Linda Barrie – Choc Affair

19 Jul

Milk shake nostalgia

19/07/2021
By Linda Barrie

The great British summer is upon us and what a week we’ve had this week – blue skies, donkey rides on the beach, and lots of ice cream cones in hands. We think the drink...

07 Jul

News

World Chocolate Day and our Colombian Supplier.

07/07/2021
By Linda Barrie

Throughout the last 20 months during the course of the Covid pandemic, we've continued to enjoy our delicious chocolate here in the Uk, but have we paused to think of the farming communities behind all our great British...

09 Jun

Family and kids, News

Why Do We Have Father’s Day?

09/06/2021
By Linda Barrie

The history of Father's Day In 1910, in Washington, USA, a lady called Sonora Smart Dodd, raised by her Dad after the death of her Mum, felt that fathers should also have a day to celebrate...

08 Jun

Dark Chocolate, News, Recipes

Dark Chocolate Cupcakes

08/06/2021
By Linda Barrie

Such a simple and classic recipe, that everyone loves, especially when they are packed full of our delicious real Colombian dark chocolate! Chocolate Cupcakes Ingredients: 100gm Self raising flour20gm Cocoa powder140gm...

04 Jun

News

Single Origin Chocolate

01/06/2021
By Linda Barrie

The word origin means the point or place where something begins, and in the case of a single origin chocolate, it means the cocoa beans are sourced from a single area, which can be a country, a region,...

27 May

News, Recipes

White Chocolate Baba Ghanouj

01/06/2021
By Linda Barrie

The bank holiday weekend has us all excited about being able to dust off the garden chairs, wheel the BBQ out of the garage and put the beers on ice. We've been looking at a traditional Middle Eastern...

25 May

Dark Chocolate, News, Recipes

It’s time to fire up the BBQ

26/05/2021
By Linda Barrie

It is the time of year where we are ready to whip the cover of our BBQ’s, usually with the best of intentions to cook up a storm on the grill and try some new recipes out.

17 May

News

Can I store my chocolate in the fridge?

25/05/2021
By Linda Barrie

The most common question that we are asked as British manufacturers of delicious confectionery is “can I store my chocolate in the fridge?” The question tends to cause a lot of light-hearted debate online, especially...

13 May

News

Is Chocolate Vegetarian?

25/05/2021
By Linda Barrie

By its very nature, chocolate comes from a plant - the Theobroma tree and in its purest form is vegetarian and even vegan. It is through the additions of other ingredients during the processing of the cocoa bean...

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