03 Dec 2015
Tags: Easter, Valentine, Fudge, Gift, Experience, confectionery, premium, make at home, lent, Pancakes, shrove tuesday
Ever ahead of the game, Fudge Kitchen has already got Spring sewn up. Ditch the clichéd chocolate eggs and red roses this year and give the gift of fudge – from gorgeously packaged seasonal selections to a full on Fudge Making Experience for two.
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways …
Just the five ways, it would appear. But when all involve handmade, hand decorated, premium fudge, using only the finest ingredients; when all are beautifully packaged and all guaranteed to set hearts racing … that should be ample.
1) Slim Sliders: Six miniature chunks of creamy gourmet fudge in Sea Salted Caramel, White Chocolate & Raspberry and Chocolate Rose patiently queuing up for your delectation in an elegant bronze sliding tray.
Weight: 125g
RRP: £6 (plus P&P)
Availability: from selected stockists and www.fudgekitchen.co.uk
2) Fudge Treats: 12 individually hand tied, miniature parcels of superlatively smooth fudge in Sea Salted Caramel and White Chocolate & Raspberry.
Weight: 240g
RPP: £10 (plus P&P)
Availability: from selected stockists and from www.fudgekitchen.co.uk
3) Fudge in my Kitchen Love kit: The four-strong Fudge in my Kitchen range of kits, showcased on Channel 4's Sunday Brunch, are 1kg of warm, silken fudge just waiting to happen.
Each beautifully gift packaged kit includes thermometer, apron, spatulas and all natural, gluten-free ingredients and decorations to make three flavours of fresh fudge. Just add whipping cream or soya milk and a whole lotta lurve. Make it together a throw in a little 'Ghost' modeling action.
Complete with full instructions to guide you through the process, from the correct temperatures to the traditional technique behind FK's famed smooth consistency. The kit also includes freeze-dried strawberries, crushed meringue, mint crunch and dark chocolate to create three adventurous fudges …
- Strawberries and Cream
- Chocolate Brownie
- Sea Salted Caramel
Weight: 1kg
RRP: £25 (plus P&P)
Availability: from selected stockists and www.fudgekitchen.co.uk
4) Valentines Hamper: A big be-ribboned box of FK gems. Everything your beloved will need, in fact, for a cosy night on the settee, including …
- ceramic Fudge Kitchen logo-ed mug with ceramic spoon
- 2 x sachets of Rich Chocolate Drinking Fudge
- 1 x packet of mini marshmallows
- 1 x Valentines slim slider
… just add hot milk, a RomCom and the tissues.
Weight: 560g
RRP: £18 (plus P&P)
Availability: from selected stockists and www.fudgekitchen.co.uk
5) In an hour long Fudge Making Experience, you and your Valentine will learn about the history of fudge, the science behind the temperatures, watch a demonstration before trying your own hand at the traditional “creaming and loafing” technique on a 5ft marble table. Herein lies the secret of Fudge Kitchen's supremely creamy fudge.
You may decide to create a personalised flavour for your cherished one; although, with over 20 Fudge Kitchen recipes to choose (and sample) from, ranging from Lemon Meringue Pie to Sea Salted Caramel, you won't struggle to find their favourite. And with a beautifully packaged box of four slices of your creation to take home too, this will be one year when you'll score some serious (chocolate) brownie points.
£50 Fudge Making Experience gift certificates for two are available from www.fudgekitchen.co.uk or from any of Fudge Kitchen's nationwide stores in Bath, York, Cambridge, Windsor, Canterbury, Edinburgh and Oxford. Experiences are redeemable at any of these seven shops.
The Easter parade
Step aside eggs, you've had your day. Premium, all natural fudge, made by an artisan team of Celsius-specific, creaminess-compulsive pedants, all beautifully gift packaged is where it's at …
Slim Sliders:Slide out the bronze tray to reveal six squares of silky smooth, gourmet butter fudge in Chocolate Classic, Lemon Tart and Double Trouble Chocolate.
Weight: 125g
RRP: £6 (plus P&P)
Availability: from selected stockists and www.fudgekitchen.co.uk
Easter Fudge Treats:A gilded box packed with Fudge Kitchen's famously creamy fudge, each hand wrapped and tied. Including best selling flavours Sea Salted Caramel and Double Trouble Chocolate.
Weight: 240g
RPP: £10 (plus P&P)
Availability: from selected stockists and from www.fudgekitchen.co.uk
Pimp your pancakes with Liquid Fudge …
Fudge Kitchen's Liquid Fudge range, new for 2015, are perfect for drizzling onto pancakes, including Classic Toffee, Chocolate & Ginger and Chocolate Caramel, Look out for our delicious Apple Butterscotch recipe at http://www.fudgekitchen.co.uk/fudge-sauces/fudge-sauce-recipes/meringues/
ENDS
Editors' notes …
- Fudge Kitchen started as Jim Garrahy's Fudge Kitchen in Blackpool in 1983. In 1995, the company was bought by MD Sian Holt, who, over the course of 18 years, expanded the Fudge Kitchen retail side into eight thriving shops in Bath, York, Cambridge, Canterbury, Windsor, Edinburgh, Ripon and Oxford; before steering the brand into a new, exciting wholesale phase of its life, with the development in 2012 of the Devilishly Different Gourmet Butter Fudge range. Still using the finest, natural ingredients, handmade and hand decorated by an artisan staff in their new dedicated production facility in Aylesham, Kent, but now with an extended shelf life of six months. The company now exports to 20 countries and is stocked in some the finest retailers in the world, including KaDeWe in Berlin, Dean and Deluca in Kuwait and Harrods and Selfridges in the UK.
- The 60 strong range of Gourmet Butter products includes Drinking Fudge, Fudge Sauces, Gift Hampers, Dipped Sticks, miniatures and sharers; and a menu of some 40 flavours. Recent departures include their loose serve miniatures and baubles and slice & serve fudge loaves and a five strong range of brittles and caramels: the Delectables. All are available online at www.fudgekitchen.co.uk and selected lines are available through over 200 stockists nationwide including Selfridges, Harrods, Waitrose, Lakeland, Firebox, Maison Blanc, Curzon cinemas, Fenwick's, Beales, Booths and independent speciality stores across the UK. Fudge Kitchen are also proud to supply own brand fudge products for Selfridges and Hotel Chocolat, amongst others.
- Fudge Kitchen supply their products direct, but are also distributed by HF Chocolates (hfchocolates.co.uk), and now export through European distributors Bommel, in Holland (www.bommelsconserven.nl), Grand Cru in Germany (www.grand-cru-konfekt.de) and Emma's Corner in France (www.emmas-corner.fr)
- The boasty bit: Fudge Kitchen are proud to have received seven Great Taste Awards in 2010, 2011, 2013and 2015 for their Rich Chocolate & Orange Fudge, Peanut Butter Fudge, Butterscotch Fudge Sauce, Sticky Toffee Pudding Gourmet Fudge, Hazelnut Heaven Gourmet Fudge, Sea Salted Caramel Fudge and Peanut Brittle; and to have been named Ambient Manufacturing Company of the Year at the 2014 industry Oscars, the Food Manufacturing Excellence Awards. MD Sian Holt was awarded a Special Award for Leadership and Vision by Produced in Kent and was listed in the Kent Business Power List of 40 most influential business leaders in Kent.
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