Category: Great Chocolate

Great chocolate – not as good as high quality, but better than most

Thorntons Haiti Milk Chocolate with Mango Save The Children Bar

There has been a movement of late in the chocolate industry to use chocolate as a way to give back to various communities.  Divine, Demarquette and Thorntons are all chocolate producers who are committed to helping give back to communities. This ...

Delight Chocolates in Toronto Chocolate Review

As anyone who reads this blog knows, I’m not the biggest fan of Belgian style chocolates with their high fat whipped sugary centres and moulded shell but I will always try then and give them a fair chance.  This was ...

Chocodores Colombian Drinking Chocolate Cubes Review

If there’s one thing that warms me on a cold day it is a mug of hot chocolate.  I know that everyone appreciates hot chocolate of varying quality and not everyone ventures much beyond powder.  I think everyone should try ...

Villandry Dark Chocolate Ganache Review

Few things are as pleasurable as spending a lunch with a friend and I did just that at Villandry (thought I went to Vapiano first, dyslexic weirdo that I am) not too long ago.  It had been far too long ...

Lucky Bite Sized brownie cakes

I was lucky enough to get some of the brand new giftable Lucky’s mini cakes - also known as Tiny Pieces of Wonderment - at Chocolate unwrapped.  These little cakes were presented in a mirrored box and are just the ...

Demarquette Chuao 64% Single Estate 2008 Vintage Chocolate Review

When Mark of Demarquette Chocolates said he wasn’t thrilled with this Chuao bar, I thought it was just nerves talking. But with there being already 4 other bars on the market I suppose it’s easy to understand. Soma, Amano, and ...

Chococo Christmas Novelty Chocolates Review

Christmas isn’t Christmas without novelty chocolate and I was very lucky to receive some of the novelty Christmas chocolates on offer at Chococo.  These were absolutely delightful and really imaginative and each held a secret. The first I had to try ...

Hotel Chocolat Milk Chocolate Tiddly Reindeer

Milk chocolate shapes are nothing short of tons of fun and with Hotel Chocolat, you always know what to expect.  The milk chocolate is very nice, and Hotel Chocolat had created a number of milk chocolates to gradually introduce your ...

Chococo Chocolate Advent Calendar Review

Chocolate advent calendars are not new but placing them all in a single box with a numbered paper overlay was new to me.  The path of chocolates takes you in a spiral towards the Christmas pudding in the centre.  Since ...

Hotel Chocolat Christmas Dinner Chocolate Shapes Review

Now, before you screw up you face and think *GROSS* these are small milk chocolate shapes of little Christmas dinners and puddings.  You get 5 of each and they are kinda weird if cute. I am not sure how appealing the ...

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