The origin of the word ‘cocoa’ in the English language is frequently a point of discussion. In the last two years ‘cacao’ has become much more commonly used and has been extolled by health bloggers and Sunday supplements as being a completely different and generally superior product to cocoa! Well…., neatly side-stepping that particularly pot […]
Since our visit to Madagascar last year we have supported the Avokany Faravohitra children’s home with ongoing financial sponsorship. The wonderful charity Small Steps for Africa who coordinate the sponsorship visited the home earlier this year. We thought you’d love to read about their trip below. Taken from Small Steps for Africa’s annual report… […]
Over the years we’ve received many fine food and business awards. As we approach our eleventh anniversary we thought it would be a good chance to recap on the 70 awards we’ve won since we started in 2006…. Champion Chocolate 2018 Taste of the West Awards – Orangey Chocolate Sticks Finalist Taste of the West Gold […]
Please place last orders guaranteed for Easter delivery by 5pm Monday 21st March (today!). It’s an early cut-off but we want to make sure we get all of your Easter Chocolates to you. Thursday is our last delivery day before Easter so we need to dispatch Wednesday 23rd at the latest. If you have placed […]
Our Christmas Chocolates range is now available to buy for all of you early shopping birds! For 2015 we have a wonderful new addition to our best selling Christmas chocolate snowlgobes – Our milk chocolate Reindeer with white chocolate snow flakes. To accompany him (or her – you decide) we’ve also brought back our famous […]
We’ve been making and selling our own recipe Chocolate Salami for several years now… so we thought we would take some time to explore the origins and traditions surrounding this classic Italian and Portuguese dessert. I used to take great pleasure serving our chocolate Salami to tourists visiting our Cotswold chocolate shop. A particular Italian […]
Some of you may remember that we first introduced the Chocolate Pi last year as our chocolate room sentinel tweeting us the state of our chocolate store room. It did a noble job throughout last summer informing us that the chocolate room was ‘nice and cool’. Alas in October the service we used to tweet […]
You’ve made a cow very happy today! Why we pay a fair price for cream and have signed up to the government’s Prompt Payment Scheme… I was reading the Sunday paper the other day about the plight of dairy farmers in the UK. It’s been difficult for them for many years now but the ongoing […]
It’s Halloween and we thought we would share with you some of the quite frankly scary things that happen in the chocolate factory…. floating heads, faceless creatures, bucket heads (well we all have those moments!). It’s just a bit of fun set in a haunted chocolate factory (it’s not too scary for little ones) – […]
Picture the scene…breakfast time on a Greek Island. A light cool breeze wafting the scent of tropical flowers over the balcony, the azure sea glinting a cheeky promise of snorkelling delights to come later in the day. The bleached wooden table bears baskets of fresh breads and fruit. Before you sits a bowl of unctuous […]