Yahoo Finance Chocolate as a charitable act
My friend Mathew, who lives in Canada via Wales, told me about Arthouse Unlimited chocolate way back in May 2019. And then I forgot about it until I found it again in a little shop called Blue Dog in Clare in Suffolk (if you are even remotely in the vicinity it’s worth a detour, in fact the whole of Clare is), which sells all manner of lovely things. Just before Christmas, shopping in a mask and drenched in hand sanitiser, I found it, bar upon glorious bar: the wrappers are some of the best I’ve seen (Dormouse and Solkiki are exceptions).
Arthouse Unlimited is a charity bringing together various artists with complex learning and physical disabilities. They work with instructors to create artworks that they then put on tea towels, soaps and mugs. But it’s the handmade chocolate I am, of course, interested in. This is made by two UK-based chocolatiers. It’s not craft chocolate or single-origin, but every bar of milk is a minimum 40% cocoa, which I applaud. (White and dark also available.)
The flavours are slightly wild – and commendations to who writes the names, because they all sound intriguing: dark chocolate with white truffle honey, anyone? I stocked up on milks and they were soon demolished. My favourites were the ‘Dinosaurs’ milk chocolate with sea salt and crispy crunch and the ‘Blue Dogs’ (no relation to the shop) milk chocolate cheesecake with gingernut crunch (both £5.25, 100g). If you usually read this column and think: ‘Thanks, but it’s all bit artisan and dark for me, Annalisa,’ try these: you’ll love me.
