The English Cheesecake Company are wonderful, aren't they? Ever since they sent me their cheesecake to try I haven't shut up about it (heck, I'm sure I'm still dreaming about it) and now they want you to try one too! Hurrah!After hearing that we were after chocolate goodies to give to you guys, they offered us a chocolate cheesecake as a giveaway. And you really really want to enter this contest. Because let's face it, the only thing that can make chocolate better is putting it with cake AND cheese.
They're offering the chocolate truffle "Honey I'm comb" cheesecake which has a chocolate cookie base, chocolate truffle filling and chocolate-coated honeycomb adorning the top. Isn't it pretty? It's 8" and they say it'll feed 12. Having eaten one (not all to myself, that would be silly), I reckon it'll actually feed 16. Although you might find your friends buzzing around like flies once everyone finds out you've won.
So what's the deal? Well just tell us about your best ever chocolate experience (please keep it clean). Wow us with your chocolate tales! You'll get an extra entry for re-tweeting as well (but if you do it more than once your extra entries won't count at all - we don't want you to spam your friends). You've got until 8.30pm today to get your entries to us and then we'll pop the entries into a giant hat and pick a winner. We'll announce the winner tomorrow (sorry to all our readers who've missed out on entering the contests because they don't skive during work hours).
Good luck everyone!
The small print:
1,This draw is open to UK residents only excluding employees or agents of The English Cheesecake Company or anyone professionally connected with the promotion and their immediate families. 2. No purchase necessary. 3. The prize is a 8 inch Chocolate Truffle Honey I’m Comb cheesecake. 4. This prize is non-transferable, non-refundable and there is no cash alternative. 5. The Judges' decision is final and no correspondence shall be entered into. 6. The winner will be contacted on by 12.30pm 15th October. 7. The prize will be delivered frozen, will arrive between 9am – 6pm and must be signed for on delivery.
OMG - my mouth is actually watering at that cheesecake!!
ReplyDeleteI think my best chocolate experience was eating (and this is quite sad I think) - a Ferrero Rocher for the first time!
It was the chocolate to eat (I mean the 'ambassador' spoiled everyone at his parties with them)- and my parents would get them for their dinner parties (apparently you had a lot of these in the early 80's) and I remember I was never allowed one - so I clearly remember being about 5 and staying awake for hours in my bedroom until my parents had gone to bed and sneaking down and having my first one - Heaven!! (I then tried to put the wrapper back together and stuck it back in the box - it was very lamely done and my mother spotted it - but alls well that ends well as she blamed my brother :) )
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Mmmm...best chocolate experience, i have to say would be every halloween - when you get those apples and rather than coat them in toffee, you coat them in deliciously smooth, creamy chocolate then leave to set! it gets you in a lovely chocolate mess, but theres plenty left on fingers and utensils to have a good old lick....delicious! thinking now, i'm quite glad its not long till halloween! lol
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ReplyDeleteIm going with making chocolate rice krispie cakes as a child. Getting to melt all that chocolate and then throwing the rice krispies in to mix...Ofcourse I was impossible not to get my little hands covered in chocolate. I loved licking them clean! I still remember how excited I would get everytime I would make them with my mum.
I still have a serious weakness when it comes to melted chocolate...I think thats my happiest chocolate memory ;)
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Chocolate fondue of course!
ReplyDeleteDeliciously silky dark, milk and white chocolate with a variety of dipping condiments from the classic ‘strawberry’ to the quirky ‘Haribo’.
Yummy
When my foodie brother sent us a big box of Maison du Chocolat ganaches for Christmas & me, hubby & friend scoffed the lot in one go! Spoiled me for cheap chocolate forever. Since then just call me the chocoisseur!
ReplyDeleteGoing to one of the Cambridge May Balls this year, they had two massive chocolate fountains; one with white chocolate, one with dark. They didn't stop at just strawberries and marshmallows either; they had mini chocolate brownies, grapes, and best of all pink wafers! It turns out heaven is a pink wafer dipped in melted dark chocolate.
ReplyDeleteMy best chocolate experiences were at christmas as a little girl. On christmas eve, mum would get a huge hamper out and one by one, tins of mixed chocolates and boxes of chocolates would be taken out and placed around the living room. We were only allowed a few of them during the day, but throughout the christmas period, the tantalising shiny wrappers and gorgeous smell really made my christmas lovely
ReplyDeleteIts got to be the christmas chocolates I used to get as stocking fillers. We got chocolate coins and little cartoon shaped characters in a box. The little characters were different every year. I used to really savour them because they were so unusual and had to make them last.
