I use caster (fine) white sugar for this recipe. I think that granulated sugar would be fine too, but I’ve not tested this recipe with it. If you do, please make sure that you let the sugar crystals to dissolve completely before you start to boil the sugar. To make your own coffee flavouring, use about 2 teaspoons of instant coffee granules with about 1 teaspoon (or little more) of boiling water. Stir to dissolve and add in about 2-4 teaspoons (depending on how strong you want your coffee creams to be). Enrobing the coffee fondant creams in very dark chocolate. Try something like 70-80% cocoa solids coverture (chocolate) to counteract the sweetness of the fondant Any specialist equipment needed? If you’re giving them as a gift, please make sure they are suitable for people with food allergies: the recipe for the chocolate coffee creams contains traces of nuts. How much will it cost to deliver Whitakers chocolate coffee creams?

Everyone knows someone who will happily root around a box of chocolates, looking for the coffee-flavoured variety. I guess when you are spoiled with delicious chocolate most of your life, the idea of eating a lump of flavoured fondant is not that exciting! But, I’m happy to say, I was totally wrong! There’s the all-important coffee flavour, while plain caramel provides the colour. Although Whitakers coffee cream chocolates are gluten and palm oil free, they do contain soya, as well as traces of lactose and nuts. Indulge yourself in a FairTrade treatDon’t leave the sugar stand for too long after you’ve added the flavour. If the sugar cools down too much, the mixture becomes too crumbly and won’t form smooth fondant. What makes this recipe work

The creamy, rich fondant in these smooth coffee cream chocolates is a mix of sugar, glucose syrup and water, while the vegan dark chocolate coating contains cocoa mass, sugar, cocoa butter and soya lecithin as an emulsifier. Fondant creams do have a very long shelf life, and I have kept them for much longer than 4 weeks. What I’ve noticed is that sugar texture starts to dry out after few weeks and the texture is more crumbly, but the flavour was still fine. This recipe and me Keep the fondant creams in cool place (not in the fridge) in an airtight box (or tin or paper box) and separate each layer with baking parchment to make sure that the chocolate covering doesn’t get scoffed.At this point, the mixture might be still very hot (especially in the middle), so wear catering/plastic gloves, or be very careful when you knead the syrup. Yes, these coffee creams make perfect gifts for birthday parties, hen parties or used as wedding favours or Christmas presents for your foodie friends and family. You can make them up to one week in advance, on the understanding that they will be fine for a week or two after that. How to store chocolate coffee creams

Someone somewhere clearly had the bright idea of combining the two ingredients, covering them in chocolate and voila! The coffee cream was born. What’s inside Whitakers’ coffee cream chocolates? It was removed from the selection years ago but there are calls on social media to reinstate the delicious coffee cream. Do Roses have chocolate coffee creams? In November 2021, Quality Street asked the nation what their favourite retro sweet was. It was revealed that Coffee Creme was the number one most-loved retro sweet. The sweet gained 39% of the vote.

How to enjoy coffee and chocolate

What we are sure of is that these delicious chocolate coffee creams, suitable for vegans, will be the best you’ve ever tasted! I choose coffee flavour for this recipe, partly because I simply love the coffee and chocolate flavour combination, but also because you can use regular instant coffee granules to flavour this traditional confectionery. The full list of stores taking part is as follows: Bluewater, Cribbs Bristol, Oxford Street, Cheadle, Kingston, Liverpool, Solihull, Southampton, Milton Keynes, Trafford, Edinburgh, Leeds, Nottingham, Peter Jones Sloane Square, Brent Cross, Westfield WhiteCity, Cardiff, Cambridge, and Newcastle.