Butlers Hot Chocolate

Butlers is very common back in Ireland where I come from, and I am a big fan of their hot chocolate. Thick, creamy and really chocolatey with no powdery taste or bitter aftertaste, I was really dissapointed to discover nothing comes close to the taste over here. In a Butlers cafe there is always a big vat of molten chocolate, and if you order a hot chocolate a big ladlefull of this is spooned into your cup, and topped up with hot, frothy milk. The at home hot chocolate involves dropping a solid chocolate lump in the shape of a cup into a pan of hot milk, and stiring while it dissolves to stop it sticking or burning. The box also suggests using a ...  Read the complete review

I have mixed feelings about Butlers chocolates in general - I have tasted many of their products, and I love some of them, and am not so keen on others. So, it was with interest that I tried this new product. It has only just become available here in Ireland, I am not sure you can buy it in the UK as yet. First things first - the box itself is very attractive. It is a rich chocolatey brown colour with the Butlers logo in gold, and a photo of a pair of hands holding a teacup with a delicious looking chocolate drink in the cup, and a piece of the chocolate that you find inside dropping into the drink. Looks very yummy and inviting!! When you open the box, ...  Read the complete review

I am a chocolate lover. I like eating and drinking chocolate but I do not consider myself to be a chocoholic or 'chocolate-knowledgeable' but rather. as a consumer who knows exactly how to distinguish between the cheap soapy chocolate and the first-class chocolate! I only drink hot chocolate in winter when the weather is really chilly and in these days the temperature is dropping significantly; it's not like the UK (the temperature is around 5-10 degrees) but for us it's windy and freezing cold and my limps are completely frozen. Therefore, I usually go for something to warm me up and tastes superior as well, hot chocolate always to the rescue. I tried ...  Read the complete review