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Have some fun in the kitchen making this Triple Chocolate Bark.  There is something for everyone in these chocolate bars. It can be topped with crushed mini eggs which will appeal to young and old alike, or if you fancy trying something a little more sophisticated, the Salted Rosemary Triple Chocolate Bark may be more up your street. Both are perfect to serve with after dinner coffees, or as a treat.

 

Judging by the amount of chocolate sold in the UK every year it’s safe to say we all love a bit of chocolate from time to time. Instead of buying one of the 80 million Easter eggs sold in the UK every year, what could be more fun than making your own chocolate bar or Easter egg? I was lucky enough to be invited to make my own Easter Egg at Melts in Notting Hill along with a few other bloggers. All thanks to the kind people behind Thermapen who sponsored the event. It is probably a bit late this year to start making Easter Eggs but you can still have some chocolaty fun with this really easy to make Triple Chocolate Bark.

Tempering Chocolate

Tempering chocolate is the process that ensures the chocolate sets properly, giving it a smooth and glossy appearance and a firm texture. Chocolate that has been simply melted and cooled may be lumpy, streaky, or prone to melting. It requires heating  and cooling the chocolate to set temperatures. It’s not difficult to temper chocolate as I explained  in more detail in my earlier post How to Temper Chocolate.

Thermometers

While it is not essential to use a thermometer to temper chocolate, it really does take the guess work out of the process, especially for beginners, and will ensure success time after time.  At the risk of repeating myself,  if you enjoy cooking then I would  recommend buying one. They are so useful in the kitchen not only in helping to ensure success when making sweets, confectionary, and jams but also when cooking meat and reheating foods. Digital thermometers are the easiest to use and most versatile.

Ever since I worked on De Agostini’s “Something Sweet” magazine I have used  a Thermapen thermometer, which I highly recommend. They are super accurate and very reliable.  I managed to get through several different thermometers in a short period of time before investing in a Thermapen.  (As you can imagine, I made a lot of sweets and confectionary during the 2½ or so years I worked on that project). The Thermapen was the only one that really worked consistently well for any length of time. What’s more it is still the one in daily use in my kitchen now, two years later.

Now  two lucky readers of Recipes Made Easy can win a Thermapen for themselves. I’m sure you will agree it’s a great Prize! Just scroll down to find out how.

 

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5 from 1 vote

Triple Chocolate Bark

These homemade chocolate bars are simple to make and look fantastic.
Prep Time1 hr
Course: confectionary
Cuisine: British
Servings: 12
Calories: 274kcal
Author: Jacqueline Bellefontaine

Ingredients

metric - US cups
  • 200 g plain (dark) chocolate
  • 200 g milk chocolate
  • 200 g white chocolate
  • mini eggs, chopped
  • rosemary and sea salt crystals

Instructions

  • Line two baking sheets with baking parchment. Temper the plain, milk and white chocolate. Chop the mini eggs.
  • Pour half of the melted white chocolate in a line down the middle of the baking sheet. Repeat on the second baking sheet with the remaining white chocolate.
  • Now pour lines of plain chocolate down one side of the white chocolate and milk chocolate on the other side.
  • Gently tap the baking tray on the work surface so that the chocolate spreads and slightly flattens.
  • Using the blade of a dinner knife swirl the white chocolate into and out of the chocolate either side. You can also tease the sides of the chocolate out so that it forms a rough rectangle.
  • Sprinkle the chocolate with chopped mini eggs or a little bit of finely chopped fresh rosemary and seasalt crystals to complete. Allow to set before breaking into chunks to serve,

Notes

Nutrition data does not include toppings

Nutrition

Serving: 50g | Calories: 274kcal | Carbohydrates: 27g | Protein: 2g | Fat: 18g | Saturated Fat: 10g | Cholesterol: 4mg | Sodium: 21mg | Potassium: 215mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 22g | Vitamin A: 0.2% | Vitamin C: 0.1% | Calcium: 4.9% | Iron: 13.8%
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adding remaining "seed" chocolate.
Pour lines of chocolate onto the baking parchment.
Tap the baking sheet to level out the chocolate.
Use a dinner knife to swirl the chocolate together.
Sprinkle on the topping.

