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London has a vegan chocolate shop

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Copperhouse Chocolate has launched as a vegan chocolate shop and cafe this April!

For the past decade, hot-chocolatier and founder Juliet has hand crafted award-winning chocolate drinks and treats to excite chocolate lovers from all over the world.

As a vegan of 20 years, Juliet has tried to make sure these have generally been plant-based.

With the changes in the London vegan scene in the last couple of years and greater understanding of plant-based diets, the time has come to stop compromising by offering drinks with dairy – the new brand is entirely vegan!

The chocolate shop and cafe is centred around a unique collection of hot chocolates. Single-origin hot chocolates from Colombia, Madagascar and Ecuador have their own distinct tastes. For the range of flavoured hot chocolates, fruits and spices are combined to create flavours including Chilli con choccy, Raspberry Dream, Mintchievous. The award-winning recipes are made with only the finest ingredients, which have been carefully selected for their optimum quality, unique sweetness, and traceability to support social consciousness.

The hot chocolates and nut cups are all made onsite, with a window to the production kitchen offering an exclusive glimpse of the vast pools of melting chocolate being prepared. These are also sold in independent coffee shops around the UK – café owners and retail curators rely on us to ensure that their chocolate tastes as good as the coffee served in their shops.

To accompany the drinks, cakes are all made in house. All with a chocolate twist, banana bread with cocoa nibs can also be upgraded with yoghurt, fruit and chocolate sauce for brunch. Chocolate coconut tart is made with a raw almond base and filled with ganache while chunky cookies are free on Friday afternoons during chocolate happy hour.

The chocolate-inspired brunch menu includes savoury cornbread waffles topped with Mexican- style black bean chilli in mole sauce, healthy chocolate avocado smoothie bowls and indulgent orange-zest Jaffa pancakes drizzled with marmalade-maple syrup and chocolate sauce. Waffles can be customised with choice of toppings – choose to make it a dessert with ice cream and caramel sauce, or breakfast topped with fruit and nuts, all with added chocolate sauce.

Alongisde the retail packets of hot chocolate and chocolates made onsite, the shop area features a carefully curated lineup of bean-to-bar products by expert chocolate makers including Marou, Duffy’s and vegan white chocolate bars from Solkiki.

Located just moments away from Angel tube station, Copperhouse Chocolate promises a welcoming cosy space to relax with a comforting cup of proper hot chocolate, and offers a home for community groups, meetups, and gatherings to connect in London.

You can follow Copperhouse on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

See the exact location of Copperhouse Chocolate thanks to Google Maps.

UK favourite sweets in vegan versions

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ConVEctionery is a new business that launched around a month ago and is already getting some amazing reviews.

Their popularity seems to come down to them creating products that we all miss from our non-vegan days and replicating them for vegans.

ConVEctionary made these treats for friends and family at first and the feedback was so sensational, they thought they had better let even more people try for themselves.

Check out these vegan versions of Jammie Dodgers, Peanut Butter Cups, Kit Kat fingers, and Rocky Road.

It all looks fabulous.

You can order for UK delivery and if you use the promo code EASTER, you can get a 10% discount!

Click here to order and be sure to follow ConVEctionery on Instagram.

Wholesale vegan brownie

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Brighton Bakery is a 100% vegan wholesale bakery based in Brighton.

Since 2015, they have supplied coffee shops and restaurants nationwide with trays of their banging brownies and freakin’ awesome flapjacks. This year, they have launched their best-selling brownie as an individually packaged product for sale in retail environments.

It’s a frozen product, which will have defrosted in transit to you so will be ready to eat!

The bakery is super stoked that their product is available from The Vegan Kind Supermarket which means that anyone in the country can now have the brownies delivered straight to their door.

You can follow Brighton Bakery on Instagram.

Vegan bakery in Mexico City has soft serve

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What’s better than finding out there is a vegan bakery that you haven’t yet tried?

The fact that said bakery also has vegan soft serve, that’s what!

Peace of Cake is a super cute vegan bakery in Polanco, an upmarket neighbourhood and commercial district of Mexico City.

Gil and I trotted over there yesterday, struggling with an unusually hot day in the Mexican capital.

Our efforts in the heat were rewarded when we discovered Peace of Cake has a soft serve ice cream machine. Just like everything in the bakery, the soft serve is vegan.

Check out our treats below and be sure to follow Peace of Cake on Instagram.

Vegan Delice in Stratford

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This is simply fabulous news.

One of our most popular traders from the now-defunct Hackney Downs Vegan Market is now trading as a pop-up inside Westfield Stratford.

Vegan Delice helped make our weekly Hackney market one of the most popular vegan destinations in the UK, and now Chanel and her team have launched a counter inside the massive Stratford shopping mall.

Chanel’s cupcakes, tray bakes, and cookies are the stuff of legend and now you can get hold of them INSIDE Westfield until March 11, 2019.

This is a huge opportunity for Vegan Delice and I’m thrilled to see a fiercely independent vegan business getting this platform. Nobody works harder than Chanel when it comes to promoting veganism through tasty food.

Get along to support Chanel and make yourself happy with cake!
Follow Vegan Delice on Instagram.

Luxury vegan Easter eggs

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Moo Free Chocolates has launched a brand new premium assortment of chocolates aptly titled ‘marvellously moreish’, and has revealed the first two products in the line up – Sea Salt & Caramel and Dark 65 Easter eggs.

