When you next visit South Wales, be sure to make a beeline for the Big Pit National Coal Museum in Blaenavon, Torfaen. It's a slog to get to and it rains every time I visit, but it's free to enter...
There I was, placing an order for an innovative new Hot Chocolate Shaker when my finger "accidentally" clicked 'order' on a 65g bar of Gingerbread Blonde Chocolate and a 65g bar of Mince Pie Milk Chocolate. What can I say?...
Everyone loves receiving a gift hamper. Perhaps it's because of the mystery of what's squirrelled away inside, or perhaps it's got something to do with reigniting our childhood obsessions with opening presents. As a giver, I find gift hampers to...
Virginia Hayward hampers offer affordable luxury, with beautiful presentation and carefully curated products in each one. For us chocolate lovers, there's a range of hampers and gift boxes at a selection of price points to suit all tastes and budgets. Some include booze, too.
I don't know about you, but when I'm not eating the stuff, I'm reading about chocolate. I own an ever-growing library of books about chocolate, covering everything from its birth as the product we know today, delicious recipes, the science...
Just one glimpse at the chocolates in the Christmas 2019 range at Waitrose & Partners is all it took for me to know I wanted to buy it all! This beautiful collection of boxed chocolates all looks and sounds divine....
The nights are beginning to draw in earlier, and naturally I'm looking to my hot chocolate collection to cheer me up. Then I spot a pouch of Sloane's Posh Hot Chocolate, this time in a 53% Winter Blend. How can...
This interactive at-home course spans four parts and along with up to 20 virtual classmates, you'll learn how to temper chocolate like a pro chocolatier as well as plenty of secret chocolate making hacks and techniques for sublime results.
When I cast my mind back to my chocolate travels to Brussels nearly a decade ago, there's one shop window that had me agasp. Delicate handcrafted chocolate baubles formed an exquisite Christmas tree display. That memory has stuck with me,...
Thursday 14th November marked the official start to the countdown to Christmas 2019 as John Lewis & Partners and Waitrose & Partners released their highly anticipated Christmas advert. This year, instead of each brand releasing individual adverts, the two brands...
Aldi has revealed its line-up of festive treats for 2019, with a giant Nutcracker chocolate model and a giant chocolate bauble headlining its Christmas range. Moser Roth Giant Nutcracker Moser Roth Giant Nutcracker. Photo credit to Aldi This 1kg 50cm-tall...
The nights are drawing in and that can mean only one thing - it's hot chocolate season! I love this time of year, when the variety of hot chocolates burst onto the marketplace just in time for Christmas. A while...