REVIEW & GIVEAWAY / HOLDSWORTH CHOCOLATES
I can still remember the first time I tried ‘proper chocolate’. How it melted in my mouth and I didn’t want the taste to end.
Don’t get me wrong, I still like and enjoy a cheap bar of chocolate like the rest of us from time to time, but when it comes to luxury and indulgence, the quality stuff is really where it’s at. And this fine chocolate, I’m about to tell you about, is right up there with the best of them. I was recently invited to try out some exquisite handmade chocolates from Holdsworth Chocolates and boy, are they good!
The company has been creating luxurious handmade chocolates since 1988 from it’s base in Bakewell, Derbyshire. The family business, which was started by mum Barbara, has since been passed on to daughter Genevieve and still prides itself on creating beautiful, world class chocolates.
The first thing that struck me, and will strike you too, is the beautiful packaging in which the chocolates are lovingly housed. It’s all just so, so incredibly pretty. Like the chocolates themselves, you can tell much love and thought has gone into the design and just to give you an idea of how special the packaging is, Elsie begged me to keep all of the boxes for her! (And who could blame her? Just look at them!)
Now in my house, it’s probably fair to say, we all love a good chocolate or too. But we’re also pretty picky and not the easiest to impress. But my, oh my, Holdsworth chocolates certainly knocked our choosy socks off. They are, and I don’t say this lightly, absolutely lip-smackingly delicious.
For purposes of this review, we were sent numerous boxes and packets of chocolates to try out (best job in the world?! Quite possibly!) and naturally we took this job and responsibility very seriously. We even roped in some members of my extended family to try out this incredible milk chocolate selection with us too and it’s safe to say this lovely box didn’t last long!
All the chocolates we tried and tested were loved and thoroughly enjoyed, even including the dark chocolate ones, which is the kind of chocolate I normally wouldn’t choose and the flavours are truly divine. Holdsworth Chocolates really do create luxurious chocolates for everyone. Traditionalists will adore the ‘Nothing But Milk Chocolate’ collection, those with a taste for the finer things in life will be bowled over by the Champagne Truffles and for the more adventurous, the Milk Chocolate Banoffee & Chilli Truffles will definitely impress.
As for our favourite? Well, our vote as a family was magnaminous. For us, it has to be the Milk Chocolate Sea Salt Caramel Truffles which are quite simply, the BEST CHOCOLATES I’VE EVER EATEN!
So good, we had to divide them up equally, to save arguments (!) and so adored, I’m just about to put an order in for Christmas so that both my husband and daughter will find them under the tree on Christmas Day.
If you’re a chocolate lover or know anyone who is, do yourself a favour and treat yourself to some Holdsworth Chocolates too. I promise you, you will not, for a second, regret it and if you’re struggling to find someone a Christmas present this year, well trust me, Holdsworth chocolates will make the perfect gift.
Exclusive Reader Giveaway!
Oh you lucky people! The lovely team at Holdsworth Chocolates have kindly offered to give away a box of their delicious chocolates. To win this incredible Indulgence Collection Cube, worth £40, simply follow the instructions below. Good luck!
I love italian pizza with tomato and cheese
Dark chocs for me!
Love a lasagne
I love lasagne with lots of garlic bread x
champagne truffles
Champagne Truffles without a doubt!
absolutely champagne truffles :) perfect treat for Christmas x
champagne truffles :)
Champagne Truffles
The sea salt caramel truffles!
I like any kind of truffles…or really any kind if chocolate!
The sea salt caramel truffles sound fab
Dark chocolate Jamaican Rum truffles , a dark chocolate ganache truffle made using Jamaican Rum
Dark chocolate
Oooh, I’ve trued Holdsworth before from my local Booths. They are very good. A reliable producer. Not always the most innovative flavours, but always well made and perfectly executed.
Has to be the champagne truffles
Champagne truffles sound lush
The Champagne truffles are just awesome
Milk Chocolate Banoffee Truffles sound absolutely amazing! What a fab flavour combo!
Never tried this brand so would be amazing to win this prize!
milk chocolate
the sea salted caramels
i love truffles chocolates …i love most chocolates from this brand
Gorgeous buttery vanilla fudge
My favourite chocolate is dark chocolate strawberry cream
Sea salted caramel
I love milk chocolate with caramel or turkish delight
Milk chocolate is my favourite type of chocolate
Truly Scrumptious Milk Chocolate Sea Salt Caramel Truffles – YUM!
