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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Deborah Williams says
White Chocolate vanilla swirl
Alisa Moore says
Praline
Denise s says
white chocolate and raspberry
Dave Edwards says
Anything minty!!
Hannah Smith says
My favourite is dark chocolate and strawberry cream
Isabelle Smith says
orange
clare leahy says
im a praline girl 🙂 or salted caramel 😀
Joanna Sawka says
coconut flavour
cathyj says
milk chocolate
Joanne Homer says
I love strawberry creme in dark chocolate.
Hazel Rea says
Dark chocolate (85%) truffle.
William Gould says
Chocolate covered caramel!
Amy Ripley says
Plain Chocolate with Orange – mmm!!!!!
Diana Semionova says
Strawberry cream :}
Chantal says
Praline – love nuts because I’m nutty myself 🙂
jayne underwood says
chocolate caramel x
Susan says
I love chocolate with any nuts
Georgia McAllister says
Any chocolate with caramel
laura hadland says
Cherry and dark chocolate
Mark Johnson says
DARK Chocolate and Orange
Karen says
I love chocolate with chilli
Antonia Rookley says
I love praline!
Leigh Larkin says
Milk chocolate with any kind or fruit or truffle filling. As long as it isn’t nutty – I’m a fan!
Emily Jane Nelson says
White Chocolate vanilla swirl! X
hayley says
salted caramel
Joanne says
I love white chocolate and raspberry
Judith eddington says
i love strawberry creams
Wendy Tolhurst says
I love nuts and milk chocolate
ClairejB says
I love Violet & rose creams. Yum 🙂
Victoria says
mmm orange cream or raspberry cream…ooh i had apple in dark chocolate once which was delicious!
Julie Guy says
I love Turkish Delight.
Claire Appleton says
Chocolate Orange
Rachel Blackburn says
Choclate caramels
Faye Lester says
White Chocolate
James Aspey says
raspberry and milk
Amanda Wakefield says
Butterscotch
Jennifer Rhymer says
I love Raspberry creams but any soft centre is my favourite
Maria Jane Knight says
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!
Jackie ONeill says
hazelnut caramel
Hannah says
Salted caramel and milk chocolate!
Natalie Henderson says
Salted Caramel!!
charlotte r says
milk chocolate and caramel
katie thomas says
I love caramel centres – yum 🙂
kay adeola says
mint chocolate once i start eating it i cant stop most of all after eights lol
Gary Martindale says
Truffle with Hazelnut
Paula Phillips says
White chocolate
Paul Witney says
Any chocolate and nut combination
Michelle Becker says
Salted Caramel
Jamie Walker says
White chocolate and raspberry 🙂
Emma Smith says
I love dark chocolate with coffee filling
Jenny Rogers says
Orange cream
Jonathan Reed says
i love chilli chocolate
sarah fleck says
white choc with a runny strawberry center 🙂
Deborah Bird says
I love chocolate praline x
Jayne Sullivan says
Caramel ( preferably one of the hard, chewy ones )
Pam says
2 of my favourites are Turkish Delight and any coffee flavoured chocolates.
Pamela Gossage says
Turkish delight is my favourite
Sarah Red says
Hazlenut pralines are my fave 🙂
SarahSarah Re says
Hazlenut pralines are my fave 🙂
Chris Bell says
Mmmmmm definately a sticky runny caramel!
Victoria Smith says
Turkish delight is my favourite
Nick Hopkins says
Strawberry creams
Alison says
I love Praline
Sharon V. says
Chocolate with soft caramel centres
Jayne K says
Turkish delight covered in milk chocolate
James Holyland says
Rum n raisin
Helen Aiken says
I love truffles, especially fruity ones.
Kelly Hooper says
hmm think it would have to be caramel
Sheri Darby says
I love dark chocolate truffles
Jen @ BlueKitchenBakes says
Anything boozy!
Christine Mutter says
Milk choc strawberry creams mmmmmm
Annamarie Riddiford says
choc orange
Deborah Wheeler says
Mint chocolate
Sue Warr says
Or…….Chocolate and Ginger!
