CHOC Chick Review: June 2017
CHOC Chick Founder Galia Orme’s, early childhood memories of making and eating chocolate in South America, have taken her on a passionate journey creating the CHOC Chick brand, that focuses on promoting a pure chocolate in its raw state, for everyone to enjoy. CHOC Chick’s yummy easy-to-use homemade chocolate kits contain raw cacao considered a “super food”, are gluten free, dairy free and have a low glycemic index. Also, CHOC Chick is soil association organic certified and their ingredients are free from dairy, soya and gluten.
Galia’s chocolatey CHOC Chick kits have scooped up various awards, being highly commended in the 2016 healthy living awards, highly commended in the superfoods Free from food awards 2016, platinum award winner in the 2016 Janey loves awards, to name just a few. The company has seen continued growth with retailers such as Holland & Barrett, Whole Foods Market, John Lewis Food Halls, Harvey Nichols, Ocado, Planet Organic and Infinity Foods, all getting on board this choctastic journey.
Galia visited Ecuador in 2011 and 2016 to directly meet with her cacao suppliers to source the finest sustainable, single origin cacao, as the origin of their ingredients is of key importance to the brand, as they ensure that they are ethically and responsibly sourced in line with their Social and Environmental Policy. To ensure traceability, they work with Cofina in Ecuador, a Rainforest Alliance certified company, that organises the collection and production of the single origin cacao we source.
Working with cooperatives of family farms CHOC Chick uses the national bean of Ecuador; single origin Nacional Arriba Fino de Aroma bean, that is renowned for its floral and fruity notes and has existed in Ecuador since Inca, Aztec and Mayan times. Provided with both the chocolate making kit and mandarin hot chocolate, it was exciting to taste the flavours of Ecuador’s national bean. The hot chocolate was deliciously divine, topped off with cream and a simple mandarin, this made for a perfect chocolatey sipper. The chocolate kit was easy to use and allowed you to get creative. I decided to create some sensational simple chocolates finished of with a variety of different toppings.
Thank you for reading 😊
Melanie xx
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01273 468613
info@chocchick.com
Ahh this sounds like chocolate heaven! I am currently travelling South East Asia and one thing I miss so much is chocolate haha. When I’m home I am going to have to look this up! x
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Deffo do lovely, so good and was a fab activity to make the chocs myself 🙂 x
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Galia sounds very hands on with her product which is always good. The hot chocolate sounds divine Mmmm 😍
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100% agree on that point, I loved that too. It was lush lovely 🙂 x
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I love chocolates a lot and knowing CHOC Chick is gluten free and has low glycemic index sounds so good.Nice review!
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Me too and Thank you for the fab feedback hun 🙂 x
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This chocolate kit will surely make everything easier.
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Yes, very easy choc making 🙂 x
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Love the look of this chocolate kit – the ones you made look fab! x
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Aw thanks hun, they taste great and sadly have now all gone lol 🙂 x
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I love companies who make it a focus to ensure their products are responsibly sourced. You’ve given me an excuse to buy chocolate here 🙂
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Haha…love that comment! I need no excuse…just off to go and buy some now lol 🙂 x
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I don’t either to be fair! Chocolate all day 🙂 x
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🙂 🙂 Agree totally x
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This looks and sounds like a fab product, love to hear the GF brands coming through too!
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100% Yes, totally agree : x
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ooo i haven’t heard of this before but it sounds delish! I’m looking for a new raw cacao powder and will look into this
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Ooo well these are deffo worth a whirl hun 🙂 x
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oh, my I haven’t heard of this but now I want !! mmm do love chocolate 🙂
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Mmm indeedy, these were lovely 🙂 x
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It looks so delicious! I bet it tastes even better than it looks! 🙂
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Haha yes, yes, yes so scrummy 🙂 x
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I think Galia’s on to a winner here, I know I’d love to try a pack!
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I could not agee more 🙂 x
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These sounds pretty special!! I love that you made little chocs with different toppings!
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They were lovely – aw thank you for the lovely feedback hun : x
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I’m a huge fan of hot chocolate and the hot chocolate here sounds (and looks) amazing!
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You would love I – so tasty 🙂 x
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It’s great to be introduced to ethical brands and even more great to see hands on owners!
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Agree and agree hun 🙂 x
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This looks lovely! I adore companies with ethics and a strong identity like this one. Rushing straight to John Lewis to stock up on some chocolate making kits :-O x
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Completley agree – Love your style! 🙂 x
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What a great ‘free from’ brand! No wonder they have won so many awards. Sounds like a great way to indulge in a treat! A good healthy alternative x
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Mmmm who doesn’t I love chocolates and I like how CHOC Chick is gluten free that’s definility a plus! Awesome review!!
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Aw thank you for such fab feedback – they were awesome 🙂 x
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Ooh this chocolate sounds divine. May have to pick some up for my mum who is gluten free
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Good stuff – she will love this then 🙂 x
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I hadn’t heard of choc chick before so thank you for introducing it to me! Also, how amazing do all of Galia’s products look? She clearly is someone who takes great pride in producing a wonderful product, and to be working with all those high profile brands… just fabulous!
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My pleasure. Totally agree, the ones I tried were lush. I totally agree…an amazing brand 🙂 x
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What a wonderful review! I’m always so delighted when people discover and love CHOC Chick cacao as much as I do. It’s why I started my business, to enable anyone who loves chocolate to enjoy cacao and home made raw chocolates that are actually good for us, good for the farmers we work with and good for the planet. Thank you so much for the review and the lovely comments. Lots of love and chocolate, Galia xx
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Aw Galia, thank you for tis awesome feedback, clearly straight from the heart and with true passion. I could not agree more, I loved this brand collaboration. Lots of Love and Chocolate back Melanie 🙂 xx
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I absolutely love sweets especially Chocolates and Ice Cream! These Galia’s chocolatey CHOC Chick kits sounds really awesome.
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Me too Angela! They were awesome – loved them 🙂 x
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Ooh I haven’t heard of this before but cooking with chocolate has got very popular x
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YEs, it is deffo he in thing an thes were fab quality 🙂 x
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oh ive never heard of this but it sounds lovely and im always cooking with chocolate so will def give it a try!
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Well this is deffo worth a whirl hun…enjoy 🙂 x
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