Champagne truffles
The sea salt caramel but the others are also lovely.
I love a milk chocolate with nut praline.
My favourite kind of chocolate is strawberry
Champagne Truffles
Anything strawberry
I love the salted caramel chocolates!
Champagne Truffles, of course!
I like chocolate.
None as I’m allergic to milk and Chocolate gives me migraines. Still hope I win for my wife.
Champagne truffles
Sea salted caramel truffles.
The sea salt caramel Truffles! Yum.
Milk chocolate banoffee & chilli truffles
Love all chocolate but if I must choose it would be Sea Salted Caramel Truffles
Sea salt caramel truffles
Sea salt caramel truffles are my favourite
the sea salted caramels x
Champagne truffles
The Milk Chocolate Truffles
Milk chocolate banoffee & chilli truffles
sea salt caramel truffles
Sea salt caramel truffles sound nice.
strawberry cream
truffles
Champagne Truffles
Champagne Truffles
The milk chocolate and peanut butter caramels sound divine
Champagne truffles
lovely selection – my favourite would be the Champagne Truffles
Milk chocolate
Sea salt caramel!
salted caramel chocolates are my favourite
I love all chocolate
There are soooo many gorgeous chocolates that it’s really hard to talk about just one!. I do love one that does not seem to be made anymore I can’t find it anywhere, & that’s Orange Aero! I love the combination of Chocolate & orange. I wonder what happened to it?!.
Sea salt caramel truffles
I’ve never tried Holdsworth chocolate before, but I love any minty chocolate. :)
sounds lovely not tried but i would eat the Chocolate Banoffee Truffles
I’ve never tried them but I do love truffles so would love all of them no doubt ;-)
I prefer the more fruity type chocolate – strawberry, banoffee, etc, Husband prefers truffles.
Sea salt caramel truffles
Snickers bar
Champagne Truffles
SEA SALT
Milk Chocolate Banoffee Truffles I love anything banoffee
I love all sort of chocolate, especially when it’s wrapped around caramel or toffee!
sea salt caramel truffles x
Ooh these look so amazing! If you mean my favourite from the box would be the dark chocolate lemon cream I think. If you mean “normal” favourite at the moment it’s toffee crisp!
At the moment I have a bit of a thing for Sea Salt Caramel Truffles
I love Reeces peanut butter slices! Peanut butter and chocolate is the perfect combination.
I can’t wait to try out the Milk chocolate peanut butter & caramel truffles yum!
The Milk Chocolate Banoffee definitely.
I love praline
Champagne Truffles
The Indulgence Box look divine and i would love to taste the milk chocolate orange truffle.
Milk chocolate
not tried before, but the Christmas Pudding truffle sounds nice!
Seeing as they are the best you have ever eaten I would like to try Milk Chocolate Sea Salt Caramel Truffles
Champagne Truffles
champagne truffles sound heavenly to me!
sea salt caramel truffles
I love the Sea Salt Caramel Truffles too!!! :)
I think the milk chocolate hazelnut praline would be my favourite
The Milk Chocolate Banoffee
I like milk chocolate best, though I do like mint flavoured of all types.
The sea salt caramel
any kind of truffle chocolate gets my vote
Love Champagne truffles
These look delicious! My weakness will always be Milkybar no matter how old I get!
Always caramels!
Dark chocolate
I think I’d be the same with the sea salt caramel truffles ! I love anything with salted caramel 😍
Anything with Salted Caramel for me!
I love a good strawberry creme
The sea salt caramel truffles sound lush!
Champagne Truffles
Champagne truffles
Anything praline and chocolate covered fudge, no wonder I’m expanding
Milk Chocolate Sea Salt Caramel Truffles
I really like the sound of the Milk Chocolate Banoffee Truffles
Milk Chocolate Sea Salt Caramel Truffles are my favourite.
Orange cream
I love truffles!
Thanks for the chance – these look lovely – my fav is White chocolate Brandy butter snowballs
I love plain chocolate truffles
dark chocolate
I love orange flavour chocolates (or any chocolates really) x
Champagne Truffles
Sea salted caramel
A lovely dark and nutty truffle does it for me every time.
sea salted caramels
Any Galaxy chocolate is the best, so smooth!