Your Chance to Win a Thermapen

The SuperFast Thermapen digital thermometer is used by top chefs and chocolatiers. The Thermapen 4 includes a patented 360° self-rotating display that can be used in any position, in either hand.  The unit incorporates an intelligent backlit display sensing light levels, automatically turning the backlight on/off in varying light conditions.  The motion-sensing sleep mode automatically turns the unit on/off when set down or picked up, maximising battery life.  The Thermapen case is waterproof and includes `Biomaster’ additive that reduces bacterial growth. The Thermapen is competitively priced from £48 each, and available in a variety of colours direct from Thermapen.

You have probably picked up that the above is an extract from the press release by the Thermapen people. By now you also know at I am not in the habit of recommending anything I do not like myself.  Thermapen have offered me two Thermapen as prizes for my very first Give Away Competition on Recipes Made Easy. Given that it is a piece of equipment that I really love using I couldn’t be happier.

It’s Really Easy To Enter

Rafflecopter is a little piece of software that allows me to run a kind of raffle on Recipes Made Easy. For your chance to WIN  a Thermapen ,  enter for free. First scroll down to the comments section after the post and leave a comment letting me know which is your favourite type of chocolate. Then pop back up and fill in the little Rafflecopter widget below ticking to say that you have left a comment (it’s clever it can check). Don’t worry if your comment doesn’t appear immediately, it is being waiting to be approved which is a way of avoiding  the site getting a lot of spam comments. Your name and email address are obtained only for the purpose of contacting the winner and will not be stored or used for any other purpose after the competition ends.

It’s really easy to use and there are bonus chances to get extra entries by doing things such as following me on Twitter or visiting my Facebook page. You do not have to do any of these extra things but it will give you more chances to win!

When the competition closes, the little widget will randomly select a winner. I will then contact the winner via email to arrange for the prize to be sent to you from Thermapen.  Good luck!

Please note that the competition is open to entries from the UK only.
a Rafflecopter giveaway

The Small Print

  • This giveaway is free to enter. There are two prizes and two winners who each will receive one Thermapen.
  • The competition is only open to those resident in the UK and can not be sent overseas.
  • There is no cash alternative.
  • Entry is via the Rafflecopter widget only.
  • The winner will be selected at random by the Rafflecopter widget.
  • Once the prizes have been posted, Recipes Made Easy and Thermapen cannot be held responsible for any loss or damage to the parcel during transit.
  • The  giveaway will close at midnight on 27th April.
  • The randomly selected winner will be contacted by email within 48 hours of the giveaway closing and will have 7 days to respond, otherwise an alternative winner will be drawn.

 

 

Disclosure:

I have been given two Thermapens  as prizes. I have received no other payment for this post. As always, all opinions expressed are my own and I will only ever recommend products I would, and do, genuinely use myself and that I think are a good fit with Recipe Made Easy.

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About Jacqueline Bellefontaine

Jacqueline has been a cookery writer and food stylist for over 25 years and is a member of the Guild of Food Writers. She is the author of 18 cookbooks and now writes two blogs where she shares the recipes she cooks at home for family and friends, or just for fun. Jacqueline started her food writing career on a weekly magazine and as a result likes to champion good basic home cooking. The daughter of a master baker she is passionate about home baking and is happiest in the kitchen knocking up a batch of buns or baking a loaf of bread. Jacqueline has two grown sons and lives with her husband in Central London.

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  1. Allison Sherwood

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    I love dark chocolate

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  2. Julie

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    Don’t like dark chocolate … but love milk [a bar of food old Galaxy is heaven] but throw some orange in there too and it’s all over for me!

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  3. Maxine G

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    Dark – especially with a strong black coffee. A delicious treat!

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  4. Jayne K

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    Milk chocolate but not too sweet

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  5. Christine Caple

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    I like milk chocolate best, dark is okay, but I don’t like white chocolate at all.