Sue Warr says
Chocolate and praline!!
Melanie Gardiner says
Chocolate and chilli – particularly in fudge cake. Yummy
shell says
White chocolate does it for me
Beky Austerberry says
I like turkish delight and chocolate
Kate says
I LOVE Hotel Chooclat! Visited a store in London. Would love to win this one! I love salted caramel and dark chocolate!
Aimee R says
Salt & caramel
Helen says
Mint chocolate is my favourite, especially crispy mint rather than fondant
Lese says
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
Katie says
My fave is soft caramel with or without nuts. Yum!
Samantha Atherton says
I like really dark chocolate
Andrew Halliwell says
Mint and dark chocolate.
Mickie Bull says
White Chocolate Creams
Celia West says
White chocolate truffle
Tracy Hughes says
Turkish Delight or Marzipan
Kristian says
Milk Chocolate with Orange
Janet Bagnall says
Chocolate and hazelnut
Farhana Haque says
Plain milk chocolate for me
Ann Moore says
I just love dark chocolate and orange.
Rosie says
white chocolate and Raspberry
Jen Smith says
This sounds and looks wonderful.
Matt Hudson says
Chocolate and honeycomb
katrina walsh says
I love chocolate with gooey caramel inside. I noticed they never seem to do caramel in white chocolate tho 🙁
Emily Fraser says
Salted caramel! 🙂
Christina Curtis says
Strawberry Soft Centre!
Jesse Partington says
Dark chocolate with mint.
denise cross says
strawberry creams
Shelley Jessup says
I am addicted to dark orange chocolate, it’s heavenly!
Dawn F says
Peanut Butter and chocolate!
Cheryll H says
I love raspberry with dark chocolate so rich and intense 🙂
Megan Davies says
I love coffee creams
Karen Richards says
Strawberry cream
Stacie Pook says
Coffee chocolate, mmmm.
Susan Ellams says
peanut butter and dark chocolate
Natasha G says
I like chocolate with nuts – yum!
Jay Scales says
I love salted caramels – the combination of sweet and salt is sooo yummy!
Jenny says
Mint and chocolate .. mmmmmmm!
funkiichiicka says
I like pralines.
Lynn Blakeman says
I love a nice quality lemon mousse
Emma T says
It’s got to be mint & chocolate for me.
Laura Baker says
My husband would choose the Amaretto Marzipan ones too! I’m a Caramel Praline girl all the way 🙂
Emma J Lowe says
i love a nice nutty praline chocolate
shane weir says
Any alcoholic truffle.
Leanne Court says
White Chocolate
Christine Caple says
Chocolate mint creams are my favourite
Brian Stabler says
Any alcoholic truffle.
Julie Picton says
Love salted caramel
Lynsey Buchanan says
Strawberry creams in milk chocolate
Greig spencer says
chocolate honeycomb, mmmm yummy
Leanne Lunn says
Chcolate and honeycomb
Rebecca U says
Love raspberry and dark chocolate or praline 🙂 c
Maggie Coates says
Strawberry cream
christina brown says
strawberry liqueur 🙂
ali mckenzie says
rum and raisin chocolate
NATALIE GOATLEY says
mint chocolate
Rebecca Phillips says
coffee cream, i’m drooling just thinking about them!
jemma price says
caremel mmmmm so good
Aimee Wright says
I love all chocolate! But especially truffles.
Ian Campbell says
Anything with a soft centre, preferably caramel 🙂
Anne-Marie Large says
Chocoate caramel. Mmmm!
Deborah P says
White chocolate and lemon
Alison says
I really like Chocolate Fudge
Val Swift says
Chocolate creams
Natasha Corder says
I love mint chocolate!
Jill Webb says
Coffee cream as long as its not to sweet
foz says
Milk chocolate and praline…an amazing combination.
justine meyer says
Mint and dark chocolate
Suzanne Cooke says
I love strawberry creams, yum.
