In celebration of Chocolate Week (10-16 October 2011) we have come up with the best chocolate treats to help keep you sweet.

Organic Stem Ginger Biscuits Coated In Dark Chocolate
Duchy Originals at Waitrose
Packed with spicy organic ginger and covered in a thick layer of sweet dark chocolate, these biscuits are the ultimate decadent treat. For days when a chocolate covered digestive just won’t cut it, reach for one of these.


Chocolate & Rosemary Ice-Cream
Heston at Waitrose
Fat Duck genius Blumenthal has collaborated with Waitrose to produce this deliciously smooth and creamy chocolate and rosemary ice-cream. Go on, surprise your taste buds with its bitter/sweet combination.



Chocolate & Vanilla Little Desserts
Petits Filous at Waitrose
Despite being made with real cream these delicious vanilla or chocolate lunchbox-sized treats are less than 100 calories per pot, making them the perfect snack for your little ones and a guilt free treat for you too.


Excellence Dark With A Touch Of Sea Salt
Lindt Chocolate
A dramatic amalgamation of sweet, silky dark chocolate and hand harvested sea salt, makes this a fine combination – and if dark chocolate’s not your thing, it’s also available in milk.


White Chocolate
Green and Blacks
Perhaps a chocolate purist might complain that as this chocolate bar doesn’t contain 75% cocoa solids it doesn’t deserve a place. However, as it’s made from cocoa butter pressed directly from crushed cocoa beans and is flavoured with fragrant Madagascan vanilla, it gets our vote.


Salted Caramels
Artisan du Chocolat N°1 at Selfridges
Another heavenly flavour combination – this time from Artisan’s most famous creation; the salted caramel. If you had to choose one chocolate for the rest of your life, let this be it. Dusted cocoa balls of crunchy chocolate encase a velvety, salted caramel liquid. Expensive but worth every penny.


Chocolate Goji & Coconut Raw Chocolate
Conscious at Planet Organic
For the health conscious out there, this delicious raw chocolate bar packed with goji berries and coconut flakes is the one for you. Crammed with anti-oxidant and anti-ageing properties, it’s also gluten and sugar free. Now who said chocolate couldn’t be good for you?
Read our 5 Minutes With Q&A with Planet Organic founder Renée Elliott here.


Vanilla Sprinkled With Dark Chocolate
Müller Light at Waitrose
Müller’s latest creation deserves a mention if only for its fat-free, sweet-tooth quelling properties. Perfect for those days when you’re trying to be good but only something sugary will do. Pleasure without the guilt.

