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Christmas Gifts: Sweet Treats

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Sweet treats are always great stocking fillers at Christmas as well as something naughty to have on the table at Christmas time. We’ve selected our favourite festive sweet treats that’s bound to bring joy to anyone this Winter.

Mr Stanley’s Confectionary.

We were most impressed with their traditional and elegant packaging. Mr Stanley’s confectionary pays homage to an old era of confectioners and we think that anyone with an appreciation for sweeties will love a gift from Mr Stanley’s. Great for stocking fillers or as a good selection for your Christmas table, our favourites from the Christmas collection were;
Mini Candy Canes – £3 I love to use these to decorate the tree or stick on the front of Christmas cards.
Festive Fudge Selection – £3.99 Rich and buttery, Mr Stanley’s covered all of the festive flavours with Christmas pudding fudge, Salted caramel fudge, Mincemeat butter fudge, Christmas spice with orange fudge to choose from.
White Chocolate Matches with Popping Candy – £6.99 We love this luxurious and delicious candy and the extra pop made it all the more fun. And if it’s milk or dark chocolate you prefer than Mr Stanley have got an assortment of chocolate matches to suit you.
These were just a selection of our favourites but be sure to check out their full range online which includes traditional sweets, liquorice and candy, sweet jars and biscuits.

mrstanleys.co.uk


Divine Chocolate

Divine Chocolate are proud of where their chocolate comes from. They are the only Fairtrade chocolate company co-owned by cocoa farmers and this Christmas, they are launching a new range of chocolate gifts to send and share with loved ones. Spoil someone this year with their New Divine Luxury Collection RRP £8 which includes 16 dusted truffles encased in 70% dark chocolate. Or how about their new thins to add to their dark chocolate mint thins and dark chocolate ginger thins, this year they have Dark Chocolate Salted Caramel Thins RRP £4. For something completely festive, why not try a bar to share in limited edition flavours Milk Chocolate with spiced cookies or Dark Chocolate with cranberries and hazelnuts both RRP at £2.40. By supporting Divine Chocolate and choosing their range of delicious gifts, the co-ownership with the farmers ensures that they receive a share of the profits and enables them to gain a greater insight of their industry. All of the products mentioned are available to buy in Waitrose and Oxfam but to check out more of their range visit

divinechocolate.com

Cutter and Squidge

Need something sweet for your Christmas afters this year, Cutter and Squidge the Soho based bakery have a lovely range of products including their famous Biskies and Dream Cakes to suit anyone with a sweet tooth. Their focus on natural premium ingredients will make sure anything you try is made with extra love and care and the Festive Collection is no different with it being free from preservatives and additives and handmade from scratch. All products apart from the cakes can be shipped nationwide with the exception of the Vegan Chocolate Fudge Cake which is available to be shipped anywhere in the UK. We recommend you try a Festive Biskie Box which you can choose between Coconut Melted Snowman Biskie, Black Forest Biskie, Gingerbread Man Biskie and Christmas Wreath Biskie. The attention to detail and quality will just blow you away. If you’re looking for something a little more substantial, why not try a bespoke hamper which are packed full of tempting and delicious goodies and range from £75-£250. Check out their huge and impressive range at

cutterandsquidge.com

Two Divine Chocolate Gift Packs To Giveaway

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Chocolate, what does it mean to you? Does the very word tantalize your taste buds? Is it what your heart most desires? Well, Divine Chocolate has all this and more to offer you. Made with the finest quality Fairtrade cocoa beans from Ghana, this outrageously delicious chocolate is a real taste sensation and you’ll have a chance to experience it like never before with the start of the nation’s favourite week – Chocolate Week.

 

From Monday 14th October to Sunday 20th October, this Chocolate Week Divine is giving you the chance to sample a selection of new recipes made exclusively by Divine’s finest chocolatiers. Not only are their products utterly scrumptious, but unlike other Fairtrade products Divine Chocolate is 45% owned by the farmers in Ghana who supply its cocoa. Voted Observer Best Ethical Business, Best Social Enterprise and collecting two awards at the Great Taste Awards (Guild of Fine Food), Divine’s products are a unique blend of quality mixed with corporate responsibility.

Divine chocolate giveaway. Competition                                                              

As proud sponsors of this sweet week, Divine promises it will be bigger and better than ever, with chocolate-themed events occurring in countless shops, hotels, and restaurants all throughout the country.

 

To find out more about Divine delicious range, visit www.divinechocolate.com

 

Divine is offering you an opportunity to win a Divine Chocolate gift pack full of their most scrumptious treats!

