I must confess that I was a little mystified by this bar. When I looked at the ingredients, I saw that this milk chocolate was 35% cocoa - top of the range stuff indeed. The problem is the extra ingredients. This bar has been sprinkled with an assortment of mallow pieces and pale looking mini [...]

This is the sister bar to the Raw Dark Chocolate I recently reviewed.

A comparison to Conscious Chocolate’s bars is not unfounded. In a similar vein, Pure Flavour have obviously found their ideal formula on which to base their range, and then added other ingredients to create a range of tastes and textures.

This particular bar is [...]

I was looking forward to trying this single estate, Equitrade chocolate bar. It’s made by a family on Madagascar from the three ‘classic’ varieties of bean - Criollo, Trinitario and Forastero - and is harvested, fermented and made into chocolate exclusively on the island of Madagascar. It’s sold as a ‘Grand Cru’ and each [...]

If you’re a regular Chocablog reader, you’ll know that I’ve never given Thorntons products rave reviews. With the recent influx of high end chocolatiers and the popularity of proper chocolate, Thorntons often seem to be left behind, stuck in the mid ’70s.

So when I picked this box off the shelf of the Brent Cross branch [...]

Mostly, the ‘tone’ of chocolates sampled here at Chocablog reside proudly at the upper end of the quality/quirky ingredients/boutique brand spectrum, but even we critics like to downscale when we’re off duty.

As such, I thought it was high time the faithful Aussie classic, the Wagon Wheel, got its turn in the spotlight. During my [...]