cheap chocolate

asparagus1968

well, I'm just tucking into a few squares of sains basics dark chocolate, and highly recommend it for 30p !!

the-mango

asparagus1968 wrote: »

well, I'm just tucking into a few squares of sains basics dark chocolate, and highly recommend it for 30p !!

I definitely agree!

Seakay

I always go for Lidl or Ikea chocolate and I believe that Aldi is very good as well. Lidl (and Possibly Aldi) have the greatest choice

System

Mrs_Grey wrote: »

My daughter was given a bar of Asda smart price chocolate for singing to the pensioners with the school choir and it was surprisingly nice. We finished it off in no time. Just looked it up and it's 30p for 100g

i use this one when you melt it it somehow tastes much creamier.

lushlifesaver

The Morrisons cheap stuff is quite nice, I use it for making gifts from the kitchen all the time, its between 30p and 35p a bar (100g)
And I've just bought some plain chocolate from Tescos for 50p to try making truffles apparently its one of the ones that works best

SEE

Agree with a lot of people here. Lidle, is the best for the money I have ever had. Their 86% chocolate takes some beating on price and flavour.

Meadows

oligeo wrote: »

I want to make some Christmas gifts for the kids to give, like the slabs that Hotel Chocolat do, I wondered what the best tasting cheap chocolate is? I think a few years ago when I did this it was a basic Salisbury's one, but I wondered if that was still the case? Many thanks chocolate lovers! Sarah

Lidl chocolate is quite nice (I recently made wedding chocolate lollies and everyone kept saying that the chocolate was lovely).

At the moment the Hazelnut is on offer at 15p.

I recently purchased three chocolate molds one a Sewing Box & Accessories (has a hollow chocolate box and lid with cotton bobbins, needles scissors, needle threader etc. Another was a Tool Box (hollow chocolate tool box & lid with saw, pliers, screw driver etc. The other one was four pairs of leaping Reindeer & Santa in a Sleigh.
These have been made an wrapped in cellophane sweet bags(eBay) and boxes (Hobby Craft) tied with ribbon.

I had almost six bars of 100g milk chocolate left (I have been using Lidl Milk 15p, the chocolate boxes Lidl Hazelnut and some tools and Reindeer Lidl white chocolate, these last two a little more expensive but no more than about 45p - now down to 15p for the Hazelnut). I was going to make Peppermint sticks but while waiting on a sugar thermometer I decided to melt into a large chocolate bar.
I lined a baking sheet with foil the melted the chocolate. In the mean time I put dried Cranberries, Blueberries, chopped Apricots, Dates, Prunes, Almonds, Desiccated Coconut and Rice Krispies into a bowl, mixed around and then removed about a 1/3. Added some coco powder to the removed amount and mixed together. The 2/3 I added to the melted chocolate and then placed on the foil spreading to cover everywhere evenly.
I then sprinkled the remaining 1/3 over the top and added some more desiccated Coconut.

I put this in the fridge to set for about 10 minutes but while still soft marked into squares (could have set and broken or marked into several big slabs). Left until set for another 10 - 15 minutes and then turned out removed the foil, flipped back to the good side and cut into (large) squares.
I put these into cellophane sweet bags (eBay) and then in gift boxes (sampling some for myself and putting a few by for hubby).

I impressed even myself, these are absolutely yummy and healthy well as much as chocolate can be with the fruit and nut .

These are gifts for Adults (even the Reindeer and chocolate boxes but would equally suit younger children and you could add or omit things they did/did not like or vary to make assorted chocolate.

The 600g (almost) squares cost 90p + the dried fruit and almonds

snowleopard61

Thank you, this is a great thread. I'm planning to do this as well - I have already bought the chocolate for the slabs themselves, from Aldi as it happens, but will bear the recommendations in mind for future reference. Thanks particularly to Meadows for the idea of cutting the chocolate into squares to pack - for some reason this hadn't occurred to me and it will make it look a bit more of a present and go a bit further!

snowleopard61

PS JIL, I love your avatar. Very cute.

Justamum

Tesco Value chocolate is also good.