Giveaway & Review Hotel Chocolat Love Notes
It’s that time of year again when the shops go into overdrive selling Valentine’s Day merchandise. Expectation levels are high; will we receive flowers, chocolates, a card from the petrol station, an invitation to dinner?! Or none of the above, with the reasoning that true love should be expressed throughout the year and not just on one day…My little boy is making a Valentine’s day card this year. He’s six and there is one particular young lady who has captured his attention. I’ve already received my ‘love note’ from him and a cut out heart, saying “I Love You Mummy.” I’ve also had an early taste of some Hotel Chocolat ‘Love Notes’ – so I’m a happy girl even if that’s my lot. I also have a box to share with one of my readers, too.
This year, the Hotel Chocolat Love Notes Menu reveals – Amaretto Marzipan, Caramel Praline, Champagne Bellini, Dark Mousse, Lemon Berry Tart and Salted Praline. In this box, you get 12 chocolates, two of each flavour. The box is small but sturdy, you could keep it for your real love notes. Underneath the chocolates, there are twelve love quotes, so as you pick each chocolate out of the box, you reveal a little message. Since I’ve just been to see Les Misérables, I’ll share a Victor Hugo quote from the box – “Love is a portion of the soul itself.”
There’s a clear winner in this box for me – the Caramel Praline. If you’ve ever tasted Hotel Chocolate’s Caramel Button’s you’ll know what I mean when I say it’s almost impossible not to eat the whole packet in one sitting. So, the combination of milk chocolate, praline and caramel in a heart-shaped chocolate was definitely the highlight of the box for me. My husband immediately picked out the two Amaretto Marzipan chocolates, since those are his two very favourite flavours. I’m not usually a fan of fruity chocolates, but the Lemon Berry Tart (white chocolate) offered a taste of rich lemon curd with a spike of berries followed by sweet and mellow white chocolate. The Champagne Bellini has a really good hit of alcohol and a dash of peach, but I didn’t really get any peach flavour. The Dark Mousse was probably my least favourite, but then again, I’ve always favoured Hotel Chocolat’s milk chocolate range, but that’s just me. There’s a Salted Praline, too, and though I’m a little over salted chocolate this one has a good pinch of Fleur de Sel.
Hotel Chocolat’s Love Notes are priced at £14.00. Last year, I believe that the box contained a little card that you could write a personal love note on, this year, you don’t get a card, only the insert with love quotations.
I also noticed their Lovebirds chocolate (priced at £10.00), which I thought were sweet.
If you are hoping to impress someone this Valentine’s Day, I’d say go for The Affection Collection along with a Revive Treatmeant Candle.
Here’s how to enter the Hotel Chocolat Giveaway – the prize will be sent out by Hotel Chocolat directly.
Note – This is a sponsored review, all views and opinion expressed are my own. Many thanks to Hotel Chocolat.
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White Chocolate vanilla swirl
Praline
white chocolate and raspberry
Anything minty!!
My favourite is dark chocolate and strawberry cream
orange
im a praline girl 🙂 or salted caramel 😀
coconut flavour
milk chocolate
I love strawberry creme in dark chocolate.
Dark chocolate (85%) truffle.
Chocolate covered caramel!
Plain Chocolate with Orange – mmm!!!!!
Strawberry cream :}
Praline – love nuts because I’m nutty myself 🙂
chocolate caramel x
I love chocolate with any nuts
Any chocolate with caramel
Cherry and dark chocolate
DARK Chocolate and Orange
I love chocolate with chilli
I love praline!
Milk chocolate with any kind or fruit or truffle filling. As long as it isn’t nutty – I’m a fan!
White Chocolate vanilla swirl! X
salted caramel
I love white chocolate and raspberry
i love strawberry creams
I love nuts and milk chocolate
I love Violet & rose creams. Yum 🙂
mmm orange cream or raspberry cream…ooh i had apple in dark chocolate once which was delicious!
I love Turkish Delight.
Chocolate Orange
Choclate caramels
White Chocolate
raspberry and milk
Butterscotch
I love Raspberry creams but any soft centre is my favourite
It has to be chocolates with a hazelnut praline …..although my father in law has just introduced me to chilli chocolate and that is gorgeous!
hazelnut caramel
Salted caramel and milk chocolate!
