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The week of 10th – 16th October 2016 is National Chocolate Week, and so this week’s bite sized review series celebrates all things chocolate and wonderful! There’s a fab giveaway too to win a box of Shetland made chocolate!
Mirrie Dancers Chocolate – Mirrie Dancers is a new quality chocolatier based on Shetland. Locally, the Northern Lights are known as the Mirrie Dancers and this chocolatier aims to capture their magic in the palm of your hand. A wide variety of delicious flavours are currently available, with more being added regularly. £13 for a box of 12.
Godiva G – a new delicious single origin chocolate range by Belgian chocolatier Godiva launched this week for National Chocolate Week. Six different flavours including a blonde salted caramel (the first blond chocolate by Godiva), dark chocolate and orange and a milk chocolate hazelnut crisp. £6 for 75 grams.
Zaabar Chocolate Workshop – If you’re ever in Brussels, Belgium, you simply must attend the chocolate workshop at Zaabar. We’ve such fond memories of our family visit there this summer. Read more about our Belgium Chocolate Experience. Prices from €25 per person.
Yogi Choco Tea – A delicious, warming blend of traditional chai spices and cocoa shells. The cocoa combines well with sweet liquorice, cinnamon, spicy ginger and cardamom in a heavenly tea blend, perfect for these cold Autumnal evenings in front of the fire. £2.35 for a box of 17 bags.
Bioglan Superfoods Raw Bites Cacao & Quinoa – These tasty, chocolatey little bites are full to the brim with goodness and contain two whole servings of super foods. All the ingredients in Bioglan Superfoods Raw Bites are 100% natural and they do not use any added flavours (even natural ones!) £1.99 for 40 grams.
GIVEAWAY
My friend Dave (pictured above, covered in chocolate!) the Mirrie Dancers Chocolatier, has kindly offered one of my UK readers the chance to win a box of 12 of Mirrie Dancers chocolates worth £13. To enter, fill in the Rafflecopter entry form below!
HOW TO ENTER
For your chance to win a box of 12 of Mirrie Dancers chocolates worth £13 enter using the Rafflecopter form below. Come back and tweet about the giveaway every day for more chances to win!
TERMS & CONDITIONS
This giveaway is open to UK entries only. Entrants must be age 18 or over. The winner will need to respond within 30 days of being contacted; failure to do this may result in another winner being selected.
The prize is offered and provided by Mirrie Dancers Chocolatier. The prize is to win a box of 12 of Mirrie Dancers chocolates worth £13. There is no cash alternative and the prize is not transferable.
There is no entry fee and no purchase is necessary to enter this giveaway.
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Closing date is midnight (that’s 00:00 hours, 12 am on Sunday night/Monday morning) on Monday 24 October 2016 (GMT) and the winner will be announced shortly afterwards.
Elizabeth’s Kitchen Diary has received a selection of the above products for review purposes, and her family attended the chocolate workshop courtesy of P&O Ferries this summer. All thoughts and opinions expressed are our own. This is not a paid post.
Mum of three, daydream adventurer, OU Life Sciences graduate, occasional crafter, ex-pat Canadian & quite possibly Britain's most northerly food blogger.
Jo hutchinson says
I love milk chocolate with a soft caramel filling.
Charlotte G says
I love white chocolate and any chocolate that has hazlenut in 🙂
Tee simpson says
My fave chocolate is strawberry cream in milk chocolate
Kerry Webber says
My favourite chocolate has become dark chocolate. No one else in my house eats it so I get to have it all to myself!
John Jewett says
To be honest I love chocolate
claire little says
I really like milk chocolate or strawberry flavoured
Harry Baker-Farmer says
I love a smooth, creamy Swiss chocolate, like Lindt!
Diana says
My all time favourite is Kinder Bueno, but I do love any milk chocolate 🙂
Jo McPherson says
I love dark chocolate, with chilli. Also love milk chocolates with nuts or praline
Kat Allinson says
My favourite is Milk chocolate with Sea salt flakes in. I’ve only found one brand that does milk chocolate rather than dark with sea salt though
Ali Thorpe says
I like milk or dark chocolate with nuts or fruit.