Sea Salt Caramel Truffles sound very yummy!
Traditional truffles <3
Milk Chocolate Sea Salt Caramel Truffles
Probably the Marc de Champagne truffles x
I’ve just discovered a love for truffles!
Thinking of these chocolates is making me hungry already
My favourite is white chocolate brandy butter snowballs
Caramel truffles!
Milk chocolate!
Milk choc caramels – delicious
white chocolate is my fave…. so creamy
I’ve never tried Holdsworths, so I’d be excited to taste all the different flavours and find my favourite!
I usually go for some coffee chocolates but these Sea Salt Caramel Truffles sound delicious!
I love milk chocolate. I haven’t tried these before but the Banoffee and Chilli sound great.
Oooohh champagne truffles for sure!
Banoffee is delish in any form!
I love any milk chocolate, I could eat it every day .
Milk Chocolate Sea Salt Truffles are my favourite.
Toffee
i love any type of praline chocolates
Milk Chocolate Marc De Champagne truffles – as the name implies, they’re a ‘marc’ of an outstanding chocolatier! :)
The Dark chocolate Grand Marnier truffle sound divine :)
Milk chocolate banoffee or champagne or milk or dark. All of them!!!!
I love champagne truffles
I’ve not tried these before but they sound delicious! My favourite chocolate is anything by Hotel Chocolat
Sea Salted Caramel ones sound delicious
Salted caramel is my favorite
Milk chocolate sea salt truffles – yum!
Champagne truffles
sea salt and caramel truffles! I absolutely love the savoury salt with sweet caramel!
I have not tried any of them, but I think the sea salted caramel truffles would be my favourite
rum truffles are my absolute favourite
Well, after what you said, it has to be the Milk Chocolate Sea Salt Caramel Truffles :) XXX
i will eat all chocolate. except marzipan or nuts, caramel is my ultimate favourite!
The champagne truffles!
Champagne truffles
Chocolate. All chocolate, any chocolate- I’m not that discerning!
I particularly like dark choc and/or mint chocolate.
And chocolate biscuits, eaten hurriedly in the kitchen whilst hiding from my toddler…. but sssh, that’s mummy’s secret!
I like milk or dark chocolate with nuts. I think, of these, the salted caramel would win me :)
I love all chocolate – yummy
The sea salt caramel truffles looks amazing
Milk chocolate raspberry & Marc de champagne truffle sound delicious
Chocholate truffles
salted caramel chocolate! X
The Festive Truffles sound nice for the Christmas season x
Festive Truffles sound yummy
I love chocolate with nuts.
Any truffles are a weakness of mine. I have my eye on the champagne ones.
Sea salted caramels
Any really
the Milk Chocolate Sea Salt Caramel Truffles sound so yummy
Anything with Praline! I’m confused as why others are saying lasagne…
Champagne truffles!
I love boozy ones with liqueur in.
Champagne truffles!
I love milk chocolate, particularly filled with caramel
Strawberry creams
My favourite is Sea Salt Caramel Truffle
Dark chocolates are my favourite, if they contain nuts then all the better! x
Fiery stem ginger enrobed in dark chocolate is my favourite.
Sea Salt Caramel Truffles are my favourite They are so nice .
Sea salt caramel truffles
The champagne truffles sound absolutely delicious. I am sure that they would be my favourites.
Milk Chocolate Sea Salt Caramel Truffles
Sea Salt Caramel Truffles
The Peanut butter & caramel truffles sound divine. X
I love chocolate coffee truffles
Champagne Truffles
Havent tried these but love any chocolate and they look yummy
Champagne truffles :)
orange creams
The sea salted caramel chocolates would be lush, funny thing is that I won’t eat caramel chocolates unless it is salted!
My husband is a big Chilli fan so it has to be the Chilli Truffles
I can’t get enough of the Champagne Truffles! Thanks for the competition.
Champagne truffles.
Champagne Truffles are my absolute fab ☺
Sea salt caramel, thanks for the chance x
Champagne truffles
I love dark chocolate Brazil nuts.
Champagne truffles
I love any chocolate but a chocolate cherry liquor is my favourite.
champagne truffles – please pass the box
I Literally LURV choccies with sea salt and caramel – hahaha the problem is i cant stop eating them!! so delish!
