Easter With Hotel Chocolat - Caramel Chocolate Scrambled Easter Egg

Think gorgeous and tasty Easter Eggs and Easter chocolate treats and I automatically head to Hotel Chocolat. In the past I have enjoyed Hotel Chocolat's deluxe egg Rocky Road To Caramel and my young son has had the Egg on Toast amongst others...

This year Hotel Chocolat invited me to choose an egg to review and as I have a real love of caramel tasting chocolate I chose the delightfully sounding Caramel Chocolate Scrambled Easter Egg 

It features one generously sized caramel chocolate Easter Egg and a packet of 6 bite size scrambled pralines - smooth praline encased in deliciously sweet caramel chocolate.

Unfortunately for me I made the mistake of showing my seven year old the Easter Egg and he asked (very nicely!) if we could have an early Easter...  Who am I to deny my little boy ... well it turns out he adores caramel chocolate and he pretty much devoured the Easter Egg, Hotel Chocolat you have a real fan of yours right here, he LOVED it! Declaring it yummy indeed. As it was a good size egg and fairly rich we did manage to eek the egg out over 3 days which I reckon is great value. I did manage to have a sneaky piece or too - oh by the way I must mention that allow the egg is hollow it is fairly strong, it took a fair few attempts to crack it!!

I ensured the pralines were safely ensconced in my possession so that I could enjoy them in peace with a cup of tea for elevenses once he was safely deposited in school. These taste every bit as good as they look. Crispy sweet caramel chocolate on the outside with a deliciously smooth praline inside, these are sophisticated and grown up, oh how I enjoyed my tea break :)

Well we were both completely sold on the Caramel Chocolate Scrambled Easter Egg and I think it is fabulous value and worth every penny at just £15. 

However, I recommend that you should definitely make a visit to a Hotel Chocolat near you or visit their website as there is a huge selection of Easter Eggs & Kiddie treats, something for every budget and taste.

Happy Easter!

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Hotel Chocolat Christmas Gifts and Chocolates This Christmas

The gift of chocolate is ideal for Christmas for the chocolate lover and I can't think of a better box selection than this one from Hotel Chocolat - The Everything Collection 

The Everything Collection box 

Contents 

Billionaire's Shortbread x 6  - My absolute favourite - featuring caramel, smooth hazelnut and crunchy cookies, sublime.

Little Cheesecakes x 4 - caramel, lemon and strawberry with mascarpone cheese - yum!

A bag of 40% Milk Puddles - lovely circles of creamy milk chocolate (my 7yr son loved these)

A bag of Salted Caramel Puddles - These are delicious and a teeny bit crunchy from the salt.

The Brownie x 6 - Rich chocolate brownies, I love rich chocolate and these went down a treat.

And 3 super cute slabs of Milk Cocoa Cookies, Salted Caramel and 70% Dark Fruit & Nut.

This box really does contain something for everyone... or in my case I enjoyed the lot :)

Hotel Chocolat The Everything Collection box costs £25 

Hotel Chocolat also do some fabulous seasonal chocolate and I was sent two of their Christmas stocking filler packs.

Mulled Wine Selector x 6 £3.75 - These are proper grown up chocolates with a boozy punch of spiced Port.

Nutmeg Almond Praline Selector x 6 £3.75 - Gorgeously smooth and creamy praline balanced with real warming spiced nutmeg in 50% milk. I love the snowflake pattern.

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The Valentine's Day Post

Picture from Wikipedia

St Valentine's Day.

What does it mean to you? Some people embrace it, others feel it is meaningless nonsense of a commercial nature.  It is traditionally a day on which lovers express their love for each other by presenting flowers, offering confectionery and sending greeting cards.

I have always really liked the idea of it. When I was at primary school I wanted to give a  letter and a packet of love hearts to the boy I fancied. In my mid teens I would receive a Valentine's card in the post every year signed with an X, I still have no idea who sent that! In my late teens to mid twenties I enjoyed and embraced the cards, dinners out and gifts from the boyfriends I was dating at the time.

I started dating my now husband in January 2003. I planned to pop to the shopping centre to pick up a card for him the night before Valentine's Day. I know, nothing like leaving it to the last minute!. Unfortunately my mum was taken ill that night so we ended up escorting her to hospital and I never got a chance to buy the card. I felt so guilty that he had bought me a card, a CD and tickets to see Blood Brothers!

Still, he must have forgiven me as we were still together for the following Valentine's Day..when yes, you guessed it, I planned to buy his card the night before and well what can I say my mum was taken ill and I was in the hospital with her. He was coming to the hospital to take me out to dinner when he got clamped by private clampers, threatened with his car being removed from the petrol station and held in a car pound. He had no option but to pay £350 cash there and then. Needless to say by the time he picked me up, neither of us was in the mood for dinner :-(

Year 3 and this time we planned to forget about the previous 2 years Valentine's and make it special, we even booked a week off work. We had just moved into our new house and all was rosy..except I started feeling ill towards the end of the week at work and by Saturday had an awful double ear infection. He cooked me a romantic dinner but I couldn't eat it, food was just dribbling out the end of my mouth (so romantic!!) and I had no coordination. I was in so much pain. I spent that week crawling around the floor feeling sick from all the medication I was on.

It has been great ever since, except 2 years ago when we spent it apart as he had to be in Ireland due to a death in the family.

Since then we have always tried to make it special whether staying at home or going out for dinner. Oh and I buy my card well in advance!

This year I would be happy to receive either of these lovely chocolate boxes from Hotel Chocolat

And if he finds himself in London then these cute meringues will do me nicely!

Enjoy!

Pictured products are available to purchase from Hotel Chocolat and Le Pain Quotidien

What will you be doing this Valentine's Day ?