Jim Milligan says
My favorite chocolate – anything by Hotel Chocolate or Montezuma, preferably ginger
sarah kirby says
I love all milk chocolate, especially those with soft centres such as orange or strawberry.
Fiona jk42 says
I love Swiss milk chocolate, especially praline flavour, and pretty much any dark chocolate.
Lynsey Buchanan says
My favourite chocolate has to be Dark Chocolate Ginger
Kev C says
I’ve always loved the thick creamy taste of Galaxy chocolate 🙂
Natalie Jones says
Fruit and nut chocolates are my fave!
Samantha R says
I love all sorts of chocolate although I can’t help but go to plain ol’ Daily Milk when I’ve got a craving 🙂
Charlotte Hoskins says
I love Galaxy chocolate or minstrels, it just slips down so easily! If only it was calorie free!
sharon martin says
i love milk chocolate and occassionally mint chocolate
Lorraine Langham says
My favourite chocolate is milk, closely followed by dark! In fact, I love most chocolates and discovered an obsession with chocolate liqueurs last Christmas!
Helen says
milk chocolate
Alison says
I would love to see the Northern lights. I love dark chocolate,
lindsey bluff says
I like anything white chocolate, doesn’t matter what it is, its my favourite
Claire D says
I love rum truffles and good quality champagne truffles
Jayne K says
Mostly milk chocolate but sometimes only dark will do … particularly if it’s minty
Pat Stubbs says
Love milk chocolate with nuts and also coffee creams
Jules says
I love Lindor chocolates. I could eat them all day! Yum yum 🙂
Danika Lloyd says
Dark chocolate with rich tones, and pralines, and truffles mmmm
Teresa says
Chocolate Brazil nuts
Carol Peace says
I love most chocolate but milk is my favourite although a lovely dark chocolate is great.
Natalie Crossan says
i love belgian chocolate x
Maureen Millward says
I love the green triangle chocolate from Quality Street
Stuart Dunlop says
I do love a nice dark chocolate and orange – it’s a great mix, and they taste yummy..
Elspeth MacMillan says
without a doubt it has to be Coffee Cream 😀
paul jackson says
my favourite is a soft caramel in milk chocolate
Trevor Linvell says
I love all chocolate, although mint chocolate is especially nice
Jayne Kelsall says
i LOVE DARK CHOCOLATE AND i LOVE MINT SO THINGS LIKE AFTER EIGHTS OR PEPPERMINT CREAMS ARE MY FAVOURITE .X
Leslie Evans says
I love Dark Chocolate of any make but Thorntons draws me in.
Susan B says
I am a big fan of Booja Booja dairy free chocolates but I also like any good quality chocolate with hard centres.
Erica Price says
I do like the combination of dark chocolate and orange.
kat lucas says
I love Milk chocolates but especially love Hershey chocolate as I grew up in the states
joanne casey says
I love good quality dark chocolate the most
Adrian Bold says
I love any chocolate with nuts in it, so Snickers is my favourite.
Nicola McC says
I love all chocolate but I particularly love milk chocolate, especially if it has nuts in it!
Janet Rumley says
Godiva chocolate – but I cannot usually afford them, so then I have Thorntons too
Marie Rule says
My favourite Chocolate would be milk chocolate with rum and raisin.
Keshia Esgate says
i love orange flavoured chocolate its so delicious! yum
Keith Hunt says
I just love mint chocolate with a cup of tea.
Cara S says
I love white chocolate, and also caramel flavoured milk chocolates
Angela Kelly says
My favourite chocolate is definitely milk with either praline or caramel. But really, I wouldn’t say no to any milk or white chocolate.
Leanne Bell says
I love all things chocolate! My current favourite is a bar of fruit and nut x
Tamsin Dean says
I adore white chocolate
hannah igoe says
I do love a salted carmel, so delicious and one that melts on the tongue!