Rachel Sanders says
Dark chcocolate is my favourite.
Jac K says
Hotel Chocolate Salted Pralines are my favourite
amanda lewis says
anything dark and crunchy
Rachael G says
Milk chocolate and Hotel Chocolat caramel chocolate.
Helen-Marie says
Milk Chocolate and Caramel
Sally Carter says
I prefer soft centres and my favourite is coffee cream in a plain chocolate case.
Sally Poole says
white chocolate and raspberry
conrad edwards says
Like Scrat, anything with a nut..so hazelnut
jennifer thorpe says
caramels
Amanda Oakley says
Salted caramel!
Paula Green says
White chocolate and raspberry
sarah lambert says
I luv strawberry cream in dark choc Yumm just the thought of it makes my mouth drewl lol 🙂
Xx
shaheen says
Chocolate and violet cream or rose cream
Rachael Lines says
Choc and coffee.. Yummy!! <3
Emma Jackson says
Praline x
Katherine Coldicott says
Love cherries covered with dark chocolate
Su Tyler says
Dark choc, the more bitter the better!
Tink Rhonda Lee Mse says
Anything with a praline centre, as long as it’s not dark chocolate.
Joanne B says
oooh – I love raspberry souffle style chocs or Lemon flavours (salivating at the thought!)
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Hollie Adlam says
White chocolate and raspberry!!! xoxo
Ellie says
My favourite is salted caramel.
James Shaw says
milk chocolate!
Ursulab says
caramel
Susie Clayton says
Macadamia Paste. Hotel Chocolat did them in a selectin box at one time. I utterly fell in love with it.
CHRISTINE ANDREWS says
BAILEYS LIQUEUR CHOCOLATES
FionaLynne Edwards says
I love Caramel and Milk Chocolate – yummy!
Julie Davies says
My all time favourites are dark chocolate cherry liqueurs
Sharon Griffin says
strawberry cream
Lisa Pepper says
strawberry or orange cream chocolates
Lesley-Ann Dunn says
I love fruity flavours and turkish delight
Solange says
Hazelnut praline
Kieran says
Orange creme
Anne-Marie Taylor says
I love anything with nuts – the Salted Praline sounds gorgeous!
Louise Smith says
Chocolate Salted Caramels
Joanne says
dark chocolate and coffee
Claire Smith says
Chocolate and marzipan
Rey says
Caramel praline. Love love love anything with caramel
Alison Joyce says
Milk chocolate and nuts
Fiona Smith says
Chocolate and strawberry
Ste Appleton says
I love coffee flavour, luckily no one else in my house likes them, bonus!
paula burnside says
Ive yet to meet a chocolate that I dont like but my absolute favourite is Praline.
Sarah Mcknight says
Chocolate praline
Choclette says
Nothing has yet beaten salted caramel, but I’m open to offers 😉
Marcus Cunningham says
caramel and milk chocolate
Amanda Hurst says
Any fruit cream….to match my fruity personality or a nut one for my Nutty Husband 🙂
Alison Wakefield says
I love Praline
Natalie Phillips says
coffee flavoured chocolate
Krzysia says
Milk chocolate with pistachio 🙂
Jo Jones says
Milk chocolate with a marzipan centre.
anthony harrington says
dark chocolate and orange – yum!
liz denial says
I love Hotel Chocolat’s chilli chocolate
Caroline H says
Marzipan and dark chocolate!
Catherine Sinead Mary Reynolds says
I love strawberry and chocolate combo, or things like terrys chocolate orange <3
Laura says
Milk Chocolate with Praline Centre
Melissa Manning says
Fave chocolate? After Eights!
laura banks says
dark chocolates and nuts
hannah oneill says
Dark Chocolate with nuts
Zoe G says
I love choc with honeycomb, it is so moreish
Paul Rogers says
Dark Chocolate and Bitter Orange my favourite Choc
Charley Foulds says
love chocolate orange!!!!
Charlotte Ingham says
I love strawberry creams!