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ReplyDeleteI had just left Gatwick Airport with a huge Toblerone - it was an uninspired gift - and I happened to chance upon a Barclays Bank being held up. I bravely disabled the Cockney blaggers with my 'legendary triangular Swiss chocolate with honey and almond nougat' and didn't even get a thank you, never mind a reward.
ReplyDeleteThis would go some way to amending this grave injustice
Easter Sunday, I was about 6 years old, being an only child relatives were more inclined to be generous ;) I remember looking up at the shelf in the sitting room and counting 22 Easter eggs!! Wish they'd still send them to me now!! haha
ReplyDeleteHanging out with my new boyfriend (now my fiance) on New Year's day about a month after we first got together. It was just the two of us and there was no food in the flat and no shops open near by and we were too lazy to go far, so we just ate the 3 giant toblerones my gran gave me for Christmas and watched movies in our pyjamas.
ReplyDeleteI'm such a chocoholic that I have 2! One has to be a chocolate tasting event held by the Guardian's Word of Mouth blog team at their offices last Easter, where around 50 readers of the blog had to taste dozens and dozens of easter eggs on the market. It was just like Roald Dahl's stories of submitting arch comments as part of a Cadbury's focus group when he was at school. The chocolates on offer ranged from cheap supermarket own brands, to high-end recognised brands, right through to rare artisan offerings. We were shown how to examine the gloss of the chocolate, its smell, mouthfeel and of course taste-- all important markers of quality. I felt properly ill on the way home but I'll always remember that evening!
ReplyDeleteMy second happened when I was a teenager; my parents have a wealthy friend who decided to extend an invitation to eat at the Ivy to me. I ordered their famous frozen berries and white chocolate dessert, and to this day it's probably the best I've ever had! The simplicity of it was perfect: a large blue-glass plate strewn with frozen mixed berries was placed before me, and then a waiter holding a tiny copper saucepan containing a hot white chocolate sauce approached, and with great ceremony poured it over. The hot sauce melted the frozen berries slightly, which then permeated and flavoured the chocolate. Heaven!
Just because it's in theme:
ReplyDeleteMr Cadbury and Mrs Rowntree met on a coach journey,(it was After Eight). She was from Quality Street, he was a Fisherman's Friend. On the way they stopped at a Yorkie Bar, he had a Rum and Butter, she had a Wine Gum.
He asked her name. "Polo, I'm the one with the hole" she said. "I'm the one with the Nuts" he thought. Then he touched her Milky Way. They checked in the Hotel and went straight to the bedroom. Mr Cadbury turned out the light for a bit of Black Magic. It wasn't long before he slipped his hand into her Snickers and felt the contrast of her Double Decker.
He showed her his Curly Wurly. But Ms Rowntree wasn't keen as she already had a few Jelly Babies, so she let him take a trip down Bourneville Boulevard. He was pleased as he always fancied a bit of Fudge.
It was a Magic Moment as she let out a scream of Turkish Delight. When he came, his Fun Sized Mars Bar felt a bit Crunchie. She wanted more but he decided to take a Time Out. However, he noticed her Pink Wafers looked very appetizing. So he did a
Twirl and had a Picnic in her Sherbet. At the same time he gave her a Gob Stopper.
Unfortunately Mr Cadbury had to go home to his wife, Caramel. Sadly, he was soon to discover he had caught V.D. It turns out Ms Rowntree had a Box of Assorted Creams.
She had been with All Sorts.
Gotta be making a chocolate cake for the first time as a kid with my mum and I got to lick the cake mixture spoon and the chocolate icing spoon!
ReplyDeleteAnd...I still do it 20 years later!
Mmmm I love cheesecake and that one looks amazing!
ReplyDeleteMy best chocolate experience is simply tasting the warm melted chocolate they give out at Cadbury World. Delicious!
My best chocolate experience was on Christmas Day a few years ago when I opened a box of chocolates given to me from a friend.
ReplyDeleteI ate the whole box for breakfast and although I felt sick after... it was the best box of chocolates ever!!!
My best chocolate experience was getting down and dirty with the gorgeous stuff, spending a day at a friends chocolate making shop.