Victoria Prince says
At the moment my favourite is Lindt 85% Dark Chocolate 🙂 Though if it’s chocolate, I’m happy 😀
suzanne brzeski says
love milk chocolate with a caramel centre, and also truffle centres
Gail Oswald says
I love milk chocolate with a caramel filling and a hazelnut! Yummy!!
Rai says
Milk chocolate with arunny orange cream filling and a hint of ginger.
Jodie Cook says
My favourite chocolate is milk chocolate and I really like it with caramel.
Emma Schofield says
Milk chocolate is my favourite it tastes lovely can’t get enough lol
Donna Caldwell says
I love dark chocolate and pistachio they taste fantastic and what a wonderful blend
Anthea Holloway says
I love all chocolates but especially a dark chocolate truffle – moist inside and crunchy on the outside.
Sheri Darby says
I adore dark chocolate pralines and truffles, especially ones with alcohol in them
Bob Clark says
I love milk chocolates – especially those with a coffee centre
charlotte Burford says
My Favourite type of chocolate has to be dark chocolate, reminds me of Christmas, and it’s very rich so I can’t scoff to much!
Angela Macdonald says
I love all chocolate but my favourites are probably anything with hard caramel, chewy or fudge texture, although I do love a Thorntons Continental truffle (or any truffle to be honest!) or salted chocolate or after eight mints,very hard to decide 🙂
Jane H Shaw says
I do enjoy raspberry and strawberry creams. I also enjoy caramel chocolates. It has to be milk chocolate as I’m not that keen on dark although I enjoy mint creams covered with dark chocolate. Thanks
Helen Gossage says
I love dark chocolate with ginger, the spicier the better
Joanna Coleshill says
I love the caramel milk chocolates from Hotel Chocolat. ! have to ration them!
gemma brown says
mint chocolate
Phyllis Ellett says
I have no favourite as such, but it has to be dark chocolate, the darker the better.
greig spencer says
milk chocolate- love wispas
Angie McDonald says
I think my favourite has to be Ferrero Rocher! They still seem like a touch of luxury when I unwrap the golden layer and they taste velvety and ever so crunchy too!
Margaret Clarkson says
I like Swiss milk chocolate with praline filling
purpleshoes says
I love anything coffee flavoured or strawberry flavoured
Caroline Hunter says
My favourite chocolate is dark chocolate, especially if it has mint, orange or nuts in it 🙂
Jade Hewlett says
I like to eat dark chocolate or mint chocolate
Rennene Hartland says
I love lindt Milk chocolate and especially the Orange chocolate balls
Aaron Broad says
I enjoy white chocolate and anything with Caramel
Mary Baldwin says
My favourite is dark chocolate and I particularly enjoy cherry liquers for Christmas – a real treat for me that I savour.
Tracy Newton says
To be honest I love all types of chocolate. If I had to choose I would say white chocolate. I love mint or fruity fondant centres
A says
I love pralines and caramel chocolate, the kind that’s basically white chocolate but where the sugar in it has been caramelised, rather than caramel-filled chocolate. Though that’s nice too!
Amanda Gregory says
It is difficult to find a favourite as I love pretty much all chocolate. Chocolate truffles or Lindor are very high up my list though.
kim wallace says
My favourite is dark chocolate and the flavours of coffee and orange
michelle o'neill says
i love dark chocolate and coffee flavours x
Joanne Beale says
I am quite partial to any chocolate with has a mint flavour
Mary Duncan says
Dark chocolate with a little chili is such a nice combination, or dark chocolate and sea salt.
kayleigh manning says
i love anything nutter and i love white chocolate
Susan Hoggett says
I love caramel flavoured chocolate or salted carmael filled ones!!
Jennifer Haden says
I like a nice dark chocolate, at least 90% and a bit bitter, don’t like it too sweet x
Ron Goodwin says
My favourite chocolate is the one I am eating at any particular moment.
Becky Watson says
Ooh chocolate orange flavours are one of my favourites! And anything with peanut butter haha x
Ruth Harwood says
How can you choose a favourite? I love Milk and dark, but White Chocolate is what I save for glutonny days or the ones where i’m less than tiptop!!
