NB:This is a product review and I got the product for free.
I love getting presents. Even if I know it’s not really a present as such but is sent by some marketing person wanting me to do a product review. Doesn’t matter! There is still the juvenile excitement when the parcel arrives and the pleasure of unwrapping.
Thank you,marketing people from Hotel Chocolate for sending me a free The Serious Dark Fix –An Egg for the Dark Chocolate Lover (£24) . How did they know that I love dark chocolate?!? (ok they asked me before,just as well as I would not have been very thrilled with milk chocolate I tell you that much!).
Basically,in my ‘I got a present’frenzy,I had unwrapped and eaten half of the egg before I could take any pictures. Will I ever be asked to do a product review again I wonder?
But here it is,an egg of beautiful thick dark chocolate filled with an array of different pralines.
My absolute favourite were not the pralines but the gorgeously dark and scrumptious chocolate egg shell with little crunchy cocoa bits. To be honest,that’s the way I like my chocolate without fuss and without fancy additions.
Even though the pralines making up the egg yolk were rather nice,they did not quite reach the standard of the shell in my opinion. The 5 second chili and the Single Malt Smoothie were my favourites though:chocolate,chili and whiskey –what more does a girl need?
It wouldn’t be me if I didn’t find something to criticize. In thought the chocolates were far too big. Twice as many with half the size would have been so much better.
I give the Serioulsy Dark Fix my thumbs up,in fact I give Hotel Chocolat my thumbs up. Firstly because you almost always get a little chocolate to try when you enter the store (I remember some rather sad occasion when I entered Hotel Chocolate 4 times during one shopping afternoon to get a free praline,I think they started to recognize me in the end,but they still gave me chocolate,lovely people they are) and secondly because they are full of cute ideas. What other shop sells Dark Chocolate Eggs and Soldiers? I think they should have sent me the Dark Chocolate Ostrich Egg though. Weighs 1.4 kilos –that’s a hell of a lot of chocolate!
You can enter their competition on facebook to wina ‘Be Pampered Chocolate Hamper’–Good Luck!
Nice egg! I adore Hotel Chocolat and a freebie makes it even better
@ Catty –I know,they are lovely these Hotel Chocolat people,I take their freebies any time
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