My local chocolate contact, Monique Bowley sent me a recent press release from Bracegirdles which proudly informed us that they had taken out three gold medal for chocolate at the Royal Adelaide Show this year.

Normally South Australian monolith Haigh’s or Swiss Glory get, well, all the glory in our local chocolate world, so for [...]

I always get excited when small chocolatiers contact us to tell us about what they’re doing. Last week, Kathleen Crymble from Crymble’s Confectionery did just that. She’d seen the discussion about the late, great Fry’s Five Centres on our Fry’s Chocolate Cream review and wanted to talk about her own fruity fondant creams. I suggested [...]

This is another one of Stainer’s chocolate bars blended with herbs and spices (part of the same family as the White Chocolate with Madras Spice), and the ’subtitle’ says it’s a speciality of Northern Europe. As you can see, it also comes in a beautifully illustrated box, just like it’s counterpart.

As I mentioned in my [...]

There I was, feet firmly planted in the Dark Side, feeling happy with my choice, secure with my tastes, minding my own business. Then all of a sudden my beady eyes fixated on the most sign most sought after and revered by chocaholics the world over. Those three magic words: Lindt on Sale.

Whilst [...]

When I first saw this line of chocolate, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Was it just some average chocolate, parading under the Starbucks banner, for people to supplement their breakfast coffee with? I’m not a coffee drinker, so I couldn’t try and imagine how the quality of Starbucks’ coffee would transfer to coffee. [...]