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Cocopia 34% Milk Chocolate Mini-Slab
4 July 2008Another offering from Tesco's pet Swiss chocolatier, and this time it's a milk chocolate. This one is made using Ghanaian Forastero Beans, and they give it a full-bodied, very smooth cocoa flavour. The bitterness level of the beans is relatively low, so they're much more soothing and gentle on the palate and consequently what you get
Video Tutorial: How To Take Great Portraits
3 July 2008Here’s another in our (somewhat ir)regular series of video tutorials. This time, it’s all about portrait photography. How To Take Portrait Photos...
Gordon Ramsay Just Desserts
3 July 2008Holy f***! Everyone's favourite sweary chef has a range of f***ing chocolates! But are they any f***ing good, or is Gordon Ramsay just cashing in on his f***ing name again? Let's find out! And let's stop the f***ing swearing too. That could get quite irritating... The box contains 16 milk, white and dark chocolates and my first
Michel Cluizel Plantation “Los Ancones”
2 July 2008This is the first of the three bars from Kakawa Chocolate House. I think it was the coloring that drew my eye. A normal, sophisticated black, but with a lime green border and light orange wording. This is a single origina bar from a family-owned, hundred year old plantation in Santo Domingo. It's divided into eighteen
Venchi Absinthum
1 July 2008This bar has been asking to be reviewed ever since I bought it home. Why do I say that? Well, mainly because it has such a powerful smell that I have been made aware of it every time I open the Chocovault. Regular Chocablog fans will probably know me as 'the bloke who travels a lot and
Australian Mars Bars
30 June 2008It’s been a long time since I’ve eaten the classic Mars Bar and had noticed the new variety, Mars Rocks, appearing more frequently at the supermarket and petrol station as well. Because the number three is my personal lucky number, I thought I’d give the ‘lite’ Mars bar version a try at the same
Trapa Lemon Fantasy
27 June 2008Whilst browsing the shelves of the Corte Inglés (a well known chain of Spanish supermarkets) I came across a couple of bars made by Trapa. There are a total of five bars in their Swiss range, and this one contains black pepper and lemon granules (made from lemon juice, sugar and water) in a 55% cocoa
Chocablog on the Radio
26 June 2008Chocoablog's very own Kath Lockett has been back on the radio again, talking about Dalek Cakes, hot chocolate, Lindt and chocolate recipes in general. Well worth a listen. [MEDIA=4] And you can find the Lindt Recipe Book here.
Win 1Kg of Chocolate!
25 June 2008It's been a while since we last had a competition, so we thought it was time to give away some more chocoolate! Up for grabs this time is 1kg of some of our favourite chocolate. The actual prize will be a mixture of chocolates and will almost certainly vary from the picture above, but we can
Toblerone Dark
25 June 2008I have to admit, my heart sank a little when I saw this in the shop. I love Toblerone. Proper, original, unadulterated Toblerone. And I just couldn't see how a dark chocolate version could possibly work. I know it's been around for a while now, but we've not reviewed them and this is actually the first
