One of the most important (and lucrative) times of the year for chocolatiers is Valentine’s day. So here is my round-up of the best British Valentine’s chocolate around, to please every chocolate aficionado.
Montezuma’s Valentine’s Chocolate Truffle Selection – £10.99 for 16 truffles
Beautiful packaging with diddy little truffles, with the following flavours:
- White chocolate with Strawberry ganache
- Milk chocolate with Maple Syrup ganache
- Dark Chocolate and White chocolate with Vanilla ganache
The Chocolate Society – The Valentine’s Collection 2015 – £24.50 for 18 handmade hearts
Artisan handmade chocolates, made with Valrhona couverture in small batches.
Flavours include:
- Blonde sea salt caramel
- Raspberry and Rose caramel
- Madagascan truffle
Demarquette – Chocolate Caramel Hearts – 6 hearts for £12
Melting caramels made with fresh fruit purées.
- Devon Strawberry caramel
- Passion Fruit caramel
Lauden – Strawberries & Cream Chocolates – £10 for 10 hearts
Dark chocolate shells filled with a dreamy strawberries and cream filling.
Chococo – The Love Pod – £17.50
A Venezuelan chocolate cocoa pod, filled with fresh truffles and chocolates.
Flavours include:
- Melting Milk Truffles
- Raspberry Riot
- Salt Sweet Smoke
- Romantic Rose
- Champagne and Kalamansi
- Perfect Passion
Melt – Valentine’s Box – 10 fresh chocolates for £19
- White chocolate bonbon with raspberry marshmallow filling
- Dark chocolate hearts with salted caramel
- Rose and Lychee pate de fruits
- Dark chocolate crunchy square
- Gianduja dome
And finally, my personal favourite…
The Chocolatier (Aneesh Popat) – Love Heart – £25
A glorious chocolate heart, filled with Piedmont hazelnut praline, rice crisps, caramelised hazelnut crumble and popping candy. Deelish!
Now, although not strictly chocolate, I had to include this little beauty. The packaging, the contents and the description just made me salivate.
Anges de Sucre – Valentine’s Sweet Treat Box – £15
Each box includes two macarons, two marshmallows, one muffle (a marshmallow truffle) and two teacakes.
Happy Valentine’s everyone!