ReplyDeleteI had hands on experience of how to temper the chocolate,how cheap chocolate differs from the good stuff, and how to treat it properly. I had a go at making handmade Easter eggs, where the top coat of chocolate literally is smeared on by hand. I made truffles, chocolate coated marshmallow lollies and chilli choclate medallions.These were all done individually without machinery.I learnt that the environment has to be exactly right, not too hot, or the the fats start to seperate and you get bloom, and not too cold or damp. Of course, it was only right and proper to test copious amounts of it as I went along.
Many years back in the Late 80's me and my then husband had just moved into a flat and poor me was recovering after being hospitalized with a kidney infection, He worked nights as a security guard and his boss only ever came down on pay day to see him, come xmas eve his boss called and said he wouldnt be down till 10pm, this left ex hubby in a dilemma as he couldn't buy me a present at that time, so 1am xmas morning i'm awoken by ex hubby showering the bed with every chocolate bar possible!!! He had only gone and bought out the petrol staions supply! Brilliant xmas we ate quiche and mini milks in bed followed by chocolate!!!
ReplyDeleteMy best chocolate experience was making and eating chocolate cookies as a child with my Granny. We had lots of fun, made lots of mess and ate lots of chocolate!
ReplyDeleteI think it was probably unwrapping a bar of Willie's Cacao for the first time and smelling it. It doesn't taste good neat, too bitter, but the SMELL is like nothing on earth... Incredible.
ReplyDeleteMy favourite chocolate experience was when I was in hospital aftr an operation on my spine and feeling sorry for myself. My 2daughters arrived with a huge box of luxury chocolates for me and we sat around my bed eating them together and chatting. It cheered me up no end
ReplyDeleteNow thats a beautiful cheesecake!
ReplyDeleteMy best ever chocolate experience was a difficult one to pick, I was going to go with the one that was the most pleasurable from the start but changed my mind and went with the one I really wasn't sure about to start with!lol
I was making easter nests at school (yep it's that long ago!) and it said to melt a mars bar with a small amount of butter and stir in crushed shredded wheat! I have to say, shredded wheat is never going to be a favourite of mine but it makes a very realistic birds nest to put some eggs in for easter treats and it tasted really good too! So now I make these with my neices and nephews every year and everyone agrees they are really yummy! (but that cheesecake would be much much yummier I feel!)
My Aunty took me to a seafood buffet, not remembering that i hate everything seafood! While I was wandering around escaping the image of my Aunty and her friends pulling apart prawns I found a white chocolate fondue fountain! Everyone was soo obsessed with the seafood and scared of the liquid chocolate that I had it all to myself, best dinner ever!
ReplyDeletemy best choccie moment was cooking with my boys at the time 6 & 8 and sharing licking the bowls and spoons after making chocolate cake with them . that spoon tasted mmm, didn't get to put my head in the bowl as a mum had to give up that experience and live on previous memories. But seeing the chocolate covered faces pure happiness!!
ReplyDeleteWinning a bloody massive sized Kinder Egg at Easter. Sadly there wasn't a giant toy inside.
ReplyDeleteI used to play the cello. I was bad. And I was also small and the cello was big. Anyway, I joined a Saturday orchestra, where I remained in the 'junior' strings group well past my 'junior' years because I was so rubbish. The only thing that kept me going to this orchestra was CHOCOLATE. The tuck shop was the best tuck shop ever, with every chocolate bar under the sun, and best of all, it was so cheap! The shop was run by a bunch of mums, who weren't in in to make a profit, so I used to buy three chocolate bars - scoff two of them during the break and save one for later. Happy memories!
ReplyDeleteIt was Christmas time, I was about 8 years old, and it was the evening. My Mum was making dinner and my Dad wasn't home from work yet.
ReplyDeleteI spied the Christmas tree, bedecked with baubles and tinsel and all manner of decorations. Some of which were chocolate.
Fast forward 30 minutes, my Mum enters the living room to find me surrounded by foil and with chocolate all over my face. I'd eaten every last one.
I was shouted at but it was so worth it.
I think the best chocolate experience I have had is on a weekend cruise trip to The Bahamas from Florida. One night they had a Chocolate Midnight Feast and they made fresh chocolate truffles, cookies, chocolate cake, chocolate fountain with exotic fruit, oreo cookie cheesecake, chocolate baked alaska hot chocolate with rum and so much more. I have never seen anything like it. It was like having an out of body experience.