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  6. Harline Parkin

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    I love dark chocolate the best but I do love milk and White too

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  7. Iris W

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    Milk chocolate is my favourite but I am not to fussy really and quite happily eat dark or white chocolate too

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  8. Jayne Townson

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    I love all chocolate, but if I had to pick, then it would be milk. Thanks for the lovely giveaway.

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  9. Sarah Glover

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    I love dark chocolate…. not TOO dark though!!

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  10. Rachel Butterworth

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    Milk (although I am on a bit of a white chocolate kick at the moment).

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  12. Natalie Turner

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    I love dark, I find I can’t stand the over-sweetness of any other chocolate

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  13. Samantha Atherton

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    Definitely going to try this. I like dark chocolate the most.

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  14. Wendy Burdon

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    I love all chocolate, but white chocolate the best!

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  15. Mark Scott

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    Milk chocolate for me it’s my favourite

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  16. Sarah

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    My husband loves dark chocolate but I much prefer milk.

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  18. Dawn Wilkinson

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    Dark chocolate is my favourite even when I was a child.

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  19. Jayne

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    I love all chocolate but love a good dark chocolate with dried raspberries in.

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  20. Julie Simmons

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    White chocolate is definitely my favourite but I’m trying to wean myself off sugar so would pick a good 85% dark chocolate instead!

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  21. Angie S

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    My fave is dark chocolate, even better if it has a little chilli! I do like all choc though and your bark looks very tempting 🙂

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  23. Ruth Harwood

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    Milk chocolate has to be my fave, tho I am partial to a slice or two of white choc!!

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  24. Helen Webb

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    I like dark chocolate, especially the ones you get with bits of dried raspberry or ginger. But sometimes I just need a good old bar of Cadburys dairy milk!

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  25. Jo

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    In a 50% cocoa solids kinda gal between milk and dark. Not that I’m fussy or per 😉

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  28. Rebecca Nisbet

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    i prefer milk, but would happily eat all 3!

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  29. Kate

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    It has to be milk chocolate although I have become very fond of white lately – I really dislike dark chocolate!

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  30. Heather T

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    I can’t choose – I would eat any or all types of chocolate!

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  32. Katie Skeoch

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    I love a piece of dark chocolate!

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  33. Jo Carroll

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    I go through stages of preferring all three but if I only had one choice I’d opt for the dark as it has a fuller cocoa flavour.

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  35. Cheryl Price

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    I love milk chocolate the best

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  36. Cheryl Price

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    I love milk chocolate the best

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  37. susan hoggett

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    I do love white chocolate, so creamy!

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  38. Julie Jones

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    I love Dark chocolate and as Real Chocolate is actually good for you its a bonus

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  40. Tracy Newton

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    I love all chocolate, especially milk chocolate.

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  42. melanie stirling

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    Milk is my favourite.

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  47. Sarah Cooper

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    Milk chocolate is my favourite,

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  48. pete c

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    gotta be milk chocolate for me

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  49. Mark R

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    Like them all but favourite has to be milk chocolate

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  50. Lisa Parker

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    I love both milk chocolate and white chocolate x

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  51. Claire Holtey

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    Chocolate so depends on your mood, which is influence by how tight my trousers are. A little dark or lots of milk? Perhaps a little bit of both

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  55. Lorraine B

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    Milk, although the older I get the more I appreciate dark chocolate

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  56. Laura Pritchard

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    Milk but also milk with white combined!

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  57. Lorna Ledger

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    oooh so hard, today I’m choosing white, tomorrow, it might be different!

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    • Jacqueline Bellefontaine

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      I’m with you on that. I normally say milk but just at the moment I am enjoying eating the egg I made at Melts and that is a lovely rich dark chocolate. Eaten in small amount at a time its fabulous, so today its my favourite.

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  58. Ellen Sheppard

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    I love white chocolate.

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  59. pauline hill

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    LOVE the dark chocolate

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  60. Sheena Batey

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    I honestly like all three but prefer dark chocolate if I had to choose.

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  61. RebeccaC

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    Dark chocolate is a family favourite at our house.

