Very Popular British Chocolates

It is very common for a U.K. citizen to sit by “the telly” with a  box of chocolates. Beech’s is a popular manufacture of these boxed chocolates. Unlike selections of chocolate or variety packs, these boxes will contain chocolates that are all the same.. such as brazil nuts covered with chocolates, or coffee creams. Chocolates filled with lime cream or rose cream are also popular.

Chocolate roses are an old British favorite. The  company Cadbury makes these cute chocolate miniatures in cute Chinese take- out style cartons. Roses are such a British motif; they grow in every garden.

Chocolates filled with whiskey are also very popular in England. Gardner is a company that makes chocolates filled with Edradour, Gardiners or Tomatin (which are all superior whiskey brands).Boxes of fudge are also sold everywhere and combining fudge with fruit is also a popular novelty. Gardiners also makes fudge that is infused with blueberries and cranberries.

Many Londoners also eat Cadbury chocolate éclair rolls which are coin shaped candies with a hard outer casing and a fluffy dark chocolate center.

Nestle also has the same types of products we see in America only packaged a bit differently. For instance you can buy Nestle Giant Pink Smarts in a tube. A Nestle product particular to England is called “Walnut Whip” This are small chocolate cones that look like little ice cream cones and that are filled with a fluffy cream and topped with walnuts.

You can also buy cartons of Nestle Quality street chocolate collections that include flavors like Chocolate Toffee Deluxe, Chocolate Orange Crème, Hazelnut Éclair and Chocolate Hazelnut Éclair.

There are also some very bizarre chocolate bars in Britain. One is the Quiggins chocolate covered marzipan bar with rum and rains.  Another is the Simpkins orange and lime hard candies with chocolate centers.   Dark chocolate marzipan chocolates made in the shape of fruits are also common in Britain; Beech’s is a company that makes quite a few chocolate and marzipan treats that are molded into novelty shapes.

Another unusual treat comes from the Scottish Highlands and is called Gaelic Coffee Fudge.  Gardiners of Scotland makes a quality version of this pale colored fudge which is made from a heritage Scottish home recipe.

You canals buy Walker’s milk chocolate toffee in 100 mg. The fun of eating this is that it comes with its own little hammer that is used to shatter the hard toffee into pieces before you eat it.