Archive for October, 2006

Cockroach Cake

Here’s another freakish Hallowe’en project for the brave chocaholic.

As far as we can tell, this cockroach cake is not made from real cockroaches, but there’s no recipe given, so we can’t be sure.

If this is a bit much, we suggest you try our very own Dalek Cake instead. Not only is it less scary, but [...]

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Posted by Dom on 24 Oct 2006 at 11:10 AM in Misc | Comments (5)

Ritter Sport Chocolate Crème

If you’re a regular Chocablog reader, you may know I’m a big fan of Ritter Sport. The Cappuccino, Peppermint and Dark varieties were all delicious.

So my reaction on finding this new addition to the range was mixture of excitement and trepidation. It sounds delicious.. but could it possibly live up to the standards set by [...]

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Posted by Dom on 19 Oct 2006 at 10:10 PM in Reviews | Comments (1)

White Chocolate Skulls

If you’re looking for something fun to make for Hallowe’en, why not try these rather cool white chocolate sugar skulls. I don’t think I’ve ever seen such cute and tasty looking human remains.

And if you have your own ideas for chocolatey Hallowe’en snacks, let us know!

One thing’s for certain though - no pesky trick-or-treater’s [...]

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Posted by Dom on 18 Oct 2006 at 11:10 PM in Misc | Comments (0)

Cadbury Snowflake

Cadbury can’t seem to make up their mind what to call this one. The wrapper calls it ‘Flake Snow’, yet their web site calls it ‘Snowflake’. I’ve gone with Snowflake simply because it sounds better.

Whatever you call it, this bar is quite simple. A white chocolate Flake dipped in milk chocolate.

For me, the most interesting [...]

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Posted by Dom on 16 Oct 2006 at 06:10 PM in Reviews | Comments (5)

Cadbury Flake Praline

Flake Praline is one of four new(ish) variations on Cadbury Flake - the others being Flake Dark, Flake Dipped and Snowflake.

The wrapper describes this as “Crumbly milk chocolate Flake nestled in a rich hazelnut praline”. I beg to differ.

I would describe it as “Cadbury Flake half dragged through a shallow bath of chocolate that happened [...]

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Posted by Dom on 13 Oct 2006 at 03:10 PM in Reviews | Comments (4)