Chocolate weekly 14 - 2015
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Last week we showed you some amazing Easter eggs, but Easter is not yet over and it is coming in different forms. Have you already chosen your favourite chocolates?
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Big Bertha, handmade English chocolate decorated in a Victorian design of spring blossoms and chocolate piping. Measuring 31 inches high, 67 inches in circumference. Made to order; 7.7kg £350 and 12.25kg £650, Charbonnel & Walker
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Hand-decorated white chocolate egg, made in England with Fortnum & Mason’s tercentenary white chocolate blend and decorated with sugar flowers, filled with white chocolate shapes; £39.95 Fortnum & Mason
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Nesting Dolls by Pierre Marcolini in dark or milk chocolate, contain praline eggs except for the small doll. Large doll 17cm 500g £45, medium doll 14cm 250g £35, little doll 8cm £13.90; exclusive to Selfridges.
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Chocolate Beehive Sculpture, limited-edition chocolate made by a mother-and-daughter team of chocolatiers and inspired by the store’s rooftop bees; £250 Fortnum & Mason.
Dark Chocolate Fish, hollow decorated fish; £40 Charbonnel & Walker
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Claridge’s Art Deco Easter Egg, limited-edition of 100 dark, milk and white chocolate eggs inspired by the hotel’s checkerboard lobby, filled with chocolate quail eggs created by head pastry chef Ross Sneddon, £60 (hotel gift shop 020 7629 1508) Claridge’s.
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Harrods Limited Edition Hand Painted Couverture eggs, £195 each Harrods
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Pierre Marcolini Hen Doll, milk chocolate with praline eggs, 24cm high 830g; £62 Marcolini and Selfridges.
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Melt Couture Egg, a homage to Alexander McQueen and the inspirational Savage Beauty exhibition at the V&A, handmade by Melt’s head chocolatier Eiichi Sukegawa. Available in dark chocolate from Ecuador or white; £350 to order at the Melt concession (020 7318 3477) in Selfridges.
La Maison du Chocolat Breakaway Flock,handmade figurines filled with a variety of eggs from crispy crêpe praliné and milk chocolate almond to dark chocolate hazelnut praliné and crunchy dark chocolate eggs. Shown here two Small Feather (200g) geese, £35 each, and Easter Stopover large goose filled with 100g of praliné eggs (750g) £105 from La Maison du Chocolat, Selfridges and Harrods.
Enjoy a happy Easter!
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