The Great Chocolate Cake Off: And the winner is…

Monday 7th November

This year’s Chocolate Unwrapped culminated in the Great Chocolate Cake Off - Chocolate Week’s search for the ultimate chocolate cake - and what a competition it was!

Nervous entrants arrived with their friends and families to drop off their cakes before spending the day at the show, enjoying the chocolate on offer and waiting anxiously for the Final, when the top five cakes would be revealed. Entrants travelled from as far as Wales, Manchester and Southampton with their cakes, which…

Thorntons unveils record breaking chocolate bar

Wednesday 12th October

Combining the company’s centenary and Chocolate Week celebrations, Thorntons has created the world’s largest chocolate bar, weighing in at a staggering 5,792.5kg (that’s almost six tonnes!). The bar is made in Thorntons’ special recipe milk chocolate, measures four metres wide by four metres long and is the equivalent of 75,000 Thorntons Chocolate Blocks.

The previous record of 5,529.29kg was held by an American confectioner, who broke the record just last month. Not to be outdone…

The Great Chocolate Cake-Off

Wednesday 28th September

Here at Chocolate Week we’re on the hunt to taste the greatest amateur chocolate cake.

The competition is open to all home bakers, for you to submit your ultimate chocolate cake and for it to be judged on Sunday 16th October at Chocolate Unwrapped. In return for all your hard work every entrant will receive free entry to the show (£10 on the door).

The winner will receive signed copies of the judges’ books, a trophy and the honour of having their recipe published on the…

Rococo announce their Chocolate Week events

Monday 26th September

Chocolate shop Rococo Chocolate is throwing a whole host of exciting events during this year’s Chocolate Week, ensuring there are chocolate activities for all the family to enjoy.

How about starting the week as you mean to go on, with a luxury three-course dinner at Hardy’s Brasserie on 10th October, featuring a savoury and sweet menu based on recipes taken from Rococo founder, Chantal Coady’s ‘Real Chocolate’.  Or for something a little bit different, there’s an Extreme…

Cooking with Chocolate book launch

Friday 16th September

A plethora of chocolate books are being launched this year, we’re very much looking forward to William Curley’s Couture Chocolate and this encyclopedia of chocolate is also going to be a must have. ‘Cooking with Chocolate’ has been created by eight pastry chefs at the Ecole du Grand Chocolat - Valrhona’s chocolate schools in France and Tokyo with contributions from lots of experts and top pastry chefs including a forward by Pierre Herme. Eight great names from the…