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  62. Tony Metcalfe

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    Milk chocolate for me.

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  63. Stevie

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    I like milk chocolate but enjoy dark chocolate for a rare treat.

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  65. PenoirB

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    My favourite is milk chocolate closely followed by white chocolate.

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  66. Hazel Rea

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    I love dark chocolate – particularly 85% and it’s guilt free because of all those antioxidants it contains!

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  68. Kirsty Sparks

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    I love milk chocolate 🙂

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  69. charlotte

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    milk! especially galaxy mmm

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  70. Sharon Lou Johnson

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    i just love milk x

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  71. Carolynn Woodland

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    I love milk chocolate the best.

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  72. Amanda

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    Milk Chocolate is my favourite

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  75. Rebecca Smith

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    What a great way to combine art with chocolate, I love this new idea of making bark, it appeals to the inner artist in, me…the possibilities are endless.

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  76. ruth robinson

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    i really like the creaminess of milk chocolate

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  78. Alexandra oliver

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    dark chocolate with ginger- yum!

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  80. Lorraine Tinsley

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    Dark is my favourite

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  81. Claire Nutman

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    Dark ginger is my fave x thank you

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  82. laura banks

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    my favorite is dark chocolate

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  86. Sarah Ann

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    My favourite type of chocolate is definitely dark.

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  87. jenny walters

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    Milk Chocolate when filling face on the sofa but have a serious thing for dark chocolate in desserts,the richer the better.Love your recipe x

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    • Jacqueline Bellefontaine

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      Thank you Jenny. I know where your coming from. Milk chocolate is like pure comfort food. ark chocolate is more refined so I have to be in the mood. Funnily enough Im not absolutely crazy about chocolate desserts and cakes but when I do make them I tend to go for the richer the better approach.

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  88. Becky Duffy

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    Milk chocolate is my favourite!

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  90. Lisa Pope

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    Milk to eat & dark in cooking

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  93. Kim Neville

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    Milk chocolate is my fsvourite

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  95. Eb Gargano / easypeasyfoodie.com

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    Definitely dark!! The darker the better usually. I’m an 85% type of girl. I find anything else way too sweet (I went sugar free for a good chunk of last year and now I find so many things I used to like much too sweet…which is a good thing!!) Thanks for linking up to #CookBlogShare 🙂 Eb x

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    • Jacqueline Bellefontaine

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      Your so good I would find it hard to go sugar free. But I dont like things too sweet which is why I am coming round to dark chocolate. But milk is still my fav especially milk choc with a 30%+ or so cocoa solid

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  97. Louise A

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    I like them all especially dark chocolate with coffee but my absolute favourite is white

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  101. sarah birkett

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    milk please ( or white )

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  102. Tom

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    I’ll eat pretty much any chocolate, but my favourite is probably dark!

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  103. Gillian Hutchison

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    milk chocolate is my favourite with white chocolate a close second. my sister still argues with me that caramac is a type of chocolate… it’s not!!

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    • Jacqueline Bellefontaine

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      No not a chocolate but i used to love caramac! Cat remember the last time i has it can you still buy it? I cant rememeber seeing it in a while.

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  105. Soph H

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    White chocolate I reckon, although I like milk too

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  106. Lee Ritson

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    Definitely white chocolate for me. Will eat any but preference is white 🙂

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  108. Anthony Harrington

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    the Darker the better for me! love all choccy but dark is my fav!

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  109. Jennifer Gardner

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    Milk chocolate for me!

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  110. simon tutthill

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    I have to say i love white chocolate,tastes absolutely gorgeous

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  112. Alan Chung

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    I do prefer dark chocolate as its not too sweet

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  113. Edward Guerreiro

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    For the longest time white chocolate was my favourite. But as I have got older, I have started to like dark chocolate more.

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  114. Lorraine Kirk

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    Milk chocolate is my favourite …. although I am not fussy when it comes to chocolate.

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  118. stuart hargreaves

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    milk chocolate- however I ration myself to one bar a week

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  119. Paul Wilson

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    I like all of them, but I particularly like dark chocolate at the moment.

