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September 2008

  1. on the move…

    Chocolala is moving premises, so we’ll be closed for a while.

    We hope that’s not too much of a disappointment, but we’re sure that (somehow) you’ll cope.

    If you’re not on it already, make sure you sign up for our e-newsletter, and we’ll let you know as soon as our gorgeous, fairtrade, fresh handmade chocolates are available again …all being well it should be sometime in the Autumn.

    If you enjoy window shopping (or have a slightly masochistic streak) you can still drool over our website …but remember that, for the moment, it’s a case of just look, no buy.

    Go well

    xx

July 2008

  1. Country Living Magazine: eat only the best chocolate

    We had a lovely piece about us in Country Living magazine at the beginning of the year. The text starts like this: My New Year resolution is to eat only the best chocolate – such as the…

  2. an 18th birthday cake for May

    This is the birthday cake I made for May’s 18th birthday. The briefing conversation included the words: outrageous, arty, gothic, memorable, wacky… and with a loose underlying midsummer…

  3. elle magazine: luxury ethical chocolates on test

    I’ve just been sorting through some stuff and have come across several things I should have mentioned here on the blog from ages ago… as usual, the posting failed to appear at the…

June 2008

  1. chocolates for salad

    Had a day out today in Clapham (North Yorkshire!) to visit a lovely organisation called Growing with Grace. They are an organic nursery, growing all sorts of salad and veg and running a veg-box scheme…

  2. chocolates are for SHARING!

    Something that I’ve been very aware since starting to make chocolates (well, since they started being reasonably nice) , is how possessive many people are about them. A box given as a gift can…

  3. chocolala in the Independent’s Ten Best Luxury chocolates

    The Independent do a regular feature called ‘The Ten Best’ (or the IndyBest… to those who know it intimately). We were really delighted to get into their Top Ten Best Luxury…

  4. fairly traded chocs for mums… and dads!

    Given it’s father’s/fathers’/fathers day tomorrow (see previous blog!) I thought I’d tell you what we did on… err… Mothering Sunday. Apparently, Mothering Sunday…

  5. fresh fairtrade fathers day chocolates (…and the case of the missing apostrope)

    It’s Fathers Day on Sunday. If you're wanting to send some chocolala chocs, get your order in ASAP. Does anyone else struggle with where to put the apostrophe in… errr… the day…

  6. Ben’s Birthday Cake

    OK, so you're still waiting for the surge of blogging… but I’ve been busy over the last couple of days, in part making a 40th birthday cake for my friend Ben. I hoped to get the cake…

  7. the choco blog buses… all coming at once (errrr maybe)

    Ho Hum, well so much for that new year’s resolution about blogging more. I will, over the next few days, try and have a little flurry of blogging activity, and endeavour to tell you at least…

January 2008

  1. Buy your Valentine’s Chocolates NOW …and find out about us sending them by ‘special delivery’ post

    Our valentine chocs are now in the chocolala shop. They’re gorgeous, inscribed with hearts and kisses or wrapped in pink foils. You can buy them now for delivery from the 9th of…

  2. the perfect small gift or present, wedding favour, welcome, thank you… whatever: the chocolala trio has arrived.

    Well, along with our regular tin and the square dozen box, we now have something new in the packaging stable. The trio is the chocolala ‘fun size’ and it is the cutest thing ever. A…

  3. Observer Food Monthly: chocolala praline comes top of its class. HOORAY

    Still catching up on last year… chocolala appeared in November’s Observer Food Monthly, and did rather well in their chocolate taste test. The adjudicator was chef and restaurateur,…

  4. valentine chocolates coming soon…

    gorgeous, sexy, delicious. Here’s a sneak…

  5. Fairtrade chocolatier in the Guardian …and the chocolala toilet tube photo challenge

    A couple of months ago we had a great article about us in the guardian. It was mainly about the ups and downs of setting up a business making fresh handmade chocolates, and becoming fairtrade…