When I was younger (and ate a lot more milk chocolate) I remember taking a trip to Scandanavia and seeing Dime (as we were still calling them) Balls on sale. I used to enjoy the occasional Dime Bar (whenever I was in the mood for picking lumps of toffee out of my back teeth) and [...]

This is another first for yours truly - a chocolate made with sheep’s milk and containing 10% hemp seed.

ChocoLina is an Austrian company offering chocolates made from sheep and goat milk, the goat’s milk products seemingly branded ChocoLisa.

The bar contains only 100% sheep’s milk , raw cane sugar, cocoa beans (36%) and Bourbon vanilla. It [...]

Daim is a little bar (28g) with a long history. It was developed in the 1950s by Marabou who were acquired by Kraft in 1993. The bar is now Kraft branded, although it is still made in Sweden.

Until a couple of years ago, it was known as ‘Dime’ here in the UK. I’m not entirely [...]

This is an old family secret - the perfect fudge icing for both filling and topping a good chocolate cake. Enjoy!

You will need

5 oz of butter
5 oz of icing sugar, sifted
4 tablespoons of cocoa powder
3 tablespoons of milk

(If you’re a proper choccy monster use double - I tend to make half as much again.)

Method

Slowly and [...]

Here we go with another choccy challenge. This time the contenders are both Swedish and both milk chocolate. The only difference is their pedigree and price.

In the blue corner, the established contender - Marabou Milk Chocolate.
Weighing in at 250g and costing £2.10

I remember my first Marabou purchase being one of those tubes of milk chocolate [...]