Salted Caramel!!
milk chocolate and caramel
I love caramel centres – yum 🙂
mint chocolate once i start eating it i cant stop most of all after eights lol
Truffle with Hazelnut
White chocolate
Any chocolate and nut combination
Salted Caramel
White chocolate and raspberry 🙂
I love dark chocolate with coffee filling
Orange cream
i love chilli chocolate
white choc with a runny strawberry center 🙂
I love chocolate praline x
Caramel ( preferably one of the hard, chewy ones )
2 of my favourites are Turkish Delight and any coffee flavoured chocolates.
Turkish delight is my favourite
Hazlenut pralines are my fave 🙂
Hazlenut pralines are my fave 🙂
Mmmmmm definately a sticky runny caramel!
Turkish delight is my favourite
Strawberry creams
I love Praline
Chocolate with soft caramel centres
Turkish delight covered in milk chocolate
Rum n raisin
I love truffles, especially fruity ones.
hmm think it would have to be caramel
I love dark chocolate truffles
Anything boozy!
Milk choc strawberry creams mmmmmm
choc orange
Mint chocolate
Or…….Chocolate and Ginger!
Chocolate and praline!!
Chocolate and chilli – particularly in fudge cake. Yummy
White chocolate does it for me
I like turkish delight and chocolate
I LOVE Hotel Chooclat! Visited a store in London. Would love to win this one! I love salted caramel and dark chocolate!
Salt & caramel
Mint chocolate is my favourite, especially crispy mint rather than fondant
In fresh food my fav combo is strawberries dipped in chocolate….as a filling for a choc box choccy would be anything with praline or nuts in it
My fave is soft caramel with or without nuts. Yum!
I like really dark chocolate
Mint and dark chocolate.
White Chocolate Creams
White chocolate truffle
Turkish Delight or Marzipan
Milk Chocolate with Orange
Chocolate and hazelnut
Plain milk chocolate for me
I just love dark chocolate and orange.
white chocolate and Raspberry
This sounds and looks wonderful.
Chocolate and honeycomb
I love chocolate with gooey caramel inside. I noticed they never seem to do caramel in white chocolate tho 🙁
Salted caramel! 🙂
Strawberry Soft Centre!
Dark chocolate with mint.
strawberry creams
I am addicted to dark orange chocolate, it’s heavenly!
Peanut Butter and chocolate!
I love raspberry with dark chocolate so rich and intense 🙂
I love coffee creams
Strawberry cream
Coffee chocolate, mmmm.
peanut butter and dark chocolate
I like chocolate with nuts – yum!
I love salted caramels – the combination of sweet and salt is sooo yummy!
Mint and chocolate .. mmmmmmm!
I like pralines.
I love a nice quality lemon mousse
It’s got to be mint & chocolate for me.
My husband would choose the Amaretto Marzipan ones too! I’m a Caramel Praline girl all the way 🙂
i love a nice nutty praline chocolate
Any alcoholic truffle.
White Chocolate
Chocolate mint creams are my favourite
Any alcoholic truffle.
Love salted caramel
Strawberry creams in milk chocolate
chocolate honeycomb, mmmm yummy
Chcolate and honeycomb
Love raspberry and dark chocolate or praline 🙂 c
Strawberry cream
strawberry liqueur 🙂
rum and raisin chocolate
mint chocolate
coffee cream, i’m drooling just thinking about them!
caremel mmmmm so good
I love all chocolate! But especially truffles.
Anything with a soft centre, preferably caramel 🙂
Chocoate caramel. Mmmm!
White chocolate and lemon
I really like Chocolate Fudge
Chocolate creams
I love mint chocolate!
Coffee cream as long as its not to sweet
Milk chocolate and praline…an amazing combination.
Mint and dark chocolate
I love strawberry creams, yum.
Dark chcocolate is my favourite.
Hotel Chocolate Salted Pralines are my favourite
anything dark and crunchy
Milk chocolate and Hotel Chocolat caramel chocolate.
Milk Chocolate and Caramel
I prefer soft centres and my favourite is coffee cream in a plain chocolate case.
white chocolate and raspberry
Like Scrat, anything with a nut..so hazelnut
caramels
Salted caramel!
White chocolate and raspberry
I luv strawberry cream in dark choc Yumm just the thought of it makes my mouth drewl lol 🙂
Xx
Chocolate and violet cream or rose cream
Choc and coffee.. Yummy!! <3
Praline x
Love cherries covered with dark chocolate
Dark choc, the more bitter the better!
Anything with a praline centre, as long as it’s not dark chocolate.
oooh – I love raspberry souffle style chocs or Lemon flavours (salivating at the thought!)
xx
White chocolate and raspberry!!! xoxo
My favourite is salted caramel.
milk chocolate!
caramel
Macadamia Paste. Hotel Chocolat did them in a selectin box at one time. I utterly fell in love with it.