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  120. Marc H

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    Dark, the higher the cocoa content the better. Will quite happily munch on any chocolate though.

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  123. Mark Johnson

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    love all chocolate but dark is my favourite

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  124. Mary N

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    It depends on how I’m feeling. I do mostly like dark but there are times when I prefer the sweetness of milk chocolate.

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  125. Rob Hutchinson

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    I find dark chocolate and little too bitter and white chocolate a little too sweet for my taste, so milk chocolate is my favourite, especially if it contains a little sea salt.

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  128. kim jackson

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    I love all chocolate but my go to is normally milk chocolate 😀

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  129. Sarah Rees

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    I love milk chocolate and white chocolate but cant stand dark chocolate

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  130. S Edwards

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    I love milk chocolates but dark chocolate is better for you 🙂

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  131. Heather Haigh

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    I have to have dairy free chocolate but I like the ‘milky’ ones best.

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  132. Kerry Taylor

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    Milk chocolate, with nuts. Yummy! This looks a good Easter project for me and my little boy.

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  133. Tracy Nixon

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    Milk and white equally !

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  134. Heather Simpson

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    I love white chocolate

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  135. Tracey Peach

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    It has to be White chocolate for it’s creamy taste 🙂 x

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  136. Fiona

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    Milk chocolate, not really a fan of dark! Do like white chocolate though.

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  137. Mandy

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    I tend to prefer dark chocolate now as I always overdo it with milk or white and then feel sick!

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  138. Charlotte Jones

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    I Love All Chocolate! But I really love dark chocolate. And I will never refuse Milk Chocolate or some White Chocolate. Actually I never refuse Tootsie Rolls!

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  139. Kirsty Hijacked By Twins

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    Do I really have to pick just one?? I love dark chocolate, but also love milk chocolate but I am not a great lover of white chocolate x

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  140. Sophie

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    Dark…..All the way. Preferably nice and strong 70%+….Yum.

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  141. Juanita

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    I don’t actually like any chocolate but Andy loves dark chocolate! Recipe looks great and im sure Andy will eat whatever I make

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    • Jacqueline Bellefontaine

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      Ah Juanita one of very few people or at least any I know. The thermometer is jolly useful not just for making chocolate so good luck!

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  142. Helen Linder

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    5 *****star rating. Xxxxx

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  143. Helen Linder

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    Nick and I love dark, the children love any! X

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  144. Pauline Jones

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    Usually dark, but have the odd craving for cheap and cheerful Cadbury’s Dairy Milk now and again !

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  145. Angela / Only Crumbs Remain

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    Definitely milk chocolate. I don’t say no to white choc, though it can sometimes be a tad too sweet even for me, but I’m really not fond of dark chocolate.
    Angela x

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    • Jacqueline Bellefontaine

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      Milks my favourite but I am learning to like dark. I think in the past I had only eaten cheap dark chocolate but some of the “good” dark chocolate is really rather nice but you would only eat a tiny bit at at time its an altogether different beast.. Good thing though given the cost of some of them

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    • Jacqueline Bellefontaine

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      I was expecting more people to say dark but so far it appears milk is a favourite. It will be interesting to see if that changes.
      Happy Easter. j x

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  148. Nico @ yumsome

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    White chocolate is my favourite – I still haven’t mastered making it vegan. I will though!

    Your bark looks really lovely!

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    • Jacqueline Bellefontaine

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      White used to be my favourite (Milky Bar to be exact) but now it’s definately milk and I am slowly learning to like dark chocolate too. Funny how your tastes can change over the years. Good luck with your Vegan white chocolate quest.

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  149. Sabrina

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    35% or higher milk chocolate

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    • Jacqueline Bellefontaine

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      Now you’re talking! I must admit that I’am a milk chocolate fan but i do like the less sweeter high cocoa solid milk chocolate. That said I am beginning toappreciatee a good dark chocolate too.

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  151. Natalie

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    I’m so going to try this! All chocolate is my favourite, but my most favourite is dark.

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