These chocolate brownies really ought to come with a warning on them. They are slightly addictive. I bake regularly and I can rustle up a pretty good brownie myself. But inside this little box lies pure decadence. I reviewed Bluebasil Brownies once before and in fact, it came to be one of my popular posts and giveaways. This time, my parcel had a festive feel, containing Bluebasil’s Christmas concoctions. Since trying them for myself the first time, I’ve sent many packages of these brownies as gifts, to friends and family. They are always met with sheer delight and they are always welcome on my doormat, too.
Bluebasil Gourmet Brownies are delivered throughout the UK every working day. The company is run by Nikki Taylor and the brownies are hand-baked in a professional kitchen on a farm in the Cotswolds. I want to go there!
Bluebasil use local, organic eggs, organic flour and butter from the Upper Norton Jersey Cream Company. The chocolate used is of excellent quality too, with a minimum of 70% cocoa solids. They also use Divine chocolate as the chocolate chunks in some of their flavours. The order process is very simple, you can phone up, or place an order online, chosing either 9, 12 or 16 pieces in a gift box. The best part of the process is chosing your flavours; the Classic Chocolate Chunk is the first one I always go for along with two or three others, such as Chocwork Orange, Banoffi or Hazlenut.
From 30th November 2012, Bluebasil are launching a selection of special edition Christmas flavours and they really are too good to miss.
The Dark Orange and Ginger, for me, was a clear winner. I savoured every little bite. Imagine sinking your teeth into a slab of the finest quality chocolate truffle you’ve ever eaten; rich and so smooth that they melt in your mouth. There were lots of layers of flavour going on in my perfectly formed square of delight. Alongside the organic eggs, flour and Jersey butter, Bluebasil have incorporated dark chocolate and ginger chocolate, along with natural ginger flavour, notes of Fairtrade vanilla, orange blossom water and a further pinch of ground ginger.
Rudolph’s Rumnut came a close second, with big chunks of Brasil nuts, raisins, dark rum and mixed spice. All the flavours you would want for Christmas. Eaten slowly whilst sipping a dark rum flavoured liqueuer coffee at home, it was a moment of pure pre-Christmas bliss.
The third Christmas flavour was Coffee and Irish Cream, again, very moreish, with Irish cream, extra cream, alcohol and coffee. These were my friend Monika’s favourite flavour. Yes, I did share them.
Luckily, arriving home after a busy day at school, the children got to nibble on the fourth flavour in my box, the Classic Chunky Chocolate, with a nice sip of organic whole milk to go with them. There were quite a lot of happy people around on that day!
I wouldn’t hesitate in recommending these brownies as a treat to send to a friend or a loved one, to cheer them up, to let them know you are thinking about them from afar. My poor friend Laura had a car accident over the summer, so I sent her a package of these and they temporarily made her feel better. I definitely think they helped with the shock. I’ve also sent them as a birthday gift to a friend in Devon and as a thank you gift to a lady in Surrey. You can personalise your message card, too. There are also gluten free alternatives in some flavours and every package comes with a full list of ingredients.
So, now I’ve got my fix, I’m very happy to be able offer one of my readers the chance to win a box of 9 chocolate brownies – to include the new range of special edition Christmas flavours. There will be a fight for these – be lucky!
With many thanks to Nikki and Laura for asking me to review the Christmas flavours and for organising a second box as a prize. The opinions expressed in this post are entirely my own, based on the very happy sampling, and in addition, my own experience of buying Bluebasil Brownies.
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Emma J Lowe says
chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate
Hannah Whitling says
Chocolate and caramel
Sally Peevor says
It has to be chocolate and orange for me.
Michelle Hughes says
Excuse me why I wipe away the dribble they all looky scrumptious I love chocolate orange so I would love to taste those, Happy Christmas x
jackierushton103@hotmail.com says
Chocolate and walnut
Christine Reid says
Chocolate and orange
Nikko turner says
mmm yummy chocolate chunky tastyness
carol phile says
ahem with white chocolate – durr, forgot to put that bit! So that’s cherry and almond and white chocolate yummm
carol phile says
cherry and almond
Clare Walshe says
It has to be chocolate and caramel x
Vicky Louise Robinson says
Milk & white chocolate together
Chistopher Nicholl says
Classic Chunky Chocolate
marianne lester-george says
White chocolate and raspberry
Or chocolate and chili.
ROS Thompson says
Classic Chunky chocolate
Sue Jackson says
chocolate and coffee!
Rennene Hartland says
Chocolate and orange 🙂
jackie curran says
chocolate praline, yummy
shelagh milne says
Dark orange and ginger sounds fab
natalee gosiewski says
mmmmmmmm chocolate is heaven plus walnuts perfect
Andrew Halliwell says
Dark chocolate and mint
sharon johnson says
choclate and mint yum yum
Sue Warr says
Chocolate and Chilli – mmmmmmmmm
Shelley Jessup says
Chocolate & orange sends my taste buds into over drive, so heavenly!
tracy says
Chocolate with caramel, love it.
Fran Douglas says
My favourite combination is chocolate and mint.
Dominique says
Chocolate and Chilli ! 🙂
Susan hoggett says
chocolate and peanut brittle
graeme potter says
Chocolate fruit and nut
Gul says
Dark chocolate & coconut – yum
Natalie White says
I love chocolate and honeycomb 🙂
Jayne K says
Chocolate and marzipan
paul jackson says
chocolate and caramel or mint
Kay Perry says
Chocolate and orange
kristy brown says
Rum and raisin
Petra Hora says
I love white chocolate!
abi rolfe says
white choc with ANYTHING!