ReplyDeleteMy best chocolate experience is going to a pancake party, where the host made fillings for the pancakes by melting various chocolate bars - Mars Bar filling, Double Decker filling, Milky Way filling and so on - some of the fillings had added bananas and marshmallows...amazing!
ReplyDeleteMy best chocolate experience was going to the Cadbury's factory when I was about 8! Its always been my favourite chocolate and getting to see where it was made was amazing.
ReplyDeleteMy best, or should I say most memorable chocolate experience was a few years ago whilst on holiday in florida. We had just eaten at a steak house, and if i'm being honest I was already quite full. However we were then shown the most amazing and largest chocolate cheesecake I had ever seen. Obviously I had to a have a piece, which was about the size of a small country!, It was the most gorgeous thing I had ever tasted so I tried eating as much as I could, but had to have the rest boxed up for me to take back to my hotel as I felt ill.. anyway I ended up being sick (sorry!!!) You would hope that I would have learned my lesson and repented about my gluttony! however that merely cleared the way for me to then continue to demolish the rest of my cake and my boyfriends!!! I still have sweet dreams about that cake!!!
ReplyDeleteMy best chocolate experience was Chocolate Fudge Cake at Fatty Arbuckles in Poole, Dorset. We used to go there every week for this - it was soo yummy! Unfortunately, they closed down a few years ago now so I've had to get my fix elsewhere ...
ReplyDeleteMy best chocolate experience doesn't involve fancy posh chocolates, but humble Star Bars, Snickers and Picnics (remember those?)
ReplyDeleteIn August 2008 I (and three friends) walked Hadrian's Wall in just four days for the Queen's Guide Award. As it's 84 miles long, we we walking between 15 and 25 miles a day and, as it gets pretty mountainous in the middle (ok, maybe baby moutains... or giant hills!), it was quite tough going.
What was the fuel for this trip? Yep, chocolate. I'm a huge chocoholic at the best of times but I'm proud to say chocolate got me from one end of the Wall to another. I have a bit of a wheat intolerance (which in no way will prevent me from enjoying cheesecake I assure you!) so at the time was having wheat free bread, which, as anyone who is familiar with it will know, crumbles at the drop of a hat. Not a good thing to pack in a rucksack! So, Star Bars, Snickers and Picnics (and the odd Kendal Mint Cake) got me through the longest walk I have ever done.
Not only did chocolate do me proud, but I got to eat it in the middle of gorgeous scenery. And when I go to St James's Palace next month to get my award, I may just celebrate with a Star Bar!
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I have had many chocolate experiences, each tasty and magical in their own way, but nothing compares to my first sight of that cheesecake picture on this page! I can't get it out of my mind! I can almost taste it! Never have I seen such a vision in chocolatey yummyness! It is a moment that will stay with me for a very long time as I imagine sinking my teeth into that sheer delight!
ReplyDeleteSometimes fantasy is better than reality, but in this case reality would win hands down!
When I was young we used to visit a nearby seaside town where there was this lovely wee cafe and gift shop we would always have lunch in. It served the most wonderful homemade hot chcolate fudge cake with sat in a bowl of chocolate sauce with cream or ice cream. Absolute heaven! We would race through our toasties and soup just to get to dessert! Every chocolate cake I've eaten afterwards has been compared to that one, it's the benchmark, and few have ever came up to it. That cheesecake looks like it might though!
ReplyDeleteI know it's sad but my best choccie experience was the first time my boyfriend came home with a wispa he got out of the vending machine at work just because he knew I had, had a bad day & giving me a wispa would cheer me up. :) So, if I won that cheesecake then I would give it to my lovely man to say thanks for all the times he has come home with chocolate to cheer me up (and maybe I will sneek a bite myself!)
ReplyDeletemy best choolate experience was when we gave my eldest (now three) jaffa cake for the first time. We were sitting having our picnic watching Daddy play cricket. He kept pointing and moaning at the jaffa cakes. So I gave him one to try. for those who think there isn't much choc on a jaffa cake just give one to a little one and see how far it goes, hans, facee and clothes, just in time for Daddy to see too. :)
ReplyDeleteIt has to be my first trip to Australia to visit my young son when he introduced me to the unique staple of the Pacific rim, Cherry Ripe. Try it once and your hooked for life!
