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The Cocoa Corner – Chocolate Blog & Recipes
Welcome to The Cocoa Corner, your source for chocolate inspiration! Discover delicious chocolate recipes, expert baking tips, and behind-the-scenes stories from our York chocolate kitchen. Learn about ethical chocolate making, The Chocolate Dream initiative, and get creative with chocolate in new and exciting ways.
What You’ll Find Here
- Easy chocolate recipes for home bakers
- Expert tips for working with chocolate
- Stories from our sustainable cocoa journey
- Seasonal chocolate ideas and inspiration
- The latest chocolate news and trends
Pig & Pastry’s Delicious Jaffa Cakes
We love baking with our chocolate and so does our York's Pig & Pastry! They've very kindly baked us a wonderful batch of Jaffa Cakes using our delicious Milk Orange Chocolate and also given us the recipe to share with you guys.
Festive Gift Ideas for Her
Too many years of pyjama sets, fluffy socks and fuzzy slippers have dented our element of surprise... this year is going to be different! We've got tonnes of fabulous chocolate products, guaranteed to make those ladies smile.
Here’s our top 5 gifts for...
Festive Gift Ideas for Him
Don't threat, as we've got the perfect gift idea to fill in the stockings for him this christmas, which is guaranteed to make them smile.
The place to be this Halloween!
The city of York has more to offer than just our mouth-watering chocolate, it’s also known for its art galleries, architecture, museums, shopping, theatre productions, flawless food and drink venues and ghosts. That’s right, you read correctly, ghosts!
With it being...
Things are getting spookier by the second
With just under 2 weeks to go until Halloween, people are going crazy for our terrifying treats!
Our top 5 fun Halloween crafts
Getting creative this Halloween couldn't be easier! Every October without fail we leave all the Halloween decorations until last minute.
Chocolate & Wine Dinner at the York Food & Drink Festival
On Saturday, we joined Walmgate Ale House & Bistro and The Wine Chapter for a luxurious chocolate & wine dinner for York Food & Drink Festival and we must say, it couldn't of been a more fabulous evening!
Around 7pm our guests all arrived and were seated upstairs in the "Attic"...
Peppermint Fondant Recipe
Dive into the deliciousness head first people, our gorgeous Peppermint Fondant recipe is here just in time for October! This recipe is perfect for those dinner parties when you need a grande finale to the evening - in appearance and taste.
Our top 5 Autumn treats!
It's around this time when the weather starts getting chilly, the days get shorter and we see more gloomy days then sunny.