Ruth Harwood says
How can you choose a favourite? I love Milk and dark, but White Chocolate is what I save for gluttonny days!!
Nicki Evans says
I love the chilli and lime milk chocolate that montezumas make
Naomi Buchan says
I Love anything Praline or orange particularly with creamy milk chocolate x
Warren Jacobs says
truffles are my favourites followed very closely by Nutella!
Kristy Brown says
I’m quite partial to mint chocolate but usually the kids get to it first
katrina walsh says
I really like white chocolate, the creamier the better
pete c says
mine has got to be any that is coconut flavoured or perhaps a turkish delight
Suzanne Drummond says
these look amazing
Christine Caple says
My favourite chocolate is milk, and I especially like pralines
Paul Halling says
Plain milk chocolate is probably our favourite but with raisins in too
Amy warwick says
My favourite chocolate bar to eat is anything dairy milk but I love white chocolate in desserts
Katie says
I love dark chocolate and white chocolate the most. With dark chocolate, the higher percentage cocoa through better!
iain maciver says
I love milk and white chocolate , yummy in my tummy
Susan Lloyd says
I love all chocolate, but my favourites are praline and truffles x
Rachel Craig says
Cadbury’s Dairy Milk Chocolate bar is my favourite. Chocolates, I like lots :- though Thornton’s are delicious.
Laura Pritchard says
I love Guylian Belgian praline shell chocolates – they’re so decadent and taste absolutely amazing!
Angela Treadway says
I love lindor chocolate x
Lucy Major says
I love all dark chocolate but particularly elizabeth shaw’s mint crisp 🙂
Kelly Ellen Hirst says
My favourite chocolate is Lindt! I especially love the Lindt lindor chocolates
Ema J Lowe says
I like most milk chocolate, but my all time favourite is praline flavoured
Alison Johnson says
I like milk chocolate. I will eat any type of chocolate except ones with nuts or raisins in them, but plain milk chocolate is my favourite.
Kelly Jones says
My favourite is milk chocolate with a hint of sea salt 🙂
Holly @lovepopsie says
I love love love rose chocolate or Earl Grey flavoured chocolate! Anything a little bit floral is a winner!
Emma Rawlinson says
I love any kind of milk chocolate, but especially Galaxy Caramel 🙂
Bryony Smith says
These look wonderful, i love chocolate and northern lights inspired ones should taste like heaven
claire blaney says
I love any chocolate with nuts in im a really nutty chocolate fan,and my favourite kind is white chocolate
C Kennedy says
I absolutely love truffles! Every time we get a box of chocolates I steal all the truffles 😀
jenna rothen says
i love any chocolate with praline or mint
marie miles says
I LOVE CHOCOLATE, white, milk, plain, it dont matter to me i am a self confessed CHOCOHOLIC, however i do love coconut like bounty and lindor do an amazing coconut truffles i could eat a whole box, im also a fan of topic bars i got one by accident picking it up in shop thinking it was something else but i must say i am kind of addicted to these now, yummy my mouths watering thinking of chocolate.
Suzanne McCusker says
A good quality dark chocolate with a tart fruity centre is top of my list – raspberry or lime flavour are favourites
sam macaree says
i really like guylian shells, my grandma gets them for me every christmas
Sharon H says
I love anything praline but especially a creamy praline truffle.
Emma Livesey says
I ADORE champagne truffles! They are amazing and my ask for them every birthday.
Iris W says
I like most chocolate especially the caramel or nutty ones
leanne weir says
I love anything that is white chocolate. I am a bit of a chocolate monster
emily omara says
i love caramel or anything with white chocolate. would be so happy if i won this so keeping my fingers tightly crossed!
Paul Roughan says
Favourite chocolate is a hard question as there is so much to choose from but salted caramel is always a winner.
ValB says
I love all chocolate – milk dark or white but especially any with nuts in
Angela G says
I love mint chocolates, followed by fruit chocolates like strawberry fondants then failing that it is hazlenuts and chocolate.Any brand is fine with me.
CLAIRE woods says
The best chocolate I have ever tried is anything by Hotel Chocolat but it’s expensive so it’s once a year treat at Christmas.
