My wife joined a chocolate tasting club a while back. Funnily enough it was called the “Choclate Tasting Club”! It was something that I thought she would get bored of very quickly.
How wrong could I be. We’re 2 years down the road now and I am now an enthusiastic participant in the quarterly tasting box that arrives in the post. Sometimes the chocolates are poor, sometimes their average but mostly they are delicious. The great thing is that you get to try new chocolate combinations that haven’t hit the mainstream. Exotic combinations like chilli and dark chocolate or how about this months winning chocolate, the Cherry Pannacotta – “bringing together a creamy, cocoa butter-rich pannacotta with a tangy, tart cherry compote and playing the two off against each other to great effect.” Ummmm mouth watering.
Receiving these chocolates once a quarter and filling out the rating card can honestly brighten up your day. At the very least you get an incredible hit of delicious chocolate!
For me this would make a great gift for just about anybody. Current membership is £15.95 ($24) per month
I have come across chocolate fountains at parties and always love to indulge by dipping a few marshmellows. It’s terribly naughty and terribly nice. I have assumed for some time that chocolate fountains were predominantly hired for special occasions from companies who specialise in that sort of thing. So I was quite pleasantly surprised to discover that you can now purchase your very own chocolate fountain for the garden. I’m sure it would work just as well inside the house for dipping those strawberries “9 and a half weeks style” Mickey Rourke can eat his heart out with this little gadget.
Anyway the cordless, Giles Posner chocolate fountain with rechargeable batteries is perfect for BBQ’s and garden parties and comes with 900g of milk or dark chocolate - that wouldn’t really last me very long, but there you go.
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