National Chocolate Week runs from the 14th-20th October 2013. For many of us chocolate is a big part of our daily life, but when a week is dedicated to chocolate who are we to argue?! So whether you’re a fan of dark, milk, white or plain chocolate, So Darling! have found the most delicious chocolates available, from the traditional to some unique flavour combinations!
East India Company
The East India Company is launching a delicious and exciting new range of chocolates. From spice infused ganaches and fruit infused caramels to a delectable milk and dark truffle selection, the range takes inspiration from its early voyages, to create a truly unique and decadent chocolate experience.
In keeping with the Company’s pioneering spirit and palette of remarkable connections, these exquisite chocolates have been developed to bring together a wide range of flavours from different parts of the world, from Japan’s Yuzu Citrus to the Alphonso Mango from India. Made in conjunction with world-class chocolatier, Marc DeMarquette, they combine fine dark and milk chocolate with rich flavour coming from real fruits and spices.
Spice Infused
10 chocolates: £15
20 chocolates: £28
Each chocolate is combined with a fragrant spice including: roasted coriander, Thai green chilli, fiery ginger, warming cinnamon, rich cardamom and chai spice (made using The Company’s signature Governor Aungier’s Bombay Chai tea blend). The flavours are blended with rich ganache, sweet caramel or soft praline and enveloped in crisp dark chocolate for a truly delightful experience.
The six flavours: Thai Green Chili, Ginger, Cinnamon, Rose & Cardamom, Poppy & Almond, and Roasted Coriander.
Fruit Infused
Small £15,
Large £28
The new range of chocolate caramels is infused with real exotic fruits. With fruit infusions ranging from tangy bursts of passion fruit, the zesty taste of yuzu, the sweet nectar of Alphonso mango, and the bold Seville oranges, you can travel the world with every bite.
Unlike most caramels, this range contains no added flavourings and instead uses the pure fruits and raw ingredients for the ultimate in provenance. Wherever possible, the fruit is bought directly from the growers themselves to ensure the best quality, freshness and ripeness.
Guylian Belgian Chocolate Sea Shells
£4.00
This well loved classic is guaranteed to put a smile on any chocolate lover’s face. Made from the finest West African cocoa beans and filled with melt-in-your-mouth roasted hazelnut praline, each heavenly Guylian Sea Shell is lovingly crafted from a blend of delicious white, milk and dark Belgian chocolate.
Guylian Belgian Chocolate Sea Horses
£10.00
A fresh take on our signature Sea Shells, these delectable praline filled Sea Horse shaped chocolates are available in small 46g boxes, perfect for self-gifting, £1.00, and generous 374g boxes for sharing with friends and family.
Amelia Rope
Chocolate bars (100g) £5.60
Chocolate Cubes £16.00 for 12 and £29.00 for 24
Amelia Rope recently launched her White Chocolate collection, adding to her range of premium chocolate bars and bespoke miniature bars, boxed chocolate cubes, bundles, truffles and stunning chocolate dipped flora. Amelia Rope’s delicious chocolates signify quality, purity, taste and indulgence, with the unique, award-winning flavours and particular chocolate-making techniques reflecting Amelia’s own unusual roots and experience. All Amelia Rope chocolates are made in the UK, using single origin chocolate from ethical and sustainable sources. All are gluten free, alcohol free and suitable for vegetarians, with the Dark Editions also dairy free and suitable for vegans.
The range presents exquisite boxes of 12 or 24 chocolate cubes in a mosaic of vibrantly coloured foil wrappers, with flavours from the Dark, Pale or Pale Sea Salt Collections. Bespoke chocolates: Most of the flavours are available also in bespoke miniature chocolate bars, and as with the larger bars, these can be presented individually or in beautifully ribboned duos, trios or larger bundles. The bespoke service also offers different recipe options, a choice of colour foil wrapper and personalised ribbons.
Organic Seed and Bean
£2.29 per bar
Organic and Bean celebrate National Chocolate Week with three new flavours,
Milk Chocolate with Cornish Sea Salt and West Indies Lime - Tangy, zesty and salty in a moreishly rich milk chocolate with connotations of fruit and exotic drinks – immerse yourself!