For a chance to win, simply answer the following question:

 

When does Chocolate Week run?

A.      25th– 1st December

B.      14th – 20th October

C.      8th– 14th July

Send your answer along with your name and email address to frostmagazine@gmail.com

Good luck!

Win a fabulous Divine Christmas Hamper

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Have a Delicious Christmas with Divine!

Whether its hanging from your Christmas tree or hiding underneath, it’s that time of year again where chocolate is never too far from our fingertips!

8 out of 10 of us admit we indulge in our favourite chocolate treat each week, making us a nation of self-confessed chocolate lovers. And since it’s the one time of year we don’t have to feel guilty about eating it Divine have introduced scrumptious new fair-trade products to satisfy our chocolate cravings this festive season; whether it be after dinner ginger thins, Christmas coins and trees made with their critical acclaimed dark chocolate.

 

Divine is the only Fair-trade chocolate company which is 45% owned by the very coco farmers who pick the beans in Ghana. So you can be sure your chocolate is not only seriously scrumptious but responsibly and fairly sourced too.

 

Why not be in with a chance to win a fabulous Divine Christmas hamper for your loved ones (or yourself!) which includes 3 chocolate Divine Christmas trees in milk, dark and white chocolate, 2 bars of luxurious Divine chocolate, Ginger Thins, Mint Thins and Christmas coins!

 

To find out more information visit the website: www.divinechocolate.com

 

To win the Divine Christmas-themed chocolate hamper please follow Frost on twitter, @Frostmag and answer this question:
Which country are Divine Chocolate cocoa beans grown?
a) Ghana
b) Nigeria
c) Lapland


 

The World’s First Chocolatiers’ Convention. What’s Hot in Chocolate

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Frost recently got a golden ticket to The World’s First Chocolatiers’ Convention, and yes, we were just as excited as the kids in the Wille Wonka film. The convention was organised by Kennedy’s Confection Magazine and we heard the best and most impressive chocolate makers talk. A.Boyd Tunnock was a particular favourite. I had a good chat with Boyd who invented the Tunnock tea cake in 1960. He is as nice as he is brilliant.

Here are my highlights.

Pekka Rantala, managzing director of OY Karl Fazer, talked about Fazer becoming a €1.6 billion company. Fazer have teamed up with Angry Birds to make some really cool Angry Birds sweets. Okay, they are not chocolate but they are bang on trend. Check out the cool video below.

Next up was Peter Meadows from California Raisins. Peter says that raisins are just dried out grapes. The grapes are picked and layed out to dry. They are harvested in late August and there is a two-to-three week drying process. Raisins are 1 £500 million industry. In Tesco raisins are the second biggest bagged snack after Maltesers.

A. Boyd Tunnock CBE is the grandson of the founder and the inventor of the Tunnock Tea Cake. Tunnock’s was started in 1890 by Thomas Tunnock. They expanded in the 1950’s. Tunnock’s makes 9 million biscuits a week at their Uddingston factory and Boyd says, ‘When success comes you have no idea how, you just keep going.’

Boyd’s eldest gandson, Colin, works for Cadbury. Boyd says that he has a toy store compared to them but he is happy with it.

9 out of 10 people eat chocolate.

Sophi Tranchell MBE, managing director of farmer-owned Divine Chocolate. Average income for a cocoa farmer is £328 per year. 80% of the chocolate industry is owned by three companies. When a survey was done in West Africa only one child out of 250 wanted to be a cocoa farmer. Divine Chocolate are impressive. They aim to improve the livelihood of cocoa farmers in West Africa. Chocolate for those who want to buy ethically.

Francisco Redruello is a senior food analyst and had some great information and Willie Harcourt-Cooze. Willie is a well known chocolate maker and entrepreanur who came to fame in Channel 4 documentary Willie’s Wonky Chocolate Factory. We tried some of his chocolate and it is good.

Body language expert Judi James then turned the lights on and gave us all chocolate. She gave an excellent talk on chocolate and body language and then said what our chocolate eating habits meant. Judi says we only share chocolate to make ourselves look good, but I don’t believe her. Do you?

Predictions in the chocolate industry from Angus Kennedy.

Personalisation of the product.
Bolder tastes like cheese & wine, pumpkin, chilli, olive oil, bacon and carrot.
More indulgence. Chocolate with an indulgent appeal.
Smaller packets. As the recession kicks in, packs get smaller but stay the same price.
Sharing. 56% of people like to share.
Healthier chocolate. For people who are lactose intolerant for example. Did you know that 90% of people in Africa are lactose intolerant and 70% in United Kingdom and 20% in all of Europe.