Chocolate is a complicated and confusing thing.

Take M&M’s for instance. Quintessentially American. In fact, they were only introduced into the UK in the 1990s. Yet they’re a thoroughly British invention.

During the Spanish Civil War, Forrest Mars saw soldiers eating Smarties, a colourful, flat, spheroid chocolate with a sugar coating to stop it melting in in [...]

This recent UK heatwave is not only melting my chocolate but it’s forcing me to look at alternative ways to get my chocafix. Don’t get me wrong, even on the hottest days, when my choc du jour has melted beyond anything vaguely resembling a bar, I still can never be persuaded from my chocaholic ways.
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These cookies are wonderfully simple to make. As I know people seem unduly worried about making meringue, I made my 12-year-old son make these to show how easy it is. You can add a pinch of cream of tartar if you are nervous, I noticed Delia recommends it. These were done without though.

Ingredients

2 egg whites [...]

I was so pleased when Dom drew the short straw and got to review the KitKat Chunky Peanut Butter. Like Dom, I’ve never been a lover of KitKats, despite the fact I am the daughter of the original KitKat Kid. OK, maybe not the original, but my Mum, born the same month and year as [...]

‘A bit of a mouthful’. That’s the best way to describe this. Both in terms of the name and the contents of the bar.

KitKat may be one of the best selling chocolate bars in the world, but I’m quite sure that this particular bar isn’t contributing a great deal to the sales figures.

Why? Because [...]