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Press
Release 13th
August 2007
Chippenham
based chocolatier Lick the Spoon
have been awarded both Gold and Silver in the
prestigious Taste of the West awards.
In
the highly competitive confectionery category with over
fifty entries, Lick the Spoon won the elusive gold award
for their “One for me - One for you” handmade
chocolate selection and silver for their “85% Chocolate
coated Ginger”
Chocolatier
Diana Short is delighted and attributes the success to the
“classic combination of quality ingredients and original
recipes, beautifully hand tempered chocolate, and oodles
of passion!”
Diana
has just spent the weekend with her husband and two young
sons picking wild blackberries to make bramble
jelly…”the essence of my Mulled Blackberry chocolate
is a homemade bramble jelly, which
has to be made from the wild variety, fresh from
the hedgerow…the cultivated varieties simply don’t
have the same flavour ”she insists. It’s a race
against time to gather enough to see them through the
year, but if they run out, there will be no substituting
with a shop bought jelly…”Our chocolates are
seasonal..we like to feature special recipes to suit the
time of year. The strawberry truffles have been a good
seller through the summer, but already we are gearing up
for Christmas and developing new centres like a truffle
with pure Madagascan vanilla and single estate
chocolate”.
The
small family business has only been going for 9 months,
but they hope to eventually expand into a shop. For now,
their chocolates can be bought from their website or from
a few select retail outlets, amongst them, The Allington
Farm shop who supply them with the cream and local honey
for their creations.
“These
awards have made all the hard work worthwhile and given us
a real confidence boost” says Diana…and here’s to
many more!
www.lickthespoon.co.uk
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