3 hours Ago By The Guardian
It’s Easter and this seems the right time to be talking about Christmas. Only joking! I’ll not be eating very much chocolate today because, see past columns and just how much Easter chocolate I have tested. My big weakness at the moment is Luisa’s Sicilian Orange.
Although for Easter this came in a flat egg or bunny shape (both were £10.50), it’s the bijou bar I really love, £5.25.
It’s made using 75% cocoa chocolate (I would actually love it if Luisa went even higher in this), but with studs of candied Sicilian orange peel throughout. It’s the perfect mix. I tuck a little bar of this in my bag when I go travelling to keep me company and I know that, at 50g for the whole bar – the pieces are pleasingly chunky, it will last me two days.
I do wish she’d do this in a bigger bar, but then it would spoil the mini-magic. I also enjoyed Eponine ’s Floral Fondant Creams, £20 for a box of 16. Rose and violet creams seem to be enjoying a bit of a renaissance and these are in a bonbon shape, dark chocolate-coated (milk chocolate would be all shades of wrong here) and the centres are gooey raspberry with rose, and blackcurrant with violet to give a nice sharp zing to the comforting embrace of the violet and rose.
These are lovely for a spring birthday. (They do contain food colouring so be careful if you are sensitive to this.) Also, for a post-Easter treat do check out Fiona Pâtissière ’s gorgeous gourmet boxes, from £9.
25. Look at Fiona’s Insta for latest flavours, but there’s usually something caramel-ly and deliciously nutty, all covered in excellent chocolate and every piece handmade..