Charlotte Foy says
I love any hazelnut chocolate. Currently enjoying my own homemade low fat ferrero rochers!
Kate Knight says
I love honeycomb or praline, ideally dark chocolate
Laura Nice says
I love white chocolate, its my favourite, although any will do! 🙂
Solange says
At the moment I absolutely love champagne truffles.
Barbara Knight says
I love Montezumas chocolates, but I also love to try new-to-me brands of chocolate.
Carole E says
I think my favourite he got to be orange chocolate
Carole E says
I love orange chocolate
Lisa Parker says
I love Ferrero Raffaello’s as they are so gorgeous and I am a relunctant sharing when it comes to these x
Samantha Fernley says
I like different types of chocolate depending what mood I am in. I’ve been poorly this week and just simple milk chocolate has been perfect. On a weekend I love to pick up a bar of something new to try like choc and seasalt.
Natalie White says
Anything with honeycomb in it! Yum 🙂
kim plant says
I really like the tub of roses specially the barrel caramel ones x
Jo Carroll says
I pretty much adore choccy in all it’s amazing forms. My favourite is probably milk choc & hazlenut but I’m very partial to the dark kind too. x
Susan Ellins says
I love cadbury’s anything. Chocolate anything really…..
helen tovell says
My favourite is a mint crisp with dark chocolate the bitterness with the mint and that hint of crunch, perfect combination
clair downham says
i love a cadburys caramel or champagne truffles or anything with strawberry or orange cream thankyou
jennifer thorpe says
my favourite chocolate at the moment is salted caramel or chocolate orange
Laura Jeffs says
I absolutely adore dark chocolate, but I also love truffles..yummy!!!
alan mcveigh says
I think it would have to be milk chocolate honeycomb!
Caroline H says
I just love marzipan so my favourite would have to be Niederegger Mini Loafs.
Kim Neville says
My favourites are Lindt praline chocolates so delicious
Kate Rushton says
I love all of the chocolates produced by Layla (Cocoa By L). They are all made of pure ingredients and are divine.
Anthony Harrington says
I love it all!! I do have a very soft spot for dark chocolate, delicious!
Melissa Red says
I like lots of chocolates but my favourite has to be mint chocolate.
Sarah N says
I’ve never met a chocolate I didn’t like. I do enjoy a coffee flavoured chocolate though.
winnie says
i love all chocolates but my favourite is dark chocolate
fozia Akhtar says
Chilli chocolate is an awseome combination. Really yummy
Choclette says
How can you expect me to say what my favourite chocolate is? My favourite chocolates were Chocolarders salted caramels, but for some unfathomable reason, he’s stopped making them 🙁 So I shall go for something more mundane, but still very good – G&Bs almond bar.
frances hopkins says
I would say probably dark chocolate but not when its very sour, I’m not keen then
CLARE GORST says
I love fruit creams – I know a lot of people don’t but they are my favourite, particularly orange and lemon and if I could ever get hold of them, lime ones!
Rachael G says
I am not sure I have a single favourite, but I do love a good chocolate praline.
Robyn S says
My favourite are raspberry or orange cream chocolates
Hayley F says
At the moment my favourite chocolate is lindt salted caramel x
Ellie Wood says
I love white chocolate, but especially coffee creams!
laura banks says
that would have to be dark chocolate but im a bit partial to anything with nuts
Simon tutthill says
It has to be guylan seashells,fantastic taste that melts in your mouth
Liane Amos says
Anything with coconut or nuts in.
Gemma Godfrey says
I love chocolate with caramel in, especially if it’s salted caramel. Although I’m not fussy, any chocolate’s good for me!
Hannah Robertson says
I really love chocolate with coconut in it. Salted caramel is also great!
alison fisher says
dark chocolate with a hint of mint is just delish! plus the kids dont like it so it doesnt get nicked!!
Alica says
I love any chocolate but if it has salted caramel with it, I am very happy!
Rachel S says
Hard to choose – fair trade, organic, rainforest friendly and ideally with caramel and spices
Andrea A says
My favourite chocolate is dark chocolate with a mint crème centre.
