Notes on chocolate: elegant treats for when the Easter eggs are gone | Chocolate

It’s Easter and this appears the precise time to be speaking about Christmas. Solely joking! I’ll not be consuming very a lot chocolate right this moment as a result of, see previous columns and simply how a lot Easter chocolate I have examined.

My massive weak spot in the mean time is Luisa’s Sicilian Orange. Though for Easter this got here in a flat egg or bunny form (each had been £10.50), it’s the bijou bar I actually love, £5.25. It’s made utilizing 75% cocoa chocolate (I’d really adore it if Luisa went even larger on this), however with studs of candied Sicilian orange peel all through. It’s the proper combine. I tuck somewhat bar of this in my bag once I go travelling to maintain me firm and I do know that, at 50g for the entire bar – the items are pleasingly chunky, it would final me two days. I do want she’d do that in an even bigger bar, however then it could spoil the mini-magic.

I additionally loved Eponine’s Floral Fondant Lotions, £20 for a field of 16. Rose and violet lotions appear to be having fun with a little bit of a renaissance and these are in a bonbon form, darkish chocolate-coated (milk chocolate could be all shades of incorrect right here) and the centres are gooey raspberry with rose, and blackcurrant with violet to offer a pleasant sharp zing to the comforting embrace of the violet and rose. These are pretty for a spring birthday. (They do include meals colouring so watch out if you’re delicate to this.)

Additionally, for a post-Easter deal with do try Fiona Pâtissière’s attractive connoisseur bins, from £9.25. Take a look at Fiona’s Insta for up to date flavours, however there’s normally one thing caramel-ly and deliciously nutty, all coated in wonderful chocolate and each piece handmade.