How will you be celebrating World Chocolate Day this year? Here at The Chocolate Emporium, we don’t need a special day to celebrate all things chocolate, but as World Chocolate Day falls on 7 July each year, we thought we would mark the occasion with some little known and sometimes whacky facts about this most revered sweet treat. We all know the fact that chocolate comes from the seed of the tropical Theobroma Cacao tree and Cacao has been cultivated for at least three millennia and grows in Mexico, Central America, and Northern South America, but here are some facts...

We’re pleased to be able to bring you the NEW Salted Caramel Millk Chocolate Lindor from Lindt, which was recently launched in the UK, to the enormous delight of the great British chocolate lover.   The sweet and salty combination of caramel and chocolate has long been a pleasurable taste phenomenon and is one of the most popular flavours across our whole range.  People generally like the sweet sensation of chocolate because it brings pleasure and comfort, but topped with a subtle sprinkle of salt, it stimulates the taste buds to create an even more pleasurable experience! This is the...

Well, according to new data, Chocolate and Vodka! There’s been an inevitable increase in online shopping as lots of shoppers are switching from traditional buying methods, mostly through necessity as people are self-isolating, but also because a lot of high street shops selling these items have not been allowed to open at all! Now we’re all getting more savvy to ordering online, it appears that 40% of us are doing more online shopping – up from just 16% at the beginning of lockdown. Buying stuff we only ever bought in high street stores, another third of us are turning to...

Only the best is good enough for your Mum this Mother’s Day, so celebrate this special day by saying 'I love you' with her favourite chocolates. Mother’s Day (or any other day for that matter) gives us a chance to celebrate our Mums, but the date changes every year in the UK, so we can sometimes get caught out! This year, Mother’s Day falls on Sunday 22 March, on the fourth Sunday of Lent in 2020, which is exactly three weeks before Easter Sunday, which is on 12 April. Why do we celebrate Mothering Sunday in the UK? The earliest...