Champagne truffles are lovely.
I love all chocolate 🍫 even plain if it has a delicious filling
White chocolate Brandy butter snowballs
Sea salt caramel truffles
I don’t have a favourite, love them all!
Any sort of chocolate… I just love chocolate..
soft caramel
I like vanilla truffles. Thorntons do a lovely version.
Champagne truffles – divine!
Champagne Truffles are my favourite x
Dark chocolate with either mint or ginger :)
Chocolate caramel
champagne truffles
I love dark chocolate especially truffles !
Milk Chocolate Truffles are my favourites.
has to be Milk Chocolate Banoffee
Champagne truffles mmmm
Champagne Truffles for me!
Milk Chocolate Banoffee
I love any chocolate with a strawberry filling
I like a dark chocolate mint
Champagne Truffle is my favourite!
Sea Salt caramel truffles <3
I love Champagne Truffles xx
Champagne truffles, yummy :) x
sea salt champagne truffles are so delicious:-)
I’d like to say Champagne truffles too
I’ve never tried Holdsworth Chocolates, I like the sound of the Dark chocolate lemon cream.
sea salted caramel truffles
salted caramels are my favourite!
Sea Salt Caramel Truffles
Great Prize !
champagne truffles, they always feel so decadent
Champagne truffles are my favourite!
I like any chocolate but especially dark chocolate with nuts in it!
Milk Chocolate Banoffee Truffles
I love dark chcocolate with nuts or orange
I do love any chocolate but dark chocolate and mint is a favourite
Champagne Truffels hands down!
sea salt caramel truffles. I love sweet and salty
Champagne truffle x
sea salt truffles are delicious!!
The sea salt caramel truffles x
I like anything unique like banoffee chocolates, but I also love anything with hazelnut :D
You can’t beat the taste of salted caramel .. The sea salted caramels sound divine
Champagne truffles.
Champagne Truffles
champagne truffles
The seasalt caramel sounds yummy :)
Love Marmite chocolate or anything salty.So Seasalt caramel sounds great.
Oooo always champagne truffles
Dark chocolate
Milk chocolate marc de champagne truffle
I love dark chocolate and anything fruit-flavoured too!
Champagne truffles
Any Sea Salt Caramel chocolate is good for me so the Sea Salt Caramel Truffles sound awesome!
I really like salted caramel with almonds in milk chocolate nom
the salted caramel truffles sound lovely but i do love truffles!
I love white chocolate, especially if it has coffee cream filling
Sea salted caramel are out of this world.
The Champagne truffles are always yummy
Wow, it’s hard to choose I love all chocolates, but for sheer indulgence it has to be the Champagne Truffles.
Truffles are always a favourite with their scrummy soft centres …
Milk chocolate peanut butter & caramel truffles look soo yummy xx
I love chocolate with hazelnuts
Champagne truffles
Chocolate with orange
Dark chocolate!xxx
Love treating myself to champagne truffles! Their fruit creams look gorgeous too!
sea salt caramel truffles are simply divine
The sea salt caramels sound lush.
Coffee chocolate………mmmm
Champagne truffels for me 💞
I’d love to try the Milk Chocolate Banoffee ones
Milk chocolate
Rum truffles.
I think the Sea Salted Caramel Truffles would be my favourite too, I loved salted caramel flavour :-). Yummy
Dark chocolate raspberry cream, delicious!! :)
Sea salt caramel truffles I love!
Champagne Truffles for me
I love anything with caramel in
Sea salted caramel xx
I like the sound of the dark chocolate Christmas pudding flavour.
Champagne Truffles
Has to be chilli truffles for me – sweet with a bit of a kick!
The Champagne Truffles sound delicious!
love dark chocolate
Sea salt caramel truffles for me xx
Sea salt truffles , yes please!
Sea salt caramel truffles
The Milk Chocolate Sea Salt Caramel Truffles sound out of this world!!
Truffles!
milk chocolate
The sea salt caramel truffles
Champagne Truffles
I love dark chocolates.
The milk chocolate & peanut butter!
I love sea salt truffles :)
They all look yummy but i would choose the – Milk chocolate crunchy hazelnut praline – first
I love the nutty chocolates the most.
Milk chocolate praline truffles mmmm
Champagne Truffles
The Sea Salt CAramel
Sea salted caramels.