Juanita Powers says
white chocolate and coconut
rachael marsden says
got to be mint and chocolate
Mike Bull says
Chocolate and raisins
Michelle Rayner says
mint and chocolate
Anthea Holloway says
I love dark chocolate with ginger
justine meyer says
chocolate and mint yummy
melanie crumpton says
chocolate and nuts
Ann Williams says
Love dark chocolate with cherry.
Sarah B says
Oooh chocolate and peanut butter – so good!
Sarah Lee says
chocolate and orange
Garry Ashworth says
Chocolate with nuts in.
Dawn says
Chocolate and caramel
Renee Armstrong says
White Chocolate
Kerry Kilmister says
Chocolate and cherry
Christine Caple says
Chocolate and mint
Allison Sherwood says
Chocolate and Cherry
David Price says
Chocolate and hazelnut
Sheri Darby says
Dark chocolate and ginger
michele omalley says
Dark Chocolate and Orange
Emma Howard says
Dark chocolate and ginger
Kelly Martin says
I love chocolate and orange.
Carol P says
Chocolate and orange
Nick Hopkins says
Coffee creams
Jenna Parrington says
Chocolate hazelnut! Yum!
Zeb says
Dark Choc rum n rasin
Fiona Matters says
Chocolate and pecan. Mmmmm
Mark says
Choc with seasalt – amazing!
hayley acton says
chocolate and orange
Claire says
I love orange & chocolate!!
Jill Garratt says
Chocolate & caramel – yummy!
Rikka B says
Chocolate and ginger
Tracey Belcher says
Chocolate Truffle or Chocolate and Mint
Keith says
Milk Chocolate with BIG mint bits
Emma Wallace says
Sea salt & dark chocolate, mmmm.
Christine Sunter says
Dark Chocolate and Ginger.
EMMA CELLA says
Chocolate and caramel
Jeanne @ Cooksister says
Aaah, so glad you are running the giveaway too so that I get a chance to enter (I suspect that entering my OWN brownie giveaway would be seen as bad form LOL!) Chocolate & coffee works all the way for me 🙂
Rebecca C Austerberry says
Love chocolate and marshmellow – or turkish delight if im fancying a change!!
Laura Pritchard says
I love dark chocolate with citrus flavours like orange or lemon.
Mark Allen says
Chocolate and toffee or caramel
miss kerry adamowicz says
Chocolate & Mint
Genevra says
just ordered some of this as an xmas present for my mother in law – thanks for the tip!
Barbara Webster says
Chocolate and Raisins 🙂
Sarah says
Chocolate and burnt almond.
Beverley says
Chocolate and fruit = preferably strawberry
Janet Bagnall says
Milk chocolate with any nut, preferably hazelnut
Paul Kay says
Dark chocolate with rum soaked raisins
Kirsteen Mackay says
Milk Chocolate with Pistachio
Sheila Reeves says
Chocolate & raspberries 🙂
Gill Bland says
I love white chocolate and cardamom but for “proper” chocolate I am currently in love with dark choc and pecan.
Karen says
Chocolate and chilli
Nia Wyn Roberts says
chocolate, caramel and shortbread!
Lyndsey Brett says
Milk Chocolate and orange… or White chocolate and strawberry
Ali Thorpe says
Dark chocolate and orange … or dark chocolate and raspberry … or chocolate and nuts!
george Spedding says
Chocolate and nuts
Victoria Leedham says
Chocolate orange
Zoe Howarth says
Orange and chocolate
Sarah Nagle says
Chocolate and cherry is a wonderful combination.
Janice Papworth says
my favourite is chocolate with any sort of nuts.
RenaPlumridge says
Chocolate and orange
Emma Chippendale says
Dark chocolate and ginger
Elizabeth Smith says
milk chocolate and white chocolate
Choclette says
If I hadn’t already tried these, I’d be sold anyway by your review Ren. Chocolate and cardamom is a firm favourite.
Pat Stubbs says
chocolate and coconut are my fav flavours
Stephanie @ Steph Loves Cake says
My fave is chocolate and marshmallow, second fave is chocolate caramel
Kate Webster says
Chocolate and nuts
elaine stokes says
marzipan and milk chocolate
Claire Smith says
Chocolate and orange
Katrina Day-Reilly says
chocolate orange
Julie booth says
milk chocolate with marzipan. Nuts figure highly too.
Sally Smith says
chocolate and orange
Kevin Honey says
Chocolate and Chili… mmmm
Sophie {the cake hunter} says
Chocolate and sea salt…every time!
claire woods says
Chocolate and mint – a must at Christmas.
Katie Kingsbury says
White chocolate and raspberry
Ashleigh says
Chocolate – yum!
Isabel O'Brien says
Chocolate and mint or chocolate and orange. I can almost taste the brownies just looking at them!
laura banks says
chocolate and hazelnuts
Anita says
chocolate and nuts
Daniel Stacey says
Mint
Jo welsh says
I love chocolate mint
Amanda Steel says
Chocolate and mint
Sue McCarthy says
Milk chocolate although if its chocolatey I’ll eat anything!
J Beale says
chocolate and mint
Catherine Thomas says
Love chocolate & honeycomb mmmm
Paul Walshaw says
Chocolate and orange
lorraine dunne says
just plain old chocolate for me
John Taggart says
Chocolate and caramel
Mel Briscoe says
Chocolate and caramel
Lucy J Morgan says
I love white chocolate!
Kim Howard says
I love half milk chocolate with half white chocolate ^_^
Iain Green says
Chocolate with chilli
iain says
milk chocolate with caramel
Martina says
chocolate, fruit and nut
olivia kirby says
chcocolate and peanut butter
olivia kirby says
*Chocolate* even!!