I’ve kept meaning to write about these great designs from Prestat. Really attractive looking, and great sounding flavours too. This bar is almond and sea salt milk chocolate, which even though milk chocolate would still tick the right boxes for me. This box is perfect for the truffle lovers out there. Thirty [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Chocolate'
Tasty chocolate Jubilee treats from Prestat
May 10th, 2012 · No Comments · British favourites, Chocolate
My new favourite brownie?
April 9th, 2012 · 2 Comments · Baking, Chocolate, Foodie gifts
I make brownies quite a lot; they are often requested by my team when I say I’m going to bake, especially the peanut butter ones. But this week I’ve been making some for an 18th birthday that needed to be very chocolatey, no nuts and something a bit special. Which is how I came to [...]
Tags:Brownies·home baking
Chocolates for Valentine’s Day – true love shows true taste
February 7th, 2012 · No Comments · Chocolate, Foodie gifts
Can guarantee there will be some rubbish chocolate offerings around for Valentine’s Day, and I don’t just mean last minute quarter pound boxes picked up from the garage. In my view, I think all of these would pass muster and get you definite brownie points on the day: * I’ve written about Amelia [...]
Christmas without chocolate?
December 4th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Chocolate, Christmas foodie gifts, Foodie gifts
I don’t think so! Certainly not in our household. Or Boat Boy’s house, where it’s still obligatory in his book to eat the festive Toblerone before breakfast. Of course you can do a last minute sweep of the supermarket, but if you’re organised you’ve still got time to get some more interesting choices in. Here’s [...]
Christmas at Carluccio’s
November 6th, 2011 · 1 Comment · British favourites, Chocolate, Christmas foodie gifts, Foodie gifts, Foodie things to do, Hampers, Italian food, Kitchenwares, Places to shop online, Savoury gifts, Sweet treats
Of course there are other places to buy great Italian food online, though less on the average high street. And I have to give Carluccio’s credit, their gifts always look good every Christmas, and always well received. And if I had to rush in somewhere on Christmas Eve for very last minute gift, this would [...]
Tags:Carluccio's·Chocolate Clementines·kitsch teatowels·panettone·tea towels
What can Amazon deliver for foodies this Christmas?
November 2nd, 2011 · No Comments · Baking, British favourites, Chocolate, Christmas foodie gifts, Foodie gifts, Places to shop online, Sweet treats
I’ve written before about trying to find gifts for food lovers beyond books at Amazon, given their ever expanding number of categories. Well, yesterday their Christmas shop opened, and I was interested to see a whole section devoted to gifts for foodies. Would you? Well, some are not bad at all, although obviously some are [...]
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Firing up for Christmas at Firebox
October 26th, 2011 · No Comments · Baking, BBQs, Beer & Lager, Champagne, Chocolate, Christmas foodie gifts, Foodie gadgets, Foodie gifts, Just for fun, Kitchenwares, Places to shop online
Firebox is one of those great internet businesses that has lasted the course, and just keeps getting better. I’ve written before about some great choices from them, and here’s my choice of some of them for this Christmas: Chocolate pizzas have been around for a couple of years, so this is a nice [...]
Tags:cake stands·chocolate pizza·Darth Vader·Firebox·New Zealand chocolate·Sagaform
A week officially dedicated to chocolate? All good news!
October 11th, 2011 · No Comments · British favourites, Chocolate, Christmas foodie gifts, Foodie gifts, Foodie things to do, Local food, Places to shop online, Sweet treats
I love my chocolate, and I love the complete boom in fantastic chocolate coming out of the UK, at every stage of production. Perfect to make a real song and dance about, which Chocolate Week is definitely doing. Chocolate Unwrapped this weekend sounds like the most amazing two day event, but even if you’re nowhere [...]
Tags:Chocolate Alchemy·Chocolate Unwrapped·Chocolate Week·I Should Cocoa·The Chocolate Kitchen
What does the nation’s favourite department store have in store for us?
September 29th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Alcohol free drinks, British favourites, Chocolate, Christmas foodie gifts, Foodie gifts, Places to shop online, Sweet treats
I was on a very rare weekend foray into town last weekend, and made a quick detour through John Lewis to see whether they had got festive yet, as their foodie gifts are often interesting. Whilst not having looked at the offer online in any great detail, these are the things that caught my eye [...]
Tags:Christmas·Christmas foodie gifts·gingerbread houses·tea
Baking the easy way but with taste
September 13th, 2011 · No Comments · Baking, Chocolate, Christmas foodie gifts, Cooking with Kids, Foodie gifts, Foodie things to do, Sweet treats
We were joking about Shake a Cakes the other day, which would most definitely not be something I would suggest sending anyone as a gift, not even as a joke. But very interested to see that Montezuma’s are now doing Baking Kits, which look like they could turn out very tasty results. Building on [...]
