Thorntons Premium Collection

Thorntons Premium Selection is one of several members of the Thorntons range to be available in several supermarkets, as well as in the high street retailer's stores. It is a more upmarket version of their Classic Selection, but far, far nicer than its cheaper baby brother. Whereas the Classic Selection contains more soft-centred caramels and fruit-flavours (not my bag), the chocolates in here tend more towards deep, velvety truffles, soft, light mousses and crunchy pralines (my favourites). The chocolate in them is of a higher quality than in comparable boxes: it's thicker, and darker, with the result that there is a big leap up in terms of flavour. You ...  Read the complete review

These were given to me as part of a birthday present and although I do like Thorntons chocolate I think they are slightly overrated. Yes they're tastier than the usual Cadburys or Nestle that I eat but some of the prices I've seen them being priced at are a bit extreme. I was in fact very surprised that I managed to last these a full 4 days before they were gone. And there's only 15 in a box. They come in a rectangle shaped box with sadly only one layer. It's red in colour and has golden star shapes on it. Making it look quite christmassy. It also tells you the types of chocolates you're getting inside so you don't have to go around tipping the box ...  Read the complete review

A while a go Andrew came home with this box of chocolates in his hands. Apparently someone in work had given them to him but he didn't want them so unfortunately I got to eat them all to myself! The 205g box consists of one layer of 15 different chocolates. The chocolates are a combination of truffles, pralines and mousses and are a mixture of dark, white and milk chocolate. On first glance it was obvious to me that I was going to thoroughly enjoy these chocolates and because they looked amazing. Some were lightly dusted with chocolate, some were glazed with dark chocolate and others were 'knobbly' and I just didn't know where to start! I pulled ...  Read the complete review