I’ve mentioned before (at least twice) that I love freeze dried strawberries, so these were a must have buy for me. There’s something about that weird cardboardy texture that I just can’t get enough of.

And these certainly look tempting. Large, whole straweberries, covered in a creamy looking white chocolate.

Strangely, they have a slightly sticky / [...]

I don’t much like Hershey’s. I’ll try and be fair about them, but I’ll make this no secret. Yet their new products seem like spiders’ webs for me: they look decent enough, then turn out to be nothing special. Still, I guess I should respect the Cacao Reserve line for trying to keep up with [...]

Not long ago I was pleasantly surprised to be greeted at the door by a courier carrying a box from Italy. Yes, finally Simon from Stainer came good! Among the numerous beautifully packaged bars (and there are plenty) I found this quartet of 50g ‘alcoholic’ bars. Three of the four are 45% ‘milk’ chocolate, and [...]

Regular readers of Chocablog will already know that I harbor quite the cocoa-crush on South Australian Lindt Guru, Matt Thorpe. He’s tall, cute and smart but most importantly he comes bearing Lindt products for my delight, delectation and in order to protect himself from being raped and/or pillaged.

This time, he held up a gold [...]

Congratulations to Rachel Wilson of East Yorkshire who is our competion winner! Your 1Kg of chocolate is on its way to you now.

We had hundreds of entries for the competition, so a big thanks to everyone who entered - and if you didn’t win this time, don’t worry, we’ll be running more competitions very [...]