Nothing says Christmas quite like a Terry’s Chocolate Orange stuffed into your stocking. Well, not if you’re my Dad at least. Either me or my sister have bought him one every year since about 1980. It started off as a serious gift, but now it’s more of a joke. My Dad hates Chocolate Oranges.

In my [...]

Here’s another part of my Christmas present from The Chocstress - a shoe box packed full of chocs!

Aero Bubbles are Malteser-sized balls of mint flavour Aero chocolate in a rather striking two-one “chocolate” shell.

Somewhat disappointingly, this large tube only contains 3 small bags of “bubbles”. I say ‘disappointingly’, although I’m not entirely sure I’d want [...]

When I think of the ’70s, three things come to mind; Fondue sets, ABBA and After Eights. Back in the day, these were the height of luxury and sophistication. (Er… After Eight, I mean, not ABBA.)
As a child, I somehow believed the universe would end spectacularly if I ate an After Eight mint before 8pm. [...]

Christmas is traditionally a time of year for giving chocolate. And more importantly, eating it. So when a large shoe box packed full of chocolate arrived from The Chocstress, my first thought was “Best present ever!”… followed swiftly by “Oh God, I’m going to have to review all this!”

Naturally, I started with the biggest box… [...]

Finding this bar was something of a déja vu experience for me, as I had bought a dark chocolate and raspberry bar in Sweden this Spring and had been unable to find it in the UK. That was made by Marabou (manufacturers of Dime - or Daim) and I suspect that Marabou and Côte d’Or [...]