Carefully crafted with their infamous multi-award winning ‘milk’ chocolate and a brand new organic 65% dark chocolate, these two organic Easter eggs epitomise the marvellously moreish range with their velvety richness, luxurious inclusions and ethically-sourced ingredients.

“These two premium Easter eggs – the first of the marvellously moreish range – are like nothing else on the market right now”, says director and co-founder Mike Jessop.

“Easter eggs were our first product at Moo Free, so it’s fitting that this new assortment of ethically-sourced luxurious chocolates should begin with Easter eggs too”.

Follow Moo Free on Instagram and visit their website to see the entire range.

Vegan pick n mix sweet company launches in UK

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The Vegan Candy Company believes that yummy sweets should be enjoyed by everyone.

Founded by Joanna and Lorraine, The Vegan Candy Company has created their own vegan sweet supply store. They believe vegan products shouldn’t have to come with a premium price tag and they’ve worked hard to bring their customers affordable vegan pick n mix at a sweet price.

Joanna and Lorraine are building their business in order to give back to animal rescue charities and to make plant-based confectionery the norm. As they grow, they intend to choose a selection of charities to which they will donate a portion of their profits.

The Vegan Candy Company currently offers its vegan pick n mix range with over 40 varieties of sweets that can be delivered straight to your door.

You can learn more about the company and order your own vegan pick n mix by visiting The Vegan Candy Company online here.

The pick n mix can be purchased in a 500g box, a 1kg box, and a 1kg monthly subscription box.

You can follow them on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

New vegan bakery for London

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One of the most popular traders we have ever hosted at Hackney Downs Vegan Market is LuckyLek.

Nora was always drawing large crowds with her exquisite baked goods and her patisserie items were snapped up quickly by eager fans.

Nora and LuckyLek disappeared from our market lineup a while back but for very good reason.

London has a brand new vegan bakery now that Nora has teamed up with her friend Nama. Get ready to visit Nora & Nama: Vegan Bakery & Deli in Camden.

If you can see the photo above, you will see that Nora & Nama have extremely special menu items and expertly-crafted baked goods.

Customers will discover and adore cakes, celebration cakes, finger food, cookies, bread, canapes, pies, tarts, baked goods, starters, spreads, and gluten free options.

The bakery is located in Camden Market (unit 596-598 Camden Lock) and the grand opening celebration is taking place on Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 December, 2018.

Click here to RSVP to the Facebook event for the opening weekend, follow Nora & Nama on Facebook and Instagram, and see their official website here.

 

New vegan sweets delivery company

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Are you ready for a fabulous and ethical vegan sweets company that will deliver to your home or office?

You got it!

Liberty Vegan Sweets & Gifts is a 100% vegan, family-run enterprise that has spent the past two and a half years exhibiting at vegan festivals and fairs across the UK with Got No Beef Burger Bar and Liberty Vegan Ice Cream & Beverages.

It was at these events that the family behind Liberty Vegan Sweets & Gifts decided to offer vegan pic ‘n’ mix alongside their soft-serve ice cream.

It was a huge lightbulb moment and they decided to plug the huge gap in the market with a fully vegan and ethical sweet store.

They launched their online store of vegan sweet hampers and pic ‘n’ mix boxes in early November 2018 and the response has been fantastic.

Check out some of these photos!

Liberty Vegan Sweets & Gifts try and do the right thing on top of delivering delicious sweets.

They donate 5% of their profits to vegan-friendly charitable causes, their packaging is fully-compostable, recyclable and re-usable, and they offer a range of gluten/soya free options.

These boxes are the perfect gift for a loved one or even yourself!

You should probably head on over to the Liberty Vegan Sweets website where you can get a special 10% off your first order discount with the code ‘Liberty10’.

You can follow Liberty Vegan Sweets on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.

Massive vegan chocolate Santa giveaway

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Do you like vegan chocolate? How about FREE vegan chocolate? How about free vegan chocolate in the shape of Santa?!

The wonderful people at Moo Free Chocolates have given us 200 chocolate Santas to giveaway at Hackney Downs Vegan Market this Saturday and Sunday (November 24 and 25, 2018).

There will be 100 vegan chocolate Santas given away for free each day!

These organic chocolate Santa bars are always a favourite at this time of year, alongside the Moo Free advent calendars which have been known to completely sell out across the UK.

Moo Free Chocolates just won the Best Vegan Chocolate category at the VegFestUK Awards so they are excited to share their award-winning chocolate with our market visitors.

Hackney Downs Vegan Market starts trading at 11am on both Saturday and Sunday, so please arrive early if you would like to get your hands on a Santa. Only one per person until they run out.

Two of our fabulous traders are taking charge of the giveaway so this is who you need to say hello to in order to collect your free chocolate:

  • Saturday – Vegan Delice – our superstar resident baker with cupcakes and hot donuts
  • Sunday – Pason’s Pots – our regular baby food maker selling locally made food for young people!

If you would like to see the full range by Moo Free Chocolates, please visit their website and be sure to follow them on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.

Moo Free Chocolates can be purchased in stores everywhere including supermarkets, health food stores, and independent vegan shops.

See full Hackney Downs Vegan Market details and trader line up for Saturday and Sunday online here.