We’re well and truly into spring, and one of the best things about this season is the bounty of blooming flowers you’ll catch springing up across the landscape. Is there anything better than catching sight of bluebells popping against grass, or of yellow daffodils bringing a spark of colour to your evening walk?
Like a beautiful bouquet of flowers, we’ve got a selection of floral-flavoured chocolates everyone should try. While some may recoil at the thought of floral flavours, we can assure you these chocolates perfectly balance the cocoa flavour with that of the plants. Here are our top 7 favourite floral flavoured chocolates.
7. Juniper (Gin & Tonic/COCO Chocolatier) — bubbles and botanicals
Tis the time of year for sipping drinks on a picnic blanket in the park. To all the G&T lovers out there, this chocolate was meant for you. Highlighting the robust floral juniper berry flavour alongside other botanicals, COCO Chocolatier has created this superb dark chocolate.
What’s more, the punch of lemon and lime oils adds a citrussy note to highlight the juniper even more. The whole chocolate is perfectly balanced between cocoa and other flavours.
6. Scots Pine (Charlotte Flower) — an all-year-round delight
While not classically a spring flavour, Scots pine is an evergreen tree found all across the UK in forested areas. Notably, it is Scotland’s national tree and found throughout the Caledonian pine forests of yore. The spines of a scots pine tree, the woody green needles, give off a faint floral lemony taste.
Charlotte Flowers has done the unimaginable and infused this 66% dark chocolate with the zingy floral notes of Scots pine for a unique flavour profile.
5. Wild Gorse (Wild Gorse Flower/Chocolarder) — Scottish springtime staple
Nothing screams spring like gorse bushes. Glance across any Scottish hillside in spring/summer and you’ll find the bright yellow pops of flowers. These jaggy bushes bloom with bright yellow petals that release a scent uncannily similar to coconut and vanilla.
With a scent already this delicious, no wonder chocolate-makers add it to chocolate to create new combinations. Chocolarder’s Wild Gorse dark chocolate is delicious and packed with the subtle sublime taste of these pretty yellow bushes.
4. Rose (Love Potion No. 9/Conscious) — love is in the air…
Rose as a flavour is enjoyed in various other sweet forms, such as Turkish delight, and its powdery floral taste works remarkably well when paired with chocolate. This symbol of love and affection has been turned into a sweet chocolate bar by Conscious, called Love Potion No. 9. Blending Conscious’ uniquely textured chocolate with notes of rose and maca, you’re sure to fall in love with this flavour.
3. Lavender (Sweet Lavender/Seed & Bean) — relax, unwind and let it all go
The calming scent of lavender is enough to make anybody stop and smell the roses this time of year. With their vibrant purple hue and distinct aromatic smell, these flowers can be spotted blooming in late spring and early summer.
Seed & Bean have blended French lavender oil with their delicious 72% dark chocolate to create a sweet (and not overly floral) chocolate bar, that’s sure to give you some well-needed peace and chill time.
2. Violet (Violet Milk/Ocelot) — these violet delights have delicious ends
Hard to miss, violets are renowned for their vibrant purple-coloured petals. Blooming in early spring, these bundles of circular petalled flowers are easy to spot poking through the grass.
Scottish chocolatemakers, Ocelot, have paired the sweet, light flavour with a dark-milk chocolate in which both chocolate and flower get their time to shine. Roses are red, violets are blue, you’ll love this chocolate, we promise you!
1. Elderflower (Charlotte Flower) — gentle flavours for a gentle season
A favourite of the Scandinavians, elderflower’s small white flowers, not unlike little clouds, have a delicate sweet taste. These flowers are frequently used to make a cordial, but Charlotte Flower has done it again and infused their delicate flavour into a delicious chocolate bar.
This one is white chocolate, and the vanilla of the white chocolate allows the elderflower to shine, bringing it to the front of the flavour without masking it's subtlety, a must-try!
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