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Our next full day Chocolatier Basic Skills course is scheduled for Sunday 11th October.During the day you will learn to🍫...
19/09/2026

Our next full day Chocolatier Basic Skills course is scheduled for Sunday 11th October.
During the day you will learn to
🍫 temper chocolate
🍫 make ganaches
🍫 produce truffles
🍫 create moulded chocolates

We provide everything you need (including lunch), and you get to take lots of your creations away with you at the end of the day.
These are always great fun, and you are sure to learn lots!
Two spaces are still available, book online or in-store now.

It's madness, sheer madness.My FB and Insta feeds are full of adverts for Advent Calendars 😮 (yes, I follow quite a lot ...
17/09/2026

It's madness, sheer madness.
My FB and Insta feeds are full of adverts for Advent Calendars 😮 (yes, I follow quite a lot of chocolatiers).
I refuse to put mine up on the website yet because it's mid September. Apparently this means I'm behind the times because the supermarkets seem to have Christmas aisles already. But come on, we haven't had bonfire night, we haven't had Halloween, the kids are barely back at school.
Anyway, the point of this is, if you are in the market for an Advent Calendar this year, please be patient. We will be doing one, and it will be just as special as usual. I just refuse to put them on the website over 2 months in advance.

Let's get summery, with our August limited edition flavour. A fresh strawberry pate de fruit paired with a white chocola...
25/08/2026

Let's get summery, with our August limited edition flavour. A fresh strawberry pate de fruit paired with a white chocolate elderflower ganache, shelled in milk chocolate.
These are decorated with a red and yellow sunburst design that is very deco.
Available now in-store and online in our Custom selections.

We have a new flavour in the Liquorice Bar...We can't get hold of the Liquorice Moons anymore, so I have replaced them w...
08/08/2026

We have a new flavour in the Liquorice Bar...

We can't get hold of the Liquorice Moons anymore, so I have replaced them with Liquorice Fruit Duos. These are half liquorice, half like a fruity wine gum and all delicious.

The team gave them a taste test today and they got a resounding thumbs up 👍👍👍

Available now in-store and online.

Our Plant Based or Vegan Selection box has had a revamp 😀This selection has always been somewhat neglected, with fewer f...
07/07/2026

Our Plant Based or Vegan Selection box has had a revamp 😀
This selection has always been somewhat neglected, with fewer flavours than our other selections, and with a sleeve that lacked a central image.
Well no longer... thanks to our talented friend .brockhurst aka Pearly Cat Design, we now have a swirl of colourful cocoa pods decorating the box.
And we have made Biscoff Cups and Pear and Vanilla permanent additions to the selection, so there are now 4 flavours in both the 6 piece and 12 piece selections.
Available now in-store and online

It's another hot weather project - our website has had a bit of a refresh.It's still as easy to use as ever, but it now ...
29/06/2026

It's another hot weather project - our website has had a bit of a refresh.
It's still as easy to use as ever, but it now has a colour scheme that matches the distinctive paintwork of our shop.
I have also done a bit of a tidy up on the products in the shop, and updated the reviews we show on the homepage.
I'm rather pleased with it 😀

The hot weather means I have time to get a few tasks finished which have been waiting for a while.Including finally addi...
25/06/2026

The hot weather means I have time to get a few tasks finished which have been waiting for a while.
Including finally adding our liquorice selection to the website.... yay!
You no longer need to visit our Hastings shop to enjoy the delights of The Liquorice Bar. You can mix and match your flavours, just like you can in-store, and can either get them in a bag, or in a ballotin if you want a more "gifty" presentation.
It's liquorice heaven!

It's too hot to make chocolates, so the team are Working From Home. Which means a few bits and pieces that have been pen...
24/06/2026

It's too hot to make chocolates, so the team are Working From Home. Which means a few bits and pieces that have been pending for a while will now start cropping up, starting with a new blog post (for the first time in an embarrassingly long time!).

Find out more about why chocolate work and hot weather don't mix... link in the first comment.

We have some competition winners for our design a limited edition contest to celebrate our first birthday on High Street...
22/06/2026

We have some competition winners for our design a limited edition contest to celebrate our first birthday on High Street.

Our winning adult entry is Sticky Toffee Pudding. Why did I choose it... well I narrowed the entries down to a shortlist of 5 or 6 flavours then ran them past the team. This was the the option that had every single member of the team excited. And I figure if the team are excited by it, then our customers will be too!

I did modify the concept slightly. The original idea was for it to be an enrobed square piece rather than a moulded one. But I thought making it in a cup shaped mould would make it look like an individual sticky toffee pudding.

So we have a layer of caramel sauce and a layer of sticky toffee pudding milk chocolate ganache, all in a milk chocolate shell, and decorated with golden lustre dust in an attempt to represent custard. Having tried a reject piece I can confirm these really are very nice indeed!

Our winning child entry is Apple and Peanut. Why did I choose it... well I liked the contrast in flavour and texture that would be achieved by a fruity pate de fruit layer and a nutty praline layer. And it introduced me to a flavour combination that I hadn't come across before. I though apple and peanut sounded a bit odd when the entry came in, but when I googled it I found that dipping slices of apple in peanut butter is a thing. A quick taste test showed that it worked. Who'd have thought it.... well apparently our winner did!

I did modify the concept slightly. The original idea was for it to be a milk chocolate, but I thought a sweet dark would work better, plus with a praline and a pate de fruit in the piece as well it meant it would be be vegan if dark. Plus our victorious adult entry was a milk chocolate and I wanted one milk winner and one dark one.

So we have an apple pate de fruit layer and a peanut and dark chocolate praline layer. All enrobed in a 55% dark chocolate, and decorated with roasted peanut.

Both flavours are made, but probably won't be in the fridge until the end of the week due to the hot weather. They are available online now in Custom boxes, but won't be shipped yet for the same reason.

One of our competition winners' creations in progress...All will be revealed in the next couple of days!!
18/06/2026

One of our competition winners' creations in progress...

All will be revealed in the next couple of days!!

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45 High Street
Hastings
TN343EN

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Tuesday 10:30am - 4pm
Wednesday 10:30am - 4pm
Thursday 10:30am - 4pm
Friday 10:30am - 4pm
Saturday 10:30am - 4pm
Sunday 11:30am - 5pm

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