For some, nothing that beats the sweet, creamy, slightly baked flavour of British chocolate, while others find it an affront to their tastebuds. But why does it taste that way at all?

I tried 5 classic British chocolate bars for the first time - and my ratings are brutal As a Kiwi who's moved to the UK, I've seen plenty of new (to me) treats in the corner shops I've never tried.

Making next week’s episode, The Great British Baking Show “Pastry Week,” all the more nerve-wracking for fans is the reality that “Chocolate Week” upended the proverbial leaderboard ...

A U.K. soldier and "affectionate husband" stationed overseas in 1900 sent a British chocolate bar as a gift — all the way back home to his wife. An astonishing 124 years later, the bar is still ...

The British Way to Make Hot Chocolate 10x Better. Jessica Wrubel. Fri, January 17, 2025 at 8:15 PM UTC. 3 min read.

British chocolate typically boasts a higher cocoa content and less sugar than its Australian counterpart, and even the milk has a distinct flavour depending on its country of origin.

Ziegler confirms that chocolate made with crumb, as British milk chocolates are, tends to have a slightly cooked note. "You can get some caramelisation in the milk," he says.

For hot chocolate, French pastry chef and master chocolatier Jacques Torres recommends only using high-quality dark chocolate with a cacao content between 60% and 72%, preferably from South ...