BAILEYS LIQUEUR CHOCOLATES
I love Caramel and Milk Chocolate – yummy!
My all time favourites are dark chocolate cherry liqueurs
strawberry cream
strawberry or orange cream chocolates
I love fruity flavours and turkish delight
Hazelnut praline
Orange creme
I love anything with nuts – the Salted Praline sounds gorgeous!
Chocolate Salted Caramels
dark chocolate and coffee
Chocolate and marzipan
Caramel praline. Love love love anything with caramel
Milk chocolate and nuts
Chocolate and strawberry
I love coffee flavour, luckily no one else in my house likes them, bonus!
Ive yet to meet a chocolate that I dont like but my absolute favourite is Praline.
Chocolate praline
Nothing has yet beaten salted caramel, but I’m open to offers 😉
caramel and milk chocolate
Any fruit cream….to match my fruity personality or a nut one for my Nutty Husband 🙂
I love Praline
coffee flavoured chocolate
Milk chocolate with pistachio 🙂
Milk chocolate with a marzipan centre.
dark chocolate and orange – yum!
I love Hotel Chocolat’s chilli chocolate
Marzipan and dark chocolate!
I love strawberry and chocolate combo, or things like terrys chocolate orange <3
Milk Chocolate with Praline Centre
Fave chocolate? After Eights!
dark chocolates and nuts
Dark Chocolate with nuts
I love choc with honeycomb, it is so moreish
Dark Chocolate and Bitter Orange my favourite Choc
love chocolate orange!!!!
I love strawberry creams!
Dark chocolate and strawberry simply delicious !
salted caramel yum!
I love the combination of white chocolate and hazelnut. I’m just sad not many places have it….
My favourite chocolate combination is Hazelnut and Caramel 🙂
Dark chocolate and coffee ….. a match made in heaven x
Milk chocolate and caramel
chocolate truffles
Mint chocolate.
Mint chocolate
Anything with hazelnuts
I love orange creams. There is nothing quite like the bitter sweet taste of dark chocolate and a creamy orange filling
Dark chocolate and Raspberry
dark chocolate and marzipan
Strawberry Cream
Chocolate and Cherry
any thing with milk chocolate is heaven
Milk choc and praline….heaven. Also love truffles, caramel, nuts……anything with choc really!
White Chocolate With A lemon Filling
Soft Caramel for me – my teeth aren’t what they used to be
Milk chocolate praline with walnuts
strawberry creme for me
Orange cream
Milk tuffle in white chocolate
White chocolate and Vanilla
Dark chocolate truffles mmmm
my favourite chocolates are milk chocolate truffles
Amaretto Marzipan
My favourite are praline though I love just about all milk or white chocolate.
chocolate honeycomb yum
Hotel Chocolat truffles – they are divine! I could slap my granny for them!
Love Strawberry or Orange Creams.
Simon.
Chocolate and honeycomb go together very well, yum!
Dark chocolate and violet cream
Milk and white chocolate ,mmmmmmmmm!!
i like all types of choc! but my fave is with nuts
I like fillings to be coconut or caramel. Once had Chilli chocolate, which was delicious.
It has to be Coffee – I miss the creams in tins so much at Christmas I go and buy them separately and put them in lol – always my favourite!
Salty Caramel
strawberry cremes
white chocolate with coconut
I love any type of praline.
chocolate orange is divine,invited friends to your blog
Recently I’ve started to enjoy good liqueur chocolates. However, I’m still rather hung up on HCs gingerbread truffle from Christmas
Strawberry cream, mmm…
Milk chocolate and nuts – yummy!
Strawberry cream
Dark chocolate caramel or toffee
any fruit and nut chocolate
I love mint chocolate.
I don’t have a favourite brand but I’m particularly drawn to dark chocolate with praline, raspberry, cherry or orange. Yum!
raspberry and milk chocolate
Chocolate Truffle!
DARK CHOCOLATE WITH MARZIPAN FILLING
Anything with caramel! Love pretty much all chocolate though!
Love all Hotel chocolate – they can’t put a foot wrong for me.
Amaretto Marzipan – delicious
I like so many, but at the moment, mint. Loving that new mint kitkat, and After Eights, and Bendicks of course.
Mint Chocolate..yummmmm
White chocolate and raspberry
milk chocolate!
orange creme
Mint Chocolate, sooo addictive
Caramel Praline ..to die for:)