Review and Giveaway: Bluebasil Brownies By Post
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.
chocolate, chocolate and more chocolate
Chocolate and caramel
It has to be chocolate and orange for me.
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
Chocolate and walnut
Chocolate and orange
mmm yummy chocolate chunky tastyness
ahem with white chocolate – durr, forgot to put that bit! So that’s cherry and almond and white chocolate yummm
cherry and almond
It has to be chocolate and caramel x
Milk & white chocolate together
Classic Chunky Chocolate
White chocolate and raspberry
Or chocolate and chili.
Classic Chunky chocolate
chocolate and coffee!
Chocolate and orange 🙂
chocolate praline, yummy
Dark orange and ginger sounds fab
mmmmmmmm chocolate is heaven plus walnuts perfect
Dark chocolate and mint
choclate and mint yum yum
Chocolate and Chilli – mmmmmmmmm
Chocolate & orange sends my taste buds into over drive, so heavenly!
Chocolate with caramel, love it.
My favourite combination is chocolate and mint.
Chocolate and Chilli ! 🙂
chocolate and peanut brittle
Chocolate fruit and nut
Dark chocolate & coconut – yum
I love chocolate and honeycomb 🙂
Chocolate and marzipan
chocolate and caramel or mint
Chocolate and orange
Rum and raisin
I love white chocolate!
white choc with ANYTHING!
white chocolate and coconut
got to be mint and chocolate
Chocolate and raisins
mint and chocolate
I love dark chocolate with ginger
chocolate and mint yummy
chocolate and nuts
Love dark chocolate with cherry.
Oooh chocolate and peanut butter – so good!
chocolate and orange
Chocolate with nuts in.
Chocolate and caramel
White Chocolate
Chocolate and cherry
Chocolate and mint
Chocolate and Cherry
Chocolate and hazelnut
Dark chocolate and ginger
Dark Chocolate and Orange
Dark chocolate and ginger
I love chocolate and orange.
Chocolate and orange
Coffee creams
Chocolate hazelnut! Yum!
Dark Choc rum n rasin
Chocolate and pecan. Mmmmm
Choc with seasalt – amazing!
chocolate and orange
I love orange & chocolate!!
Chocolate & caramel – yummy!
Chocolate and ginger
Chocolate Truffle or Chocolate and Mint
Milk Chocolate with BIG mint bits
Sea salt & dark chocolate, mmmm.
Dark Chocolate and Ginger.
Chocolate and caramel
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 🙂
Love chocolate and marshmellow – or turkish delight if im fancying a change!!
I love dark chocolate with citrus flavours like orange or lemon.
Chocolate and toffee or caramel
Chocolate & Mint
just ordered some of this as an xmas present for my mother in law – thanks for the tip!
Chocolate and Raisins 🙂
Chocolate and burnt almond.
Chocolate and fruit = preferably strawberry
Milk chocolate with any nut, preferably hazelnut
Dark chocolate with rum soaked raisins
Milk Chocolate with Pistachio
Chocolate & raspberries 🙂
I love white chocolate and cardamom but for “proper” chocolate I am currently in love with dark choc and pecan.
Chocolate and chilli
chocolate, caramel and shortbread!
Milk Chocolate and orange… or White chocolate and strawberry
Dark chocolate and orange … or dark chocolate and raspberry … or chocolate and nuts!
Chocolate and nuts
Chocolate orange
Orange and chocolate
Chocolate and cherry is a wonderful combination.
my favourite is chocolate with any sort of nuts.
Chocolate and orange
Dark chocolate and ginger
milk chocolate and white chocolate
If I hadn’t already tried these, I’d be sold anyway by your review Ren. Chocolate and cardamom is a firm favourite.
chocolate and coconut are my fav flavours
My fave is chocolate and marshmallow, second fave is chocolate caramel
Chocolate and nuts
marzipan and milk chocolate
Chocolate and orange
chocolate orange
milk chocolate with marzipan. Nuts figure highly too.
chocolate and orange
Chocolate and Chili… mmmm
Chocolate and sea salt…every time!
Chocolate and mint – a must at Christmas.
White chocolate and raspberry
Chocolate – yum!
Chocolate and mint or chocolate and orange. I can almost taste the brownies just looking at them!
chocolate and hazelnuts
chocolate and nuts
Mint
I love chocolate mint
Chocolate and mint
Milk chocolate although if its chocolatey I’ll eat anything!
chocolate and mint
Love chocolate & honeycomb mmmm
Chocolate and orange
just plain old chocolate for me
Chocolate and caramel
Chocolate and caramel
I love white chocolate!
I love half milk chocolate with half white chocolate ^_^
Chocolate with chilli
milk chocolate with caramel
chocolate, fruit and nut
chcocolate and peanut butter
*Chocolate* even!!