Just before Christmas, a courier knocked at the door bearing a big box of chocolates. A whopping 1.3 kilograms of Thorntons chocolate no less. A friend, who knows my love of all things chocolate, sent me a Thorntons Classic Flavours...
I'm working through my stash of Christmas chocolates and came across this box of Thorntons Snowflakes and Snowballs. Designed specifically for Christmas, it featured a quartet of festive flavours. But were they any good? Packaging The square-shaped box looked very...
Fancy seeing my top advent calendar recommendations for 2019? You are never to old for an advent calendar. Or at least that's my justification for having one. Lately, Black Friday, Brexit, and, quite frankly, modern life in general all suck...
Join celebrity chef Eric Lanlard at his Cake Boy boutique and learn how to make two of his favourite mini chocolate dishes. There's also a champagne afternoon tea to enjoy at the end.
There was a time when chocolate lovers in the northwest of England faced something of a dilemma when looking for decent fare beyond the usual Cadbury’s, Thorntons and Nestlé offerings. But a quiet evolution seems to have been taking place...
Here's Chocolatier.co.uk's guide to great gifts you could buy the chocolate lovers in your family this Christmas. Stocking Fillers Rootling through a Christmas stocking is just the best way to start Christmas day. Alongside traditional gold-wrapped chocolate coins, there are...
As you might have noticed, 2012 is the year of Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee and the London Olympics – a big year for Britain. Across the chocolate world, a wave of patriotic creativity is apparent - from crown-shaped Jubilee...
Fritz Bützer, who changed his name to Frederick Belmont when he settled in Harrogate, learned to become a confectioner and chocolatier while travelling through Switzerland and France. In 1919, he opened Betty's Tea Room in the Yorkshire town which has since become an institution. The company still makes and sells a wide range of chocolates using the finest Swiss Grand Cru.
For much of its history, chocolate has been consumed in liquid form as a drink, rather than eaten as a solid. Ground cocoa, sweetened with sugar and flavoured with aromatic spices, was mixed with water or milk to make drinking...
If Andy Williams was crooning a song about Easter, he would surely describe it as the most chocolatey time of the year. So with Easter almost upon us, Chocolatier.co.uk decided to check out what some of the top chocolatiers have...
Thorntons' Master Chocolatier, Keith Hurdman was recently presented with the Chocolatier of the Year award, the industry’s most prestigious prize. But he started out on the awards trail young. By 19, he had already won a national prize for bakery....