The Hotel Chocolat Tasting Club

Yay its Wednesday, the sun is shining and the postman delivered a large box today from Hotel Chocolat's Tasting Club :)

A little bit addicted to Hotel Chocolat after munching my way through the Sleekster Easter Egg selection that I won a couple of weeks ago, so when I saw an introductory office on their website to sign up to the Chocolate Tasting Club for £9.95 inc delivery I couldn't resist!

Plus as I went through TopCashBack I got £7.45 cashback, making this an absolutely steal at £2.50!!

You can pick from Milk, Mixed, All Dark, No Alcohol and Rare Cocoa.  Curtis and I love dark chocolate (I know, how strange for a child to like dark chocolate!) so we picked the All Dark selection. It contains 32 yummy scrummy chocolates.

Had to get a quick pic of the chocs - the boys were not happy that they had to wait!

 It has a card inside the box with a picture of the chocolate and a description, most of them contain alcohol so if you don't like chocolate with your alcohol you won't like this!  There are a couple of chocolates without alcohol and of course Curtis has first dibs on these! It also has a scoring sheet at the bottom of the card where you can mark the chocolates out of 10.

The chocs have yummy names such as Cherry Bakewell, Rhubarb Truffle, Indian Summer, Heart of Kirsch.  I choose Indian Summer - wow nearly took my head off - thats a LOT of alcohol!

As an introductory offer we also got a 60g sachet of liquid dark chocolate - can't wait to make a hot chocolate with this.

The tasting club is a subscription service that you can cancel at any time.  The monthly cost is £19.95 inc delivery.

I have really enjoyed the chocolates I have tried but I can't justify spending £20 a month on chocolate (especially as I should be dieting!) so this will be the only box I get.

You can read more about the offer on the Chocolate Tasting Club website, don't forget about the £7.45 cashback from TopCashBack.  If you have not yet signed up please feel free to use my referral link

What do you think? Scrummy yummy? Is £20 a month too much to spend on a box of chocolates?

Hotel Chocolat Winnings!

Hotel Chocolat have been running an Easter Competition over on their Facebook page to win a gorgeous chocolatey prize.  It has been so popular that all 90,000 prizes have already been given away!

To enter the competition you had to "like" their FB page then click on a door key and it revealed your prize, ranging from a small egg to a years supply of chocolate!

I won the Sleekster Easter Egg Selection worth a whopping £22! The description on the website says

An exciting collection of 30 gorgeous filled mini eggs created especially for passing around and sharing this Easter – including melt-away milk and caramel pralines, silky smooth truffles with champagne and lemon, soft caramel and more.

Passing round and sharing???!!!! These pics are as close as I'm getting to sharing my chocolate!

I tried to get a couple of pictures but its still going dark so early that the light is awful so please excuse the quality!

I had the pink champagne egg and it was blimin gorgeous! Could taste the alcohol!

My hubby won a salted caramel egg sandwich worth £8.  The description on the website is:

Everyone loves an egg sandwich, which is exactly why we created these little beauties. And dare we say, we might even have improved on it – with two mellow slabs of salted caramel and 50% milk chocolate sandwiched between caramel chocolate egg shells, studded with salted caramel pieces and chocolate chips.

Can't wait to have a little nibble of this, will swap him for a whisky egg!  Ssshhh don't tell him I don't like whisky....

My son won a happy egg but I didn't realise you had to be 16 to claim your prize so I bought him a large dark chocolate heart lollipop, obviously he ate it straight away - not even time for a pic! Also very strange that at 7 his preference is for dark chocolate, especially as this morning we had a row because he wouldn't try a cherry yogurt, he loves cherries and he loves yogurt! Boys!


One lucky entrant will also win a luxury holiday to Hotel Chocolat in St Lucia! Wow fingers tightly crossed.

Did you manage to enter the competition?  What did you win? Have you been to claim your prize yet?