White Chocolate Raspberry and Vanilla - Like a summer sundae, real tangy raspberries poured into a creamy white chocolate with a hint of vanilla.
Dark Chocolate with Sicilian Hazelnut – Sumptuous dark chocolate with a smooth nutty flavour – a complete delight!
Milk Chocolate Mendiants
£19.99
a new, unique gift idea from Sent With A Loving Kiss www.sentwithalovingkiss.co.uk is set to be popular. Beautifully styed and decorated chocolate, hand-crafted in Hampshire by a team of award-winning chocolatiers, is presented in a decorative keepsake tin bearing a personal message from the sender to the recipient, and can be delivered anywhere in the UK, starting from under £20 plus postage and packing.
There’s chocolate to please all tastes – dark, milk, white and mixed and themes to suit all occasions from birthdays to thank-you presents, well-done to get-well gifts, engagements to anniversary wishes, new job to retirement mementos. There’s gifts for friends, relatives, colleagues as well as lovers, garden enthusiasts, shoppers and foodies. It’s an easy way to send a personalised gift that offers a sweet treat and a tin to keep.
Ethically sourced couverture from Belgium is melted, moulded and embellished by hand, in the Hampshire workshop, with peel, fruit, nuts, contrasting chocolate and hand-drawn script and patterns to be tip top gift-ready. The presentation tins come in a variety of patterns, shapes and sizes, and Sent With A Loving Kiss’s helpful team is there to help you with your personalised message should you wish.
Milk chocolate fans will simply adore this collection of thick, chunky mendiants finished off with delicious toppings. The tanginess of the fruit and berries and the satisfying crunch of the nuts create a taste sensation. The perfect gift for those with a discerning sweet tooth.
Includes:
4 x Milk Chocolate cranberry & almond discs
4 x Milk Chocolate orange discs
4 x Milk Chocolate hazelnut discs 150g
Glittering Signature Selection
£6.99
Mini Guinness Pints
£3.99
Lir Award Winning Chocolatiers have some amazingly gorgeous chocolates; from their range, Glittering Signature Selection and Dark and White chocolate mini Guinness pints!
Lir Award Winning Chocolatiers is a chocolate company based in Eire making seriously special and delicious chocolates that have over the last few years won 13 gold awards in the Great Taste Awards (the ‘Oscars’ of the food world) from the Guild of Fine Food, as well as, in 2011, Gold for Best Filled Chocolate from the Academy of Chocolate.
With a passion for creating the finest chocolates using traditional confectionery-making methods, Lir’s skill is in the expertise of their chocolate blending. In addition, only the finest ingredients from near and far are used in the imaginative flavour combinations they create – from exotic Turkish hazelnuts, Spanish almonds, Italian Marsala wine and Sicilian lemons to locally sourced Irish cream and butter. LIR are obsessive about detail and care about every single chocolate they make. Each chocolate is creatively decorated ensuring a beautiful presentation.
Galaxy Instant Hot Chocolate
£2.00
Galaxy hot chocolate is getting a fresh new look and an even more chocolatey taste. More cocoa has been added to the smooth and creamy Galaxy Instant hot chocolate and Galaxy Frothy hot chocolate, to create a delicious chocolate treat, or as we like to call it happiness in a mug!
Chocolate & Kentish Cobnut Fudge
£5.25, 200g or x 2 200g bags for £10
Satisfy your sweet tooth with this deliciously decadent, gorgeous handmade Chocolate & Kentish Cobnut Fudge, handmade by artisans in Kent and brought to you by Potash Farm, purveyors of a wide range of fine foods made with cobnuts, from the tiny hamlet of St Marys Platt, an area of outstanding natural beauty (AONB), where the cobnuts, native to this area in the UK are grown. High quality Belgian chocolate is combined with toasted cobnuts to produce a buttery, melt in the mouth fudge - a deliciously more-ish treat, perfect on picnics, as a ‘hostess gift’, or simply divine to serve up with coffee after dinner.