Don't Forget Mothers Day
Sunday 31 March
Our Aperitif Collection is a perfect treat for Mothers Day. How about a Bucks Fizz, a Kir Royale or a Peach Bellini to get the day off to a bubbly start? And of course, there’s our popular Gin o’Clock truffle.
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We are in the process of upgrading our website. Please bear with us whilst we make the changes.
Due to Staff Holidays, we are only able to offer our standard collections after 10th June, and the Pick your own option will be unavailable from 10th June to 2nd July.
DON’T FORGET FATHER’S DAY ON SUNDAY 17 JUNE 2018.
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The Five o'Clock Club
Our monthly subscription club lets you enjoy brand new flavours alongside established favourites throughout the year. As well as enjoying a selection of our standard chocolates and collections, you may be invited to taste test new ideas at various stages of development. You’ll also be among the first to receive new selections before they go on general sale.
We also offer fixed term subscriptions.
We are a family run artisan chocolate company based in Wivenhoe, Essex, creating luxury handmade truffles based on cocktail recipes. Our chocolates are a fusion of two of the most loved indulgences in the world – cocktails and chocolate. You can read about our history here.
Hilary Delamare
Head Chocolatier
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Choctails Soirée
Have you seen our new look website yet? Head on over to www.choctails.org.uk/ and have a look. It's all the same great chocolates, with a sleek new design. We love it and hope you do too. Thank you to the Chili Designs team for all the hard work.
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As well as being Dark Chocolate Day, today is the anniversary of the last ever Thames Frost Fair - in 1814 the river Thames froze solid enough for Londoners to enjoy their last ever frost fair and shopkeepers set up tents selling brandy, beer, wine and gin. Victorian engineering changed the flow of the river so the Thames never froze again.
To commemorate the great fair, today's cocktail is a Dry Ice Martini, created by Simon Difford of Difford's Guide (our favourite bedtime read).
Dry Ice Martini Cocktail Recipe
diffordsguide.com
to make a dry ice martini use ketel one vodka, martini extra dry vermouth, canadian icewine and garnish with orange zest twist stir all ingredients with ice andThrowback Thursday to an idea I had to display our chocolate bars on an optic with samples of each one underneath. Whilst it drew a lot of attention, I spent more time explaining that it was just a display and that we weren't dispensing drinks and abandoned the idea after a couple of shows.The bar is open. Day 1 of the Speciality & Fine Food Fair is open.
Problem Sorted
A test run of gin bars turned out perfectly this week. No sign of any bloom, discolouration, or sticking to the mould. Phew!
Problem Solved?
During the Good Food Show weekend I bumped into Bev from the Chocolate Academy and mentioned my chocolate bar problem. I’d got a few with
Happy New Year
Having enjoyed a quiet New Year’s eve we were up early on New Year’s Day and headed to West Street Vineyard in Coggeshall for a
Where Did 2018 Go?
I really can’t believe we’ve reached the last couple of days of 2018. I blinked and missed it! We were planning on a website revamp,