ReplyDeleteI always used to see myself as more a savoury rather than sweet person. Whereas my hubby would travel far for a good quality chocolate.
ReplyDeleteI remained aloof, that is until I discovered Montezumas chocolates - UK organic chocolatier which puts together these amazing flavours and tastes.
I fell in love. Now, no matter what type of celebration it is, brithday, wedding anniversary, Christmas, Easter, New Year, Friday, Saturday, Sunday - I make sure I get hubby to buy me some Montezumas chocolates. (They have a shop in Spitalfields close to his work) They do a variety of different flavours and combinations, but to be fair, because of the divine quality of their ingredients, you literally need only one block to send you into heavenly taste bliss.
I recommended them to a friend who wanted wedding favours. She reported back great success as they were helpful anda the chocs were divine. The guests loved it.
I would highly recommend trying out their goods - plus, they are also online so you can send yourself a gift - from me to me!
My best (and probably my worst if you are talking in terms of self respect!)was when I snuck into the kitchen in the black of night when I was about 10.
ReplyDeleteI liked hot chocolate but wasn't convinced it was worth adding the milk, so I had a big dessert spoon full of dry chocolate powder straight from the tub. I still do this now, but have learnt not to inhale - as my parents came downstairs that fateful day to find a light dusting of hot chocolate powder on every surface!
It is yummy though!
Spending a long Sunday afternoon with my best friend baking a triple-choc, dark and gooey chocolate bombe cake (complete with decorative maltesers and white chocolate shavings)to welcome my housemate back from travelling - eating bits and bobs as we went along, of course.
ReplyDeleteAfter 6 months of wet rice the traveller LOVED it. We demolished most of the cake before we could take no more, and left the rest in the fridge for breakfast (natch!). Eagerly looking forward to my chocolatey treat the next morning, I opened the fridge to find that IT HAD DISAPPEARED. To this day we have never found out who gobbled up that slice of divine chocolatey deliciousness, and nobody ever owned up. Although I am not a sleepwalker but I wouldn't put it past me to be the guilty party... but I guess we'll never find out!
I go to Vienna for a conference each year and both come from then. One is going to the Manner chocolate factory each year to buy Mozart balls (chocolate truffle surrounded my marzipan and more chocolate). Its a bit out of the city but as you get nearer on tram you can smell the chocolate. It starts as a hint then becomes like inhaling very rich hot chocolate. To heighten the experience you got past the factory complete with tall shiny silver chimneys and tubes (which make me think of Willy Wonka). The Mozart balls in the factory shop may be misshapen or not have labels on but they're far cheaper. The store has lots of different varieties of chocolate in and my friends always wonder what I'll come home with each year.
ReplyDeleteTwelve years old, christmas time, hiding from my family under the bed in the spare room with nothing but a torchlight, a book and a big bar of dairy milk. No idea why I thought I had to go UNDER the bed, I was quite a strange child.
ReplyDeleteOr the first time my flatmate introduced me to Green & Blacks Vanilla white chocolate, what a beautiful moment that led to far, far too many beautiful moments in the following months!
That incredible looking cheesecake reminds me of a nice surprise...
ReplyDeleteAfter carrying bags of vegetables from the supermarket to a friends house and then slaving over a roast for no less than 14 people, my good friend brought out a mouthwatering spectacle of a raspberry cheesecake with gorgeous white chocolate drizzled pieces on top, that she'd made. It was the perfect way to end a roast dinner on a Sunday amongst friends.
Here's a picture: http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d178/spannieka/cheesecake.jpg?t=1255522271
MmmmmMmm.
Another chocolate-cheesecake heavenly experience would be much appreciated :).
my best chocolate experience was making a chocolate crunch cake with my dad as a kid!! It was the first time he had let me help him cook and after that there was no stopping me!!
ReplyDeleteWhen we were young my friend and I used to buy a bar of Cadbury's and a bottle of coke, whe would open the chocolate and put it on the top of the parkray coal fire, (The outside of it, not on the coal), when the chocolate was melted we would eat it with our fingers. We were 10 at the time, that was 40 years ago, but I will always remember it.
