Cadbury Crunchie Rocks

As you’ve probably guessed by now, I don’t tend to go in for mass-market candy-esque chocolates. Sure, I once bought supermarket-brand Mars Bars to make bonza bubble truffles, but that was the exception, not the rule. Picnics? Meh. The wafer always seems stale. Snickers? At least they have peanuts. Bounty bars? Too much coconut. Boost [...]

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The Curious Chocolatier Holiday Spice Milk Chocolate with Pecans and Cranberries

When you were a child, were you ever taken to a store that sold expensive items yet didn’t bother to protect them behind, say, glass? Perhaps it was a music shop where guitars and flutes and bongos stood out like playmates in the schoolyard, beckoning you to touch them with your Chupa Chups-holding hands? Or [...]

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Chocomize Dark Chocolate with Mini Pretzels, Cinnamon Toast Cereal, and Poppy Seeds

See? My head isn’t an entirely loopy place to be. Sure, I like to keep things interesting by adding Tabasco to my peanut butter cookies and, when given the chance, designing a customised chocolate bar topped with edamame, curry powder and granola. But sometimes I do tend towards the tried-and-true. Sometimes, I aim for overall [...]

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Theo Coconut Curry Milk Chocolate

It’s the return of the gorgeous Theo designs! The last time I showcased a chocolate from Theo’s 3400 Phinney range, I was in raptures. The Hazelnut Crunch remains one of the best milk chocolates I’ve had, although admittedly the scrumptiousness was more about the salty-toffee-roasted-nuts than the chocolate itself… I’ve allowed this particular Theo chocolate [...]

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Chocomize Milk Chocolate with Edamame, Curry Powder, and Pomegranate Granola

Some people get excited by sports. Others, by spotting birds in the bush. Then you’ve got your death metal devotees, your Gleeks, and your pansy gardeners (I am, of course, referring to the flowers). For me, one of the best feelings in the world is spending the first night in Smurf Kitchen snuggled up in blankets, [...]

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Nuts Taste Better Caramelised: Green & Black’s Peanut Milk Chocolate

Do you know what makes me sad? When an overseas chocolate company sends the majority of its products to Australia but withholds the best (well, my favourite) flavours from our girt-by-sea shores. Case in point? Green & Black’s, which despite selling almost its entire range of chocolate bars in mainstream supermarkets in Australia, has refused to send [...]

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A Pair of Thorntons #2: Tonka and Lightly Salted Pistachio

My intention had been to intersperse the Thorntons’ reviews with my backlog of other chocolates, but after two lovely ladies cleverly pre-empted one of my just-eaten Thorntons in the last chocolate review, I decided to instead keep at this UK chocolate company…  Thorntons Milk Chocolate with Tonka Bean I had never heard of tonka beans before coming across [...]

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