Jan Beal says
I love milk chocolates but I do enjoy dark chocolate especially if it has a coffee flavour filling
Louise Comb says
This is such a Sophie’s choice question. I’ve never met a chocolate yet that I didn’t love. But if you force me to choose, I guess my absolute fave would be a handmade, high quality, creamy, milk chocolate praline – but, please don’t tell the others, I wouldn’t want to risk offending them 🙂
Krzysia says
What a difficult question as I love so many but I’m particularly partial to pralines, truffles or white chocolate with raspberry.
Jane Willis says
I love Thorntons diabetic Turkish Delight – but my husband lobes all chocolate
Tania Atfield says
I love all chocolate but my favourite is milk with caramels
Stacey Carnell says
I love all chocolate but especially ones with nuts in Mmmmmmm <3
sarah birkett says
mint, minty or mintish. give me a bos of assorted mint chocolates and I am in heaven
Karen R says
I really enjoy chili chocolate – all the more because the rest of my family hate it!
Amber Rossi says
Salted Dark Chocolate Caramel with a hazlenut!
Liam Bishop says
I honestly love all kinds, but mainly white is my fav.
Corinne Henson says
I love any milk chocolate that has nuts in. I’m quite partial to a Ferraro Rocher
Tracey Peach says
My favourite chocolate is strawberry chocolate but it’s very hard/impossible to find it now, I also love white chocolate & milk chocolate too 🙂
Paul Wilson says
I don’t really have a favourite, I like to try a wide variety.
Louise A says
I love all chocolate white, milk and dark but my favourite filling is praline
Jen Schofield says
I love milk chocolate and fillings like honeycomb
Matt McAndrew says
I created my own white chocolate and caramel bar which is the greatest thing ever.
Pauline Hill says
caramel chocolate is my favorite
Julie Kenny says
I love ALL chocolate but especially Thorntons chocolates – thanks for the chance to win – these loo delicious x
Claire Nutman says
That difficult as i love all chocolate really, but dark chocolate is especially gorgeous x
Louise Cochran-Mason says
Dark chocolate, with mint or orange flavours is good too.
Marycarol says
Love chocolate full stop whether its white, milk or dark and especially with nuts x
Andrea Miles says
I may be really boring but I must admit I love coffee creams, although I’m only supposed to eat high cocoa dark chocolate
Lorraine Stone says
Reallu into milk chocolate with sea salt at the moment. Also love milk choc with cookies crumbled in.
Angela Milnes says
my fav is praline chocolate or anything with hazelnuts.
Fiona K says
My favourite chocolate is called ‘chocolat riche truffle’ because it is rich, creamy and delicious
Becky John says
I love Hazelnut Praline chocolates, or Galaxy Ripple bars
Jenny says
I didn’t know there was a National Chocolate Week, what a wonderful excuse to try new chocolate brands!
Rebecca williams says
I love guylian shells, I have to eat them quick or my son would eat them all 🙂
C Noakes says
I think it would have to be milk chocolate honeycomb!
Tracy Nixon says
I love a few brands, especially Galaxy, Ferrero Rocher, Guylian and Lindt!
rebecca green says
i love truffles and anything with slated chocolate or salted caramel
Kelly Glen says
How can you pick a favourite chocolate, they are all so lovely.
Becky Yeomans says
I love salted caramel chocolate, I love the combination of the saltyness and sweetness at the same time.
Kayleigh Tanner says
I love dark chocolate and salted caramel! Though if we’re talking chocolate bars, it has to be Kinder Buenos – love that silky hazelnut cream!
Alan Chung says
I do like truffles as they are indulgent
Emily Knight says
Tough call! My favourite I’ve tried recently is Doisy and Dam – they make some really interestingly flavoured chocolate!
Maria P says
I love the combination of white chocolate and coffee
Laura says
I can’t choose a favourite!! Hmm, for everyday chocolate bars I really like Minchies and Star bars. For more expensive fancy chocolates I rather like whisky truffles. Or champagne truffle. Or maybe… Ok il stop!