Salt Archives

A new range of bars from Italy.

Milk chocolate filled with banana pecan caramel

A selection from The London Chocolate Company.

Milk chocolate with toasted coconut & caramel.

Milk chocolate that tastes as good as it looks.

Orchard fruit flavour caramel chocolates.

Bean to bar chocolate, from Woodridge, VA.

Divine airtrade milk chocolate with toffee & sea salt.

Flavoured disks from Canada's Soma Chocolate Maker.

Bean-to-bar chocolate from North Carolina

Peruvian dark chocolate with salt and pepper.

Honeycomb balls with milk chocolate and salted caramel.

Organic, Fairtrade chocolate with sunflower seeds & sea salt.

Madagascan chocolate with sea salt & nibs.

A collection of sea-salt bars from Le Belge Chocolatier.

A Finnish dark chocolate with salt.

71% Grenada chocolate with Himalayan salt.

Lindt chocolate with pieces of hard caramel and sea salt.

Raw chocolate truffles from Oregon.

A dark chocolate bar with real truffle.

A raw, organic take on the peanut butter cup.

A wonderful raw chocolate from Ecaudor.

Trader Joe's take on the classic salted caramel.

One of our favourite milk chocolates, from one of the world's best chocolate makers.

An award winning single plantation milk chocolate with a hint of fleur de sel.

Organic, stone ground chocolate with added salt and peper!

A non-descript dark chocolate with pieces of hard carmel and sea salt.

A selection of dark chocolate bars flavoured with a myriad of herbs and spices.

Another offering from San Francisco's Poco Dolce.

It’s Fairtrade Fortnight and the nice people at the Fairtrade Foundation were good enough to send some samples of Fairtrade chocolate that we hadn’t seen before.

So Christmas is over, VAT has gone up and the weather is still dreadful. What better time to pop into an Aldi in search of potentially tasty bargains?

Although I have said that Vice Chocolates had quite an eye-catching booth at the San Francisco Chocolate Salon, I find myself slightly disappointed to be at home with only a plain dark chocolate and sea salt bar rather than a …

When ‘The Chocolate Society‘ got in touch to offer me a few items for review, he mentioned Vestri White chocolate. “How odd.” I thought, having only quite recently had my first encounter with Vestri and rather enjoyed it. As you …

Well, this is an interesting idea and as far as I know, something really quite unique. Perfume maker Ayala Moriel has collaborated with Vancouver chocolatier Rachel Sawatzky (also known as the CocoaNymph) to come up with a trio of chocolate …

Writing for Chocablog has changed me. I used to be able to enjoy going to places and not spend my time digging around in shops obsessively looking for unusual kinds of chocolate, but not any more. Now I spend every …

Mr Simms Olde Sweet Shoppes seem to be popping up everywhere at the moment. Simon recently found one in … and one has recently opened up near me in Brent Cross. While it’s difficult to find out many solid details …

Part of the goody bag I recently received included a few Delicaseys chocolates from Sydney. I was hugely impressed with the Orange Bliss that I tried first. Next on the list is Fleur De Sel – or as the package …

Holly Caulfied – aka Chocoholly – is one of my favourite British chocolatiers. Not only is she an all-round lovely person to know, but her artistic talents make her chocolates some of the most creative and attractive chocolates around. The …

These mini bars are made in Brighton by The Chocolate Heart and one thing that sets them aside from many other chocolate makers is that this chocolate is dairy free, something I happen to know to be very important to …

After enjoying the eight little chocolates that Vancouver’s CocoaNymph sent, I was looking forward to trying one of their bars. In fact, I was actually looking forward to it even more than the chocolates which were gone far too quickly …

What with Japan week and chocolate covered creepy crawlies, it’s been a while since I sat down with something truly sophisticated and exciting. Thanks to a recent rendezvous with Dom at the South Bank Chocolate Festival I find myself in …

In chocolate-tasting circles, the name ‘Mast Brothers‘ is spoken with quiet reverence. Two brothers from Brooklyn who have somehow managed to make – I’m told by reliable sources – some of the best chocolate in the world. I had to …

When people find out I review chocolate they inevitably tell me how lucky I am, which is true. Occasionally something comes along that makes me realise just how lucky I am, and this is one of those occasions. A couple …

Our sophisticated traveller and chocablogger Simon can take a break from his weirdo cedar sap and absinthe chocolates and fancy-shmancy trips to Qatar and Milan and instead stay home and scoff some Creme Eggs because I have finally found something …

This bar is the usual 47% dark blend that Lindt use for the range, but it also contains tiny crystals of sea salt. 3% to be precise. Now you may not consider 3% to be a great deal of salt, …