ReplyDeleteMmmm! That looks so yummy! I am a real chocoholic, especially dark chocolate. However, my best chocolate experience was when I was pregnant. The advice at the time had been for pregnant women to avoid peanuts. But that changed mid-way through my pregnancy. I remember reading it in the newspaper, rushing (oops, I mean waddling!) out to the shops. I bought one of those giant sized Snickers and devoured it on the way home! The best I've ever had. From then on, I though for the sake of my unborn child, it was probably best if I built up her tolerance to peanuts. The least I could do was to eat a Snickers a day!! :)
ReplyDeleteI don't think I've ever had a bad chocolate eating experience to be honest. But the favourite one in recent memory has to be the first time I dared to try a small square of Dairy Milk following my gastric bypass surgery (clearly not enough bad eating experiences full-stop!). I had my surgery in November last year and after months of being sick and unable to eat, realising that I could in fact melt a piece of chocolate on my tongue again went a long way to making me feel 'normal' again. While I couldn't devour the whole cheesecake - shame - I could share it with friends and enjoy my slice like a 'normal' person (who is 7 stone lighter than she was a year ago!)
ReplyDeleteAh my happy choccie memory coincides with my first kiss. When I was 6 years old my 'boyfriend' planted a big sloppy kiss on my cheek, i turned to look at him and saw he had chocolate ALL round his face which caused me to run away crying and hide under a table until my mum bribed me with a packet of chocolate buttons to come out!
ReplyDeleteOMG I thought I'd died and gone to heaven when I saw that cheesecake, especially as the topping is what I wanted on the chocolate pizza!
ReplyDeleteI think my fave choc experience was the 1st time I was introduced to warm chocolate brownies with vanilla icecream - I think it's the mix of hot & cold that works so well and now I am very boring if we eat out - if they're on the menu, that's what I have.
The only place (& most expensive) that disappointed me was Bank in Birmingham - they put effing nuts in them(no mention on menu!) and they "felt" stale. One bad batch wasn't enough to put me off tho :)
Excuse while I go drool over that photo for awhile :)
I think my best ever chocolate experience could be yet to come by the look of your Honey im comb cheesecake, so im keeping my fingers crossed that I can update this soon!
ReplyDeleteTo date my best chocolate experience is a chocolate toberone and strawberry fondue in a steak restaurant in the Canadian Rockies shared with 16 friends - it will never be forgotten!
Pictures might speak louder than words in this case. We had spent all morning creating a chocolate-themed floor picnic for our friends' birthday, dressing as Stepford Wives to do so. We had homemade after-eight mint cakes, chocolate cupcakes, big chocolate cakes, chocolate fingers fashioned into teepees and chocolate buttons sprinkled over more or less everything! http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v285/plushy/DSC00002.jpg
ReplyDeleteI can only eat chocolate in very small, infrequent doses after eating far too many coconut Boosts as a teenager - other people go off cider in their teens, I put myself off chocolate for ever.
ReplyDeleteLast week I was on honeymoon in Vancouver and my hotel (Sutton Place) has a $27 all you can eat chocolate buffet brunch every week served from Thursday to Sunday - the thought of which made me feel quite ill, and grateful that I wasn't staying there over the weekend.
So my best chocolate experience has been learning moderation, and respect for the good stuff. I'm sure my husband would help me with this cheesecake, too - it's his all-time favourite dessert.
It may not be the best quality chocolate I've ever had, but the most memorable was an easter egg I had when I was 11. I was used to the same sort of eggs you see now - Cadbury bars etc, but this was my first introduction to slightly more grown up chocolate. It was a Thorntons egg, only instead of being egg shaped, it was formed into a birds nest, with individually wrapped eggs sitting inside, and a fluffy fabric bird sat guarding the eggs. It's over 20 years ago, but i still rmember being amazed by the nest, and saving it for weeks before I finally succumbed and ate it - something I'd never done before!
ReplyDeleteI was given a fantastic boozy Hotel chocolat egg last easter, and it was amazing, but still didn't quite beat my bird's nest!
Oh my good lord, that cake looks amazing!
ReplyDeleteMy best chocolate experience was when i was travelling around Argentina and we got to Calafate where there are lots of glaciers so it's fairly cold.
We went to a cafe and I ordered a hot chocolate BUT instead of the usual hot chocolate, I go a cup of melted chocolate with a bit of cream on top, it was like drinking a chocolate fondue! So amazing, especially with the glacier views in front of me.
I have just started a very strict diet (must get back to a size 12) but I would break the diet for one day only just to eat that cake YUM!
