The Chocoholic's Review

Hotel Chocolat Inventing Room - December 2020 Introduction Earlier this month, I received my December Inventing Room box. This month, I received the usual box of filled chocolates, some blackforest hot chocolate, new recipes of milk and caramel chocolate to try, coconut and lime ganache filled chocolates and a salted pistachio buche. I couldn't wait to dig in to my box of treats and, having now polished off the lot, I will let you know what I think. Do these chocolates deserve to find a place on the shelves? New Recipe Milk and Caramel Chocolate Batons This month, Hotel Chocolat revealed that they have been working on improving the recipes for their standard "house blend" Milk and Caramel chocolates, which are a staple amongst their product range. They said that they "never stop thinking about how to make everything taste better" and wanted to make their chocolate "more mellow with even more cocoa". Among the changes are bumping up the cocoa content fr...

Choc on Choc's White Chocolate Fancies Introduction I've always been intrigued by Choc on Choc's chocolates. They specialise in making chocolate sculptures, made to look like things that definitely aren't chocolate - cheeseboards, full English breakfasts, fruit baskets etc. They've even started making chocolate toilet rolls, likely a nod to 2020's pandemic supermarket toilet roll raids! I've often seen Choc on Choc in my local Waitrose during the run up to Christmas, but have never taken the plunge and bought anything. Until now! Vodafone regularly offers freebies through its Very Me rewards app. If its something you have to order online, then normally you have to pay postage, but it does mean you get the product itself completely free. The app recently hit their two year anniversary, so for this they gave away something extra special - a box of white chocolate fancies from Choc on Choc. Clearly their website couldn't cope with all of the people eager to...