Nicola Biven says
Dark chocolate and strawberry simply delicious !
Lisa Williams says
salted caramel yum!
Wendy Lam says
I love the combination of white chocolate and hazelnut. I’m just sad not many places have it….
Barbara Webster says
My favourite chocolate combination is Hazelnut and Caramel 🙂
Jane Adair says
Dark chocolate and coffee ….. a match made in heaven x
Angela sandhu says
Milk chocolate and caramel
margaret says
chocolate truffles
Lucy robinson says
Mint chocolate.
C Hui says
Mint chocolate
Alan C says
Anything with hazelnuts
Joanne Mapp says
I love orange creams. There is nothing quite like the bitter sweet taste of dark chocolate and a creamy orange filling
jane Colwill says
Dark chocolate and Raspberry
Maxine says
dark chocolate and marzipan
Amy hobbs says
Strawberry Cream
Tracey Belcher says
Chocolate and Cherry
Stephen Lui says
any thing with milk chocolate is heaven
Laura Harris says
Milk choc and praline….heaven. Also love truffles, caramel, nuts……anything with choc really!
Tracey Peach says
White Chocolate With A lemon Filling
Phil Darling says
Soft Caramel for me – my teeth aren’t what they used to be
Fiona says
Milk chocolate praline with walnuts
sandra rubery says
strawberry creme for me
Andrea MacLeod says
Orange cream
Janice Davison says
Milk tuffle in white chocolate
Allison Van der vliet says
White chocolate and Vanilla
Mark Whittaker says
Dark chocolate truffles mmmm
happy rainbow says
my favourite chocolates are milk chocolate truffles
Andy D says
Amaretto Marzipan
tracy says
My favourite are praline though I love just about all milk or white chocolate.
Susan says
chocolate honeycomb yum
Beverley says
Hotel Chocolat truffles – they are divine! I could slap my granny for them!
Simon C says
Love Strawberry or Orange Creams.
Simon.
Kirsty Fox says
Chocolate and honeycomb go together very well, yum!
Erin S says
Dark chocolate and violet cream
melanie stirling says
Milk and white chocolate ,mmmmmmmmm!!
anna says
i like all types of choc! but my fave is with nuts
claire woods says
I like fillings to be coconut or caramel. Once had Chilli chocolate, which was delicious.
Lynn Fancy says
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!
Amanda Richardson says
Salty Caramel
heather smith says
strawberry cremes
olivia kirby says
white chocolate with coconut
Corina says
I love any type of praline.
hazel rigazio says
chocolate orange is divine,invited friends to your blog
Gill says
Recently I’ve started to enjoy good liqueur chocolates. However, I’m still rather hung up on HCs gingerbread truffle from Christmas
Amy Burgwin says
Strawberry cream, mmm…
Tracy K Nixon says
Milk chocolate and nuts – yummy!
Maz T says
Strawberry cream
Heather T says
Dark chocolate caramel or toffee
Martina says
any fruit and nut chocolate
Mel Briscoe says
I love mint chocolate.
Ali Thorpe says
I don’t have a favourite brand but I’m particularly drawn to dark chocolate with praline, raspberry, cherry or orange. Yum!
jo hutchinson says
raspberry and milk chocolate
Helen Dickinson says
Chocolate Truffle!
helen battle says
DARK CHOCOLATE WITH MARZIPAN FILLING
ashleigh says
Anything with caramel! Love pretty much all chocolate though!
Stephanie Armstrong says
Love all Hotel chocolate – they can’t put a foot wrong for me.
VERONICA BUTT says
Amaretto Marzipan – delicious
Judith Allen says
I like so many, but at the moment, mint. Loving that new mint kitkat, and After Eights, and Bendicks of course.
Geraldine O'Gorman says
Mint Chocolate..yummmmm
Romana Richards says
White chocolate and raspberry
Ben Audsley says
milk chocolate!
Elaine says
orange creme
J Seaman says
Mint Chocolate, sooo addictive
sue walsh says
Caramel Praline ..to die for:)