Chocolate Flavourings

The worst enemy of chocolate is water. Standard food flavourings and colourings are water based so these are not suitable for flavouring chocolate if it is to be used on its own. Special oil based flavours and colours can be found online or in cooking shops and these come in a wide variety.

We have the following flavours available:

• Apple
• Banana creme
• Bavarian Creme
• Blueberry
• Bubble Gum
• Butter Rum
• Caramel
• Cheesecake
• Cherry
• Cinnamon
• Coconut
• Cotton Candy
• Egg Nog
• Keoke Coffee
• Key Lime
• Lavendar
• Lemon
• Lime
• Musk
• Orange
• Peanut Butter
• Peppermint
• Pina Colada
• Pineapple
• Raspberry
• Red Licorice
• Strawberry
• Tropical Punch
• Vanilla
• Watermelon

We've been experimenting with flavours for several decades, and these are some of the combinations which we have found to be successful ... along with some which are not so successful.

Successful Flavour Combinations

• Caramel flavour and apple flavour, just a few drops of each, is a delicious combination for Christmas (we colour these red and green like a toffee apple)
• Blueberry cheesecake is a recent flavour combination and it appears as though the discovery of cheesecake flavour will improve the flavour of other, less subtle tastes such as blueberry
• Red Liquorice flavouring with dried cranberries - don't use too much and taste test as you add more flavour
• Pineapple and coconut works well, but then we already knew that didn't we Pina Colada fans?! Often our most successful creations are based on famous and popular cocktails or desserts
• Coffee and mint, the perfect after dinner combination.
• Butter rum and coffee, another nightcap alternative.

Most Popular Solo Flavours

• Mint
• Musk
• Butterscotch
• Bavarian Cream
• Coffee
• Vanilla
• Key Lime
• Vanilla

Least Popular

• Lavendar - someone once commented that it was like "eating Grannies undie drawer" so I've been scared to use it ever since. It is probably a bit too strong for chocolates and works better in an icing on a light sponge, and only used very sparingly.
• Blueberry - this is a challenging flavour to measure well. If it is subtle, it is lovely ... but it is very easy to use too much and it turns bitter. We have since started adding cheesecake flavour to this and it works much better.
• Cherry - what can we say? It tastes like medicine.