to feel very very very miffed with all the choc companies that they cannot make anything nice with dark chocolat apart from, ermmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.......................

[psychomum5]

plain old dark chocolate.

I mean....

how hard surely could it be to make say.....

whispa's out of dairy free dark chocolate

or curly wurlys (well, I know it is harder as caramel is made from milk too, but still)

or flakes

or minstrals

or revels

I am just feeling very left out by all the 'yaying' about the return of whispas, and the fact that if I feel like some chocolate and go to buy some I have a grand choice of two, yes two different bars, and they are not even different, just different makes.

oh, and one make is nestle, so how bloody mean is that........

you lot all get a choice of 100+ different types of yummy choc, and I get stuck with G&B, which altho lovely, is boring day after day after day.

I want choice goddamnit, and I want a whispa.

Bet you'd have liked mine! My UO and I did a party together then went back to her house where our husbands were waiting. We decided to finish off the chocolates, couldn't let them waste! We had about 6 punnets (I packed them nicely in Strawberry punnets for my parties) and were slaughtered when we finished around 2am! Our poor husbands were shattered and we were buzzing from the party and alcoholic chocolate willies.

Thornton's have a few milk-free chocs: choc gingers and two kinds of mints I think.

ok, so all you that suggested vegan choc, and also suggested that it may be got from a health food store, THANKYOU.

I went to one yesterday morning and they had hazelnut nougat ones. Not what I might chose normally I admit but the salesguy said that it was more puree nougat rather than nutty pieces (IYGWIM), so I got one to see.

YUMMY

I will need to go back get more!

I am not a lover of coconut tho, so still just the one choice if I was in a shop (excepting the bars of just basic chocolate), but I at least know that it is worth buying some boxes direct now.

Thorntons will be checked out. I had no idea they had started doing milk-free. I put a complaint into their customer services last year about it (a nice complaint. more to bring them aware of it regarding childrens choc as my little ones are lactose intolerant). I would be thrilled if they had actually listened.

gigglewitch and thumbwitch, thankyou both....you have looked hard for me.

mollycherry......thankyou too. maltesers would be lovely if they made them

and tinkerbells mum....I used to do that too for a very brief time, choc willies were my speciality (I still make them for all my friends on hen-nights). I did actually make some the last time by using G&B maya godl, but reading the post from thumbwitch might mean that option now out.

heyho.....will do vegan choices for now!

I used to do life sized ones that were about 500g of chocolate, my customers went mad for them! I'd end up making some to sell that had been ordered before I got there and then I'd have some as prizes life size for the big prizes and small ones for game prizes. I had about 20 different recipes from solid chocolate to alcoholic ones (I wasn't stingy with alcohol either as you've probably already guessed!) They were really easy to make and can be made with any mould - I'm feeling a little now that I don't have my book anymore! You could make loads up at the weekends and have a nice selection in the fridge ready.

wow, life sized ones hey.

who did you model them on......

Had a mould lol. It was always funny watching women trying to eat them because there was no polite way to do it!

There are SO SO many gorgeous dark chocolates out there.
I don't eat milk products and have certainly not given up chocolate.
Of course these are rarely to be found in the newsagents - you may have to go to Waitrose.
But Green and Blacks are fairly well distributed and there are some fab ones dark and almond a particular fave of mine.
My chocolate shelf well stacked with G&B, Roccoco (choc and cardamom), Belvetti - all sorts.
You just have to buy in bulk when you see it

oops - missed the whole G&B debate.
Well I never knew that....

Roccoco???? I didn't realise they had some dairy free ones! I live very near to a Roccoco shop. Yum!