This easy Christmas trifle recipe makes a Christmas themed chocolate trifle with a taste of the tropics – layers of rum-soaked chocolate brownies, lychee jelly, fresh dragon fruit, fluffy pandan pudding, crunchy chocolate biscuit, and whipped cream. While they may look elegant presented in individual glasses, these single serve trifles are the easiest Christmas trifles … Read more
The best chocolate shops in the world are in the cities you expect to find them – Barcelona, Vienna and Paris. This is our guide to the finest chocolate makers and chocolate houses in three of our favourite European cities – and our tips for nearby lodgings for chocolate lovers if you want to make … Read more
I will always choose savoury over sweet, spice over sugar. My ideal dessert is something like this traditional chocolate Catalan treat, because it includes salt and olive oil. I’ll eat – and I’ll enjoy – dessert when it comes at the end of a degustation menu and I’ll happily test out Terence’s chocolate experiments (like this … Read more
Krakow foodie souvenirs include traditional Polish treats to take home such as beautifully packaged honeys, preserves, syrups, teas, coffees, confectionary, and of course, chocolate, along with homemade local liqueurs you won’t find outside Poland. Here are our recommendation for the best edible souvenirs to buy. Sipping gluhwein at Kraków’s Christmas markets, taking in midnight mass on Christmas … Read more
The best Vienna chocolate shops in Austria’s capital range from Demel, the former royal court confectioner, loved by Viennese for its decadent chocolates as much as its Sachertorte to Austria’s more innovative, smaller, boutique chocolatiers, such as Tiroler Edl, available at enormous gourmet emporium of Julius Meinl. Vienna’s chocolate history is long and rich and … Read more