Best chocolate experience was when my sister and I were frozen, sodden, lost and very, very scared on top of a mountain in the Lake District. We had the whistle and space blanket but didn't fancy our chances of sitting it out and waiting to be rescued.
ReplyDeleteAs my sister fished about in her rucksack for said space blanket her fingers closed on a forgotten slab of Milky Bar.
Yes, I know it's for kids (and could scarcely pass for chocolate in some high-cocoa-content-circles). But comfort food was exactly what the doctor ordered at that moment.
I hauled out the last dregs of thermos coffee and we experimented with stuffing a few squares of choccy in our mouths and swooshing the coffee over them, producing a warm, soothing, cappucino-like liquid. Heaven!
Experienced mountaineers might have rationed it but we bolted the lot. And it was only when we'd finished that we realised the rain had stopped.
Even better, a group of walkers were heading out of the gloom and in our direction; we'd be able to ask the route down.
There are not many problems that a bar of chocolate can't fix...even if finding a bar of Toblerone would have made the story perfect (and answered that age-old question about who actually eats the stuff you see on sale at every airport!)
Chocolate fondue, a roaring fire and a proposal.....followed by malterers!
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ReplyDeleteMy fondest chocolate based memory was spending a long summer at my Grandmas. Her next door neighbour used to make the most amazing smelling chocolate cakes, leave them to cool on her kitchen windowsil, and never let us kids have any (mean).
ReplyDeleteOne morning we spent hours formulating a plan of how to get an ourselves a bit of this chocolate goodness. In the end we decided on the simple, yet effetive, 'knock door run' tatic. Being the eldest i volunteered my youngest sister to carry out the knocking task whilst me and my brother stole the cooling chocolate cake and legged it down the garden
Not knowing what to do next we hid in the pig barn, with the pigs. We then realised we coulnd't leave the cake in there as the pigs would eat it so we had no choice but to munch our way through the whole cake until it was gone....then hid the plate under some pig poo.
nom.
@claremaher1
My best chocolate experience was actually a cooking mistake!
ReplyDeleteI tried making some rocky road squares - followed the recipe and everything! but somehow it didn't set, buy the newly named 'Rocky Road mess' was the most squidgy chocolatey delicious mistake ever!!!
yum!
Best chocolate moment for me involved a humble Mars bar - My hubbie and I had decided to climb Skiddaw in The Lake District and had set off in glorious autumn weather. We were about 2/3rd's of the way up when the weather closed in and it started to snow!!. We decided to carry on as we were well prepared and we eventually reached the summit in a freezing gale with pellets of rock hard snow pelting down. We sat in the shelter on the summit and got out our Mars bars which had frozen solid! but boy did they hit the spot. On cue, as we sat there, the weather cleared as quickly as it had closed in and we were treated to a fabulous view over Keswick and Derwent water - truly memorable.
ReplyDeletemy best chocolate experience was when i was young naad running around my grandparents garden at easter looking fro chocolate eggs with alittle wicker basket then repeating it years later with my own little ones
ReplyDeletethat cheesecake looks devine
@lindac123
My most memorable best every chocolate experience was probably when my nan taught me how to make triple chocolate fudge cake and I got to lick the bowl out.
ReplyDeleteBest chocolate experience was cooking chocolate orange cupcakes with my 2 1/2 year old daughter Lottie for the first time - she absolutely loved it. It was my idea to cook cakes together so that I could spend some time with her after the birth of my second daughter, so that Lottie and I would have some special time together without the newborn around. I made sure all the ingredients were pre measured in separate bowls so she could pour them in to the mixing bowl, we had great fun stirring and mixing and it was a great bonding experience. She was brilliant at putting the cake cases in the tins and we had such a giggle spooning the mixture in to the cases, mostly getting it right! Her face was a picture when we took the cakes out of the oven - she was so pleased with herself and after they cooled down we decorated with chocolate orange frosting and maltesers! We now regularly make cakes and it's our 'thing' that we do together - Daddy and her baby sister are not invited (only to taste them when they are done!)
ReplyDeleteMy best chocolate experience was at Sloanne Square chocolatiers,Myself and my daughter spent the day tasting making and learning interesting facts about chocolate,We was in heaven with watching the process od good chocolate being made.!
ReplyDeleteThe whole day was delightful.
Best cheesecake for me has been in New York recently. Purchased from a stall in Grand Central station. Lovely crisp base and the most heavenly cream cheese and fruit topping. Yum!
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