By Chocolate Truffle!, 20 November, 2010, No Comment

“There are four basic food groups: milk chocolate, dark chocolate, white chocolate, and chocolate truffles.”

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Dolche Gusto Chocolate Pods

By Chocolate Truffle!, 10 August, 2010, 1 Comment

I have landed in Blighty and my little Sister Heidi has a Dolce Gusto machine, Before we moved I had my own machine and I used it to death. With the suitcases in the hallway and children entertained we sat down to enjoy the Dolce Gusto chocochino, and it was fan-dabby dosey. For a home chocolate drink its really creamy and not overly coco-ey or powdery like some home hot chocolates, all in all a great way to start our holiday in the UK, cheers little sis.

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Someone really loves chocolate

By Chocolate Truffle!, 21 July, 2010, No Comment

I was reading a BBC report today about a hedge fund manager who has bought up nearly all the physical stocks of cocoa in Europe. The BBC speculate that the cost of chocolate could be set to rise on the run up to christmas my personal thoughts….CHOCOHOLIC, lol.

Read the BBC report

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Cadbury Flake competition

By Chocolate Truffle!, 14 July, 2010, No Comment

Between 11th February and 31st October 2010 you’ll have the chance to win one of one million luxury Benefit lipsticks or lip glosses, every time you buy a special promotional pack of Flake.

Visit http://www.flake.co.uk/index.aspx to enter.

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Get that friday feeling

By Chocolate Truffle!, 13 July, 2010, No Comment

If you are a twitter then you’ll love this. Share your #fridayfeeling for the chance to get your hands on a box of Crunchies! If you not a twitter-err then go have a look … we are on there!

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Eating dark chocolate

By Chocolate Truffle!, 8 July, 2010, No Comment

An even colour through out the chocolate, no air bubbles and not too dark.

A nice deep aroma

A clean snap sound when you break the bar. with no crumbling.

Good chocolate is like a good wine and you should be able to detect other ingredients too, fruit, spices etc.

I’m not too freakish when it comes to the signs of good chocolate, in the end for me, if I enjoyed it then it must be good in my book, lol.

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DIY Truffles Have Never Looked so Good

By Chocolate Truffle!, 8 July, 2010, No Comment

I’m definately going to make these, in fact I think I may have to go out tommorow and buy some supplys. Theye look really good, the only problem is how long it takes to make them, im sooo impatient. I just hope the craft store has the moulds that I want.

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Worlds best chocolate

By Chocolate Truffle!, 2 July, 2010, No Comment

So this is probably the hardest question to ask any chocoholic…hmm.

Well I don’t know about you but personally it all depends on what mood I’m in. Dark chocolate is a favourite of mine, just a little morsel every day keeps the doctor away. I recently got my hands on a Cadburys Gold bar, I had never seen it in England so when I saw it on the shelf in the shop I had to buy it, not bad it works well when making a rich chocolate ganache.

Now then as far as the worlds best chocolate goes Im really at a loss I simply couldn’t choose, however the worlds worst chocolate in my opinion is the Guylian seashells. The chocolates look beautiful but the texture and flavour is like that of the cheap chocolates you buy at the market. This is of course my own opinion, I would much rather chomp on a piece of old leather, and speaking as an avid chocolate eater for me not to even want to eat it…well it goes without saying.

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Chocolate maniac and proud…

By Chocolate Truffle!, 1 July, 2010, 1 Comment

I am without doubt a bit of a chocolate fan, neither of my parents have a particularly sweet tooth and as a child I very rarely ate it at all!

However my older sister was a huge fan of thortons chocolates and I remember one year she bought herself a big box because she knew that her husband wouldn’t…at that point I didn’t really understand why she would go gaga over selection of sweet confection.

What changed, I really couldn’t say but what started with the odd bar of cadbury dairy milk has evolved into a monster of its own. I progressed to Thorntons, Lindt and always the milk chocolate variety, I didn’t really have any interest in the dark stuff, probably because of mums revoltion to a box of black magic once, any way I digress…I can hand on heart say that now I would much rather have a square of rich dark chocolate than a snickers bar(which was a favourite of mine). I love the stuff, generally in any form and I can’t ever see that changing.