This 38% Venezuelan cocoa blended into a chocolate bar from a chocolate producer more often associated with low quality chocolate is a shock – a pleasant one! The chocolate is brilliantly balanced with a slight creaminess coming out over the chocolate itself.  The chocolate has been made silky smooth with none of the graininess [...]

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Share I must admit that pistachio in chocolate was never a flavour I considered.  In fact, I avoided baklava for years until a friend forced me to try some when I learned I loved it A 32% Madagascar cocoa chocolate covers pistachio nuts.  The chocolate itself is silky smooth but slightly over sugared making it [...]

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Thorntons bronze award-winning chocolate with salted macadamia nuts doesn’t seem like it should work…

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