Congratulations to Sarah Parker winner of our Chocolate Trading Company Christmas Hamper! Your prize will be with you in time for Christmas!

Thanks to everyone who entered. For those that didn’t win, there’s still time to use our exclusive discount code claim a whopping 11% off your Christmas Shopping The Chocolate Trading Company. Just click here and use the discount code CHOCA11 at checkout!

Hurry though as the offer ends December 16th!

Update: This competition is now closed:

For those that didn’t win, there’s still time to use our exclusive discount code claim a whopping 11% off your Christmas Shopping The Chocolate Trading Company. Just click here and use the discount code CHOCA11 at checkout!

It’s competition time again. This time, we’ve got a couple of bars of limited edition Green & Black’s Raisin & Hazelnut chocolate.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and Breakthrough Breast Cancer has teamed up with Green & Black’s to raise vital funds for the charity. Each of these limited edition bars carries a donation to Breakthrough, but we’ve managed to get our hands on a couple so you can share the message (and the chocolate) personally.

This is a Twitter based competition, but if you’re not on Twitter already, it only takes a minute to sign up.

To enter, just follow Chocablog (so we can let you know if you win!) and Breakthrough Breast Cancer, then retweet a link to this page.

You can click this link to tweet now if you’re logged in to Twitter.

This competition is open to UK residents only. One entry per person.

The competition will close at 12 noon GMT on Friday 14th October 2011, and a winner will be picked at random and notified by direct message on Twitter.

You can find out more about Breakthrough Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer Awereness month on the Breakthrough site at www.breakthrough.org.uk

It’s eight months since Jennifer and I launched World Chocolate Guide, our attempt to map and rate all the world’s chocolate shops & destinations, and today we added our 400th shop to the site!

The site lets you search for chocolate shops by location and keyword, filter your search results to show only those establishments that serve hot chocolate & cakes, and – most importantly – rate and review all your favourite chocolate places.

We also have an active chocolate blog (mainly updated by Jennifer), and those of you with iPhones or Android can even get an augmented reality guide on your phone. Just download the free Layar app and search for the ‘chocolate guide’ layer.

So now we need your help.

The most important thing you can do to help improve the guide is to leave comments and ratings on your favourite (and least favourite!) establishments. It only takes a second to add your opinion and help improve the listings. These ratings also help generate our top rated chocolate shop list.

The other thing you can do to help is to submit any shops missing from the guide, particularly if you’re the owner. You can add a shop with this simple form, which you can also use to submit corrections and photos for existing listings.

We’d love to build World Chocolate Guide into a comprehensive guide to the world’s best chocolate shops and patisseries. Help us promote the best chocolate in the world by getting involved!

Regular readers will know how much we love Gü Puds – and not just because their head chef Fred Ponnavoy cooked us dinner. We like their sense of fun indulgence as much as we like their desserts. So we’ve teamed up with them to bring you a great competition, just in time for summer.

You could win one of these great insulated Gü cool bags, along with a £15 voucher for Gü Puds to fill it with. Perfect for an indulgent summer chocolate picnic!

This competition is for our Twitter followers, but if you’re not on Twitter already, it only takes a minute to sign up.

To enter, just follow Chocablog and Gü Puds (so we can let you know if you win!), then retweet a link to this page.

Update: This competition is now closed.

To celebrate reaching 5000 fans on our Facebook page, I’m giving away a stash of my own chocolate worth over £50 to a random fan!

To be in with a chance of winning it, all you need to do is head on over to Facebook and click ‘Like’ on any of our posts between now and Saturday 7th May. The winner will be picked at random and will receive the chocolate pictured above.

This competition is open to anyone worldwide, as long as you have a postal service (or can get to North London to collect it!) Only one entry per person will be counted, but you can ‘like’ as many things as you want, I’ll sort out all the duplicates.

Good luck!

As you may know, I’ve been involved in the organisation of this year’s Academy of Chocolate Awards. I’m happy to say that the results of this year’s awards are now out, and you can view the complete list here.

The stand-out result for me is the one right at the top. Duffy Sheardown’s Honduras Indio Rojo 72% bar, which jointly won the coveted ‘Golden Bean’ award for best bean-to-bar dark chocolate. The fact that the other joint winner of the award was an established player like Amedei makes it even more interesting to me.

You might be wondering why there are joint winners. The awards were given purely on the scores they achieved on the judging days last month, and the two bars in question were right at the top of the pile with almost identical scores. The only fair thing to do in this case was to give the award to both.

Lots of other exciting and interesting results cropped up, and I think there’s a great mix of old favourites like Amedei, William Curley, Rococo and Thorntons with newcomers like Bojesen, Amelia Rope, Go*Do and Matcha.

Congratulations to all the winners, and thanks to all the judges who gave their time and sanity to help us!

Update: This competition is now closed.

The fine people at Toblerone recently got in touch to tell us all about their new website, My Toblerone.

Now we don’t normally blog about websites, but when Toblerone set up their new Twitter account recently, we were the first people they followed, so we figured it was only fair. And when they promised to give us Toblerone goody bags to pass on to our lovely readers, we couldn’t refuse. Bribery is always helpful in situations like that.

The new website has recipes, fun challenges (with prizes) and lots of ways to get involved, so check it out.

How To Win

For your chance to win one of five Toblerone goody bags, just answer this simple question.

In which country was Toblerone invented? Was it?

Please make sure you read all the rules before entering your answer in the form below.

Update: This competition is now closed.

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It’s competition time again. This time, we’ve teamed up with our friends at Chocolate & Love, the luxury online chocolate boutique to bring you a selection of fine chocolate bars from around the world worth over £30.

This competition is for our Twitter followers, but if you’re not on Twitter already, it only takes a minute to sign up.

Update: This competition is now closed

Update: This competition is now closed

Win a Lucky’s Honey Time Luxury Chocolate Cake Gift Box worth over £30!

If you hadn’t noticed, Valentines Day is approaching fast, and this year we’ve managed to get our hands on something extra special for one of our lucky readers.

We’ve been down the rabbit hole and stolen The Queen of Hearts favourite cakes! This stunning fur-lined Lucky’s Honey Time Luxury Gift Box of chocolate enrobed cakes could be yours to share with your Valentine, but you’ll have to be quick because we swear the evil Queen followed us home!

We need to get rid of the evidence before she sets a Jabberwock on us or something equally horrendous, so we’re giving them away to one of our Twitter followers!

If you’re not on Twitter already, it only takes a minute to sign up.

Update: This competition is now closed

Small Print

This competition is open to UK residents only. Only one entry per person will be counted. Chocablog staff, mad hatters, white rabbits, march hares and cheshire cats are not eligible to enter. You shouldn’t give rabbits and cats chocolate anyway. It’s an awful waste.