Our Ingredients

 ... A fresh look at chocolates

Our aim at Lick the Spoon is to produce the finest chocolates without compromise on ingredients.

Sounds simple doesn't it?...but it's more than taking a great chocolate and making it into a truffle...it's about being inspired by every ingredient we use and developing a recipe that sums up the essence of the place where that ingredient was born and the people that gave it life!

Fortunately for us we make chocolates in the wonderful county of Wiltshire in the heart of the West country. We are surrounded by a land rich in farming and food traditions, and bustling away behind the familiar face of the big retailers is an army of skilled, passionate producers who each do their bit to make our chocolates the best in the west!

Our ganaches are made using fresh organic Jersey cream from Ivy House farm, Beckington, sourced from our local farm shop at Allington. We use English sea salt, wild cob nuts from a small farm in Saltash and Earl Grey tea with wild blue cornflowers from the Wiltshire Tea company.
 

Our honey is the award winning Chad's honey from Brinkworth, Wiltshire. We use the wonderful Waterhouse Harvest jam made with the Tayberries, Tummelberries and Raspberries grown on their farm in Devon. Bramley & Gage of Thornbury produce a fabulous elderflower liqueur, and vintage apples grown in the heart of Somerset add a touch of magic to the Somerset Royal cider apple brandy.

Though the South west climate is not yet temperate enough to grow cacao, we do have the bold and rustic Venzuelan Black chocolate from Willie Harcourt-Cooze which we use in our Wonky truffle.

Our original recipes are carefully matched to use the finest couvertures from Peru, Saint Domingue, Equador and Venezuela. The wonderful Venezuelan fair trade company El-Rey produce the only non-deoderised white chocolate we know of, allowing the full complexity of flavours to come through. Like fine wines these couvertures take their characteristics from the very environment in which they grow.

That's Lick the Spoon... creating chocolate memories

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