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Booja Booja Chocolate Truffles

Lee — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:56:14 +0000

Dairy and wheat allergies often prevent sufferers from enjoying the delightful delicacies of chocolate. Booja Booja was created in 1999 in Norfolk, England as an effort to provide quality chocolate for everyone to experience, regardless of wheat or dairy allergies. Booja Booja is a manufacturer of fine organic chocolates founded by Colin Mace. Its aim is to create “A pioneering vision of creating benign and immensely pleasurable, guiltless, indulgences for all to enjoy,” and desires to create a chocolate that is both healthy and delicious.

Booja Booja has received more than 25 awards including the 2005 award for the best 100% vegetarian box of chocolates, and the 2003 best organic confectionary, among many other distinguished awards for organic quality, package design, and taste. Booja Booja makes a variety of products that are manufactured from 100% organically grown ingredients and contain no traces of wheat, gluten, or dairy.

Booja Booja’s award winning organic vegan chocolate truffles are made in a delectable range of splendid flavours, and beautifully packaged in hand crafted and painted gift boxes, wooden drums, and eggs. Because Booja Booja’s chocolates and packaging are all hand-crafted, the result is a beautiful product that appears truly artisan and unique. Booja Booja prides itself on its delicious organic products and splendid packaging. Among its award winning truffles are:

Around Midnight Espresso Truffles

These elegant and delicious truffles are produced from fine organically grown coffee that is freshly roasted and combined with Booja Booja’s own organic chocolate.

Hazelnut Crunch Truffles

With crispy rice and roasted hazelnut nibs, these delightful truffles contain a tasty hazelnut praline centre.

// Buy from: Chocolate Trading Co. or Ethical Superstore.

Cognac Flambéed Banana Truffles

These deliciously smooth truffles combine Booja Booja’s vegan chocolate with organically grown bananas that have been soaked to perfection in a delicate organic French Cognac.

// Buy from: Chocolate Trading Co. or Ethical Superstore.

Ginger Wine Truffles

These scrumptious truffles contain stem pieces of ginger mixed lovingly with Booja Booja’s organic chocolate.

// Buy from: Chocolate Trading Co. or Ethical Superstore.

Champagne Truffles

These luxurious award-winning truffles are infused with fine organic champagne.

// Buy from: Chocolate Trading Co. or Ethical Superstore.

Luxury Champagne Truffle Eggs

These beautiful hand crafted champagne truffle eggs are individually hand painted by local Kashmir artists who use traditional methods to uniquely design each splendid and exquisite egg.

Booja Booja’s fine quality organic chocolate combined with its dedication to hand made artisan chocolate truffles and unique hand crafted packaging, help to make Booja Booja some of the most highly sought after chocolate products in the world.

// Buy from: Chocolate Trading Co. or Ethical Superstore.

Offical Booja Booja Site

They may not sell direct, but at least you can get a bit more information about them.

Booja Booja Champagne Truffles

Lee — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:36:00 +0000

I’ve a very large soft spot for Booja Booja Truffles with the Booja Booja Around Midnight Espresso Truffles being perhaps some of the finest I’ve ever tasted – until now.

This Booja Booja egg came courtesy of the fine people at Ethical Superstore who knew that I loved these chocolate Booja Booja truffles.

One thing that really stands out with these Booja Booja Trufle Eggs is that they look absolutely fantastic. You will really find it difficult to find a collection of truffles that look as good as these. What’s more, the egg is very robust. I’ve used one to keep the key in for the back door for a good while. I’m not sure what I’ll keep in this one, but I know it’ll get good use!

Even when you open up the shell you’re met with what looks like three nuggets of gold. In chocolate terms they’re just as precious.

Each gold-wrapped packet contains something more desirable than any precious metal. They house one of the finest truffles you’re likely to taste.

But it’s the Champagne aroma that hits you first as you unpeal them. They have a very strong Champagne nose, almost like a strong cider. When it hits you, you know you’re in for a taste sensation.

They’re as delicate and as fragile as a new born baby. The texture is so soft and light as to almost not exist. If I could eat a chocolate Rolls Royce, it would taste like this. Every single millisecond of experiencing this Booja Booja Champagne truffle is fulled to the brim with quality and sensuality. Each one is like a half-hour deep massage enveloped in soft music. You’ll feel a different person. You’ll feel a better person.

Like all good things, they must come to an end. Like a holiday romance they don’t last long enough. For your considerable outlay, I won’t mention how much just yet, you’ll have three holiday romances – but with each you won’t have the post-holiday blues, all you do is go back on to the internet and order yourself some more.

I think you can gather, I loved these, I’m sure you would too.

Rating:

Taste: 100% – perfect. I know its an extreme score, but I loved them that much

Texture: 95% – soft, delicate, sensuous, like soft satin sheets

Appearance: 99% – can’t be bettered

Nutritional Information: 80% – actually there’s the important information you require

Price: 80% – at £8.99 they’re fairly expensive. But you do get a gorgeous handmade shell that will last for years

Overall: 90.8% –

Where To Buy These Booja Booja Champagne Truffles

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Booja Booja Organic Valentine’s Truffles

Lee — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:30:00 +0000

I love Booja Booja generally as their truffles are fantastic. I only had a less than amazing time with one of their range which was the Booja Booja Organic Cognac Flambéed Banana Truffles. I did love their Wine Truffle Easter egg and the Hazelnut Crunch Truffle Egg though.

The only issue for getting Booja Booja stuff, such as thier selection box is that they often don’t look all that special. You may get a wonderful variety of truffles such as hampagne truffles, Ginger wine truffles, Hazelnut crunch rochers, Espresso truffles and Cognac Flambed banana truffles – but the visual wow factor isn’t there.

I’m just glad their Organic Champagne Truffles are presented in a wonderfully designed box so they may be more suitable as a Valentine’s gift.

Where To Buy Lindor Dark Chocolate Eggs

Selection Box – £11.95
Champagne Truffles – £8.45
Booja-Booja Luxury Kasmiri Truffle Box – £45

Booja Booja Organic Cognac Flambéed Banana Truffles

Lee — Mon, 04 May 2009 10:15:00 +0000

These Booja Booja Organic Cognac Flambed Banana Truffles are another load of chocolates that I bought from Chocolate Trading Co and I had high hopes for them, not least because I absolutely loved the Booja Booja Around Midnight Espresso Truffles I reviewed on my Easter eggs site. However, I must confess, they’re no where near as nice.

To be honest I can’t fault the packaging, it does fully represent what you’ll get in side. But it does slightly remind me of the boxes of Turkish Delight you’ll find in a bazaar in the country of the same name.

As soon as you open the box up you’ll notice some gorgeous looking organic truffles. This will be quickly followed by a very powerful cognac aroma that may knock you to the ground. It would be unfair to call it pungent, but it is strong. But that doesn’t take anything away from how delightful they look.

My first recollection of these Booja Booja Organic Cognac Flambed Banana Truffles was that I didn’t like them. But on this second run past them a couple of days later they’re much smoother than I first remembered. The Cognac flavour isn’t anywhere near as overpowering as you may have thought from the aroma and the banana flavour catches the end of the taste-sensation and it quite welcome. Overall, if you wanted to buy someone special some chocolate for Christmas or a birthday then I’d recommend these Booja Booja Organic Cognac Flambed Banana Truffles as a good place to start as they’re only £4.95.

Quick Rating: 45%