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Ice cream! Milk! Chocolate!

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As of the end of April/beginning of May 2016, I no longer work with Besos de Oro

I teased you all a few days ago about the upcoming developments from my client, Besos de Oro.

Well, the time has come to give you a sneak peek behind the curtain. Are you ready?

Besos new vegan products

Yes, you are seeing what you think you are seeing.

Besos de Oro is the creamy drink crafted from brandy and horchata, a milky liquid made of chufa. Chufa is a tuber also known as tiger nut and is the star ingredient of horchata from Spain.

Besos is now changing the way vegans and dairy-free consumers get their milk, ice cream and chocolate. These creamy new products are made from the chufa plant and the entire range is also gluten free.

As if that isn’t enough to impress, Besos is also set to please with a brand new tomato frito. Frito is a decadent sauce made from roasted tomatoes and is the main tomato ingredient in Spanish cuisine. Peter from Besos de Oro assures me that his frito is the best you will ever taste.

This news is intense and is wearing me out, so let me recap.

The new Besos frito and milk will be available in the UK not long after you read this post, followed by the Besos ice cream and chocolate. All vegan!

As of the end of April/beginning of May 2016, I no longer work with Besos de Oro

You should follow Besos de Oro on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to find out where these glorious new vegan products will be sold (and what those mysterious unannounced products are!).

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Chocolate forever

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This is my second post about chocolate within a week, but I am unrepentant. Chocolate is worth covering twice in a seven day period. I’ll fight whoever says it isn’t.

I’m not sure what I have been doing with my life to somehow let this gorgeous brand of chocolate slip past me. Have you tried any of the vegan flavours listed below? (Be warned: it is a long list and will kickstart your cravings in a major way)

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Mini Vego

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Have you been swept up in the chocolate craze that has been wowing vegans all over Europe?

Vego is the jumbo bar in a foil wrapper that is crammed with hazelnuts and impossible to stop eating. Not one person I have shared it with has not been impressed.

The bar is huge and a few people have mentioned they have stopped buying it regularly due to its irresistibility. The giant bar gets eaten within minutes of being open. It takes a stronger person than me to make it last longer than five minutes.

The makers of Vego must have heard these cries of vegans because they have gone and produced a Vego Mini. Yes, a lovely and super cute smaller version of one of the best chocolate bars on the planet.

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Isn’t it cute?!

Instead of the 150g of mouthwatering sweetness, you can now purchase the same product in a 65g size.

So cute, I might have to buy three at a time.

Available most everywhere.

Chocolate on the buffet

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Just when you thought my vegan Day of the Dead party this weekend couldn’t get any tastier, Cocoafeliz have joined the buffet table.

When I wrote about this vegan chocolate company a while back, it resulted in one of the most popular blog posts in the history of FGV. You can see the original post here.

This company has been the smash hit vegan success of London over the past few months. They make some of the tastiest cruelty-free chocolates around and you can order them online for home delivery.

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The fab people behind these delicacies want to treat attendees of my 3rd annual vegan Day of the Dead party. How lovely!

They are sending over 70 individual, handcrafted chocolates for the giant buffet. Flavours will include coffee, strawberry, peanut butter, choc caramel, orange caramel, lavender and kiwi. I hope I am able to show restraint when the delivery arrives.

You can read all about my Mexican party here or order tickets online here.

Please visit the Cocoafeliz online shop to see the entire range available.

You can also follow them on Twitter and like them on Facebook.

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Chocolate by post

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One of the taste highlights of the recent vegan show in Kensington Town Hall were the truffles and chocolates crafted by Cocoafeliz. If you were at this event, you probably know exactly what I am talking about. They were a smash hit.

If you didn’t make it along to see this new confectioner in the flesh, I have some good news for you.

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Cheap as chocolate

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It is a wonderful time of year. A time of year I always look forward to with great anticipation. No, not spring. It’s time for discounted vegan chocolate.

Here are two delights I picked up this week in the post-Easter sales.

How about you? What have you found in the chocolate bargain bins this week?

What was good? What was amazing?

Ice cream defeated me

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The Vegan Ice Cream Wars have left many casualties throughout a long and tumultuous history. Sadly, the FGV himself (that’s me!) is the latest in a long line of the fallen.

I should learn restraint, but I don’t have an off switch when presented with a full tub of chocolate ice cream. I keep eating until there is nothing.

Yi is the newish kid on the block when it comes to dairy free dessert and I was keen to get my chubby paws around a tub. The container I purchased in Whole Foods Market was a substantial price and came with the warning usually associated with the ingredient xylitol. You know, too much will result in frequent trips to the toilet.

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Give yourself to the dark side

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I feel sorry for people who celebrate Christmas. All that money spent on gifts for other people when they could be buying vegan treats for themselves in Hotel Chocolat.

A few days ago I ventured into the Waterloo Station location of chocolate emporium Hotel Chocolat and was blown away by the tastiness on offer. This was my first experience inside one of their stores, but I’m confident they will get to know me on a first name basis before too long.

Of course not everything is vegan inside the shop, but they certainly give greedy plant eaters like me something to get excited about. On asking about the vegan options, I was inundated with choices as the super-friendly staff member practically fell over trying to show me every product suitable for my compassionate sensibilities. I loved that these items were also clearly marked as being vegan on the packaging.

Check out the photos below to see which items won the distinguished accolade of being devoured by me. There were plenty more options that were almost-rans, but I’ll be getting to know them more intimately in the near future.

Dark chocolate with mint crisp
Dark chocolate with mint crisp
Dark chocolate & chilli batons
Dark chocolate & chilli batons
Gorgeous hazelnut
Gorgeous hazelnut slab
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Hotel Chocolat Waterloo

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