The story behind our Mary Pickford cocktail truffle… Canadian born Mary Pickford was a glamorous 1920’s silent film actress known as ‘America’s sweetheart’. At one point the highest paid woman in America! An astute business woman she was also a producer and co-founded the United Artists studio, as well as the Academy of Motion Picture Arts […]
We’re delighted that our new Plastic Free Packaging Easter range launches in the flagship John Lewis Foodhall, Oxford Street next week! Though we were a little late to the cocktail party our John Lewis buyer was so impressed with the new designs and ethos that he’s helped arrange a display case for the Oxford Street […]
Chocolat Madagascar is one of our key suppliers of chocolate. Grown in the North-West of the island in the Sambirano valley region Madagascan Cacao is renowned for its fine fruity flavour notes and has won many International awards. Whilst many small artisans source beans direct from farmers in this region, we prefer the Raisetrade (1) […]
There’s another chance to see Diana with fellow time travelling confectioners Andy Baxendale, Cynthia Stroud and Paul A Young in The Sweet Makers Christmas Special Friday 21st December at 16:15. You can watch the trailer below and find out further information on the BBC website here Four modern confectioners immerse themselves in the world […]
I was delighted to meet Sergio Restrepo of Casa Luker chocolate at the London Chocolate Forum last week. Casa Luker supply us with their wonderful dark chocolate, which together with Chocolat Madagscar forms the cornerstone upon which our dark chocolates are made. Like Chocolat Madagscar Casa Luker make all of their chocolate in Colombia keeping […]
We were delighted yesterday to host our friends from Chocolat Madagascar – Nicolas Randrianarimalala, export manager of Chocolat Madagscar and Neil Kelsall founder of Raisetrade. In 2016 Nicolas and Neil hosted us in Madagscar taking us on a wonderful journey from the Cocoa plantation in the North-West Sambirano valley through to the Robert factory in the […]
Lick the Spoon are among the Great Taste winners of 2018 Great Taste, the world’s most coveted food awards, which celebrates the very best in food and drink, has announced the Great Taste stars of 2018. Out of over 12,600 products to be judged, Lick the Spoon was awarded two 2-star Great Taste awards, which […]
The first preview of our Wholesale Christmas Chocolates range catalogue for 2018 is now available to browse and download by clicking on the PDF catalogue links here… Lick the Spoon Christmas 2018 Catalogue We have some fantastic new Chocolates including our new Vegan friendly Botanical Chocolate Range, a new Chocolate Snowglobe and a new version […]
It’s getting close to Easter – Good Friday is next Friday 30th January. To allow us time to make dispatch can Wholesale Customers (those with a shop and wholesale logins) please place last orders for delivery before Easter by end of day today – Friday 23rd March. For Retail customers – that’s most people visiting […]
We have some beautiful Luxury handmade Easter Eggs for 2018. As featured in BBC Olive Magazine, The Stylist and the London Evening Standard. Each egg is handmade, hand decorated, from the finest cacao beans. You can find out more about our Easter Collection 2018 here. Shop our 2018 Easter Egg Collection here