Chocolates

I like some soft centres but for me, it is the toffee and nut centres that I go for. Consequently, Roses and Quality Street are definitely losing their edge.
I love Cadbury's Marvellous Creation chocolate bar. The popping candy with jelly beans mixed with the chocolate makes such an enjoyable explosion on your taste buds. I love Salted Caramel but I haven't found an particularly good chocolate with it in yet. Green & Blacks used to do a caramelised nut version of their milk chocolate and that was heavenly. Of course, it was so lovely, they discontinued it.

I always look on back now before I buy chocolates at the description because there are so many changes and duplicates.

MiniMoon

I liked the lime barrel in Milk Tray. I may be in the minority here but it was yummy.

Me too. I love anything lime flavoured

I like Lindt chocolates, you can buy a box and choose the flavours that you like. I had a special Heart shape bought for me and I was able to choose lots of various flavours which I enjoyed. There is not the same selection of types of chocolates but there is a huge range of flavours.

Oh dear, just spotted the raspberry and the blackcurrant ones. Now I have no hope of choosing.

Fairislecable

Sorry forgot the link:

www.laudenchocolate.com/collections/single-flavour-boxed-collections

Wow, they look nice. Plenty of fruity soft centres by the look of it. I have a birthday and Mother's Day coming up so will put this on my wish list. Can't decide between Strawberries and Cream or Lychee and Rose. But then there's orange, lemon or lime too..... 😋

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Cadbury was bought by American Mondaleez (can’t spell it) and hasn’t been worth eating since. It’s full of palm oil and tastes intensely sweet but not of chocolate. As American chocolate is notoriously awful they have wrecked our old favourites.

Sorry forgot the link:

www.laudenchocolate.com/collections/single-flavour-boxed-collections

I was given some Lauden chocolates once and there is no going back to anything else. The outer shell is crisp and choclety and the inner cream is fresh and flavourful.

DH loves the blackcurrant and these can be ordered as one box.

They are made in UK from quality ingredients.

I agree with Blossoming . They are especially nice.

I don’t like milk chocolate or soft centres, oh for Terry’s Spartan.

I had a box of Black Magic for Christmas. They were very disappointing and some I found inedible.

Milk Tray, lime barrels. They should bring these back.

I only buy chocolates from Kennedy’s Chocolate Factory these days. Expensive, delicious and worth every penny.

www.kennedyschocolates.co.uk/

We also received boxes of really nasty tasting chocolate .

The centres were vile and some of the chocolate tasted dry and almost chalky .

I didn't do it this year , but I think that my homemade truffles taste far better .

I buy and far prefer bars and the favourite at the moment are the Ferrero Rocher bars from Iceland .

I would rather have a couple of chocolates from Hotel Chocolat than a box of any other make.

NotSpaghetti

Oh, Tony's chocolate is horrible in my opinion. Sorry

Got a ‘free bar’ with a food delivery. Glad it was free because I didn’t like it.

I think Cadbury chocolates are no longer worth buying. I believe it is an American company owners now and has changed the recipe. No longer buy anything made by Cadbury.

I wouldn't eat Cadbury's chocolate even if they paid me, not proper chocolate at all.
My DD brings me Belgian chocolate from the chocolatier in Brussels and Swiss chocolate when she has to work in Geneva, spoilt mois ? 😆

I'm not a fan either Gingster but I was trying to help those who love Creams and fondant- there are not so many of them these days I think.

Hotel chocolate for a treat or gift - can’t be beaten.
I loathe the cream centred chocs, strawberry, orange, lemon etc. makes my mouth tingle at the thought. Yuk!

Go Aldi. Much nicer. Here anyway.

charbonnel.co.uk/

Charbonnel et Walker still do lovely selection boxes

The creamy options ard things like:
Rose & violet cream
Lemon and coconut fondant
Coconut cream
Strawberry fondant
Orange cream

These are the ones I don't want
Think the last box I saw at a friend's house was mixed dark/milk.
They are not cheap.

Just like meat, well, any food really, it is always best to pay the most you can afford.

So we treat ourselves to a box once a year, maybe also at Easter , from a local chocolatier. We can choose the contents and know it is made in the traditional way.

They are divine.