A milk chocolate slab with fizzy popping candy, a swirl of white chocolate flavoured with lemon sherbet and topped off with lemon chocolate drops, part of the Children’s Chocolate range from Hotel Chocolat.

I love white chocolate with citrus fruits there is something special about the combination of smooth white chocolate and the tang from the fruit, it just works. So I was rather intrigued when I saw the Hotel Chocolat’s Fizzy Lemonade Chocolate Slab which is mainly milk chocolate flavoured with three types of lemon.

The bar is rather eye-catching with swirl if white chocolate in the centre, which goes right into the milk chocolate rather than just a swirl on top, and three bright yellow lemon drops dotted round the sides. The back is speckled with pieces of yellow popping candy giving the reverse a texture and making it rather sticky, like old fashioned lemonade.

With the three different types of lemon; sherbet, poppy candy and lemon oil, all natural ingredients, you would expect the chocolate slab to very lemony – but what you actually get is a very smooth lemon flavour, similar to a well-made lemon mousse, with a pleasant flavour that changes in strength depending on the amount of white chocolate, popping candy or lemon drop in each bite.

The lemon sherbet gives the whole bar a lemony flavour with bursts of citrus from the popping candy and a refreshing sharpness from the three white chocolate shaped lemons on top.

At 200g the Fizzy Lemonade Chocolate slab is less than half the size of the Giant Chocolate Slabs, also from Hotel Chocolat, but it is still a very impressive chocolate bar, just like the larger Giant Chocolate Slabs these smaller slabs are presented in a bag with a window, so you can see the chocolate inside, and a handle, so it can be carried. Great for sharing, a chocolate gift or a special treat for one.

£7.00, 200g.

Labelled: Vegetarian, Gluten Free and Alcohol Free.

Hotel Chocolat’s “Summer Sizzler” Peepster Box – four individually flavoured mini chocolate slabs, bursting with summer flavours.

Beautifully displayed in a presentation box, decorated with Union Jack flags and completed with a caring handle, each of the four chocolate bars peep out tempting you to try them.

Each of the chocolate bars are 100g and individually wrapped. The four Summery flavours are:

• Eton Mess: Vanilla infused white chocolate swirled with strawberry flavoured chocolate, poured over chocolate cookies and finished with meringue and strawberry pieces, creamy with a crunch and a fruity tang.
• Tutti Frutti: Half white chocolate and half milk chocolate, fused together and decorated with splashes of bold colours, studded with golden raisins, cherries and pistachios luxury fruit and nut with a Summer twist.
• Cookie Crème: Cocoa rich 40% milk chocolate, on a bed of cookie pieces and dotted with crispies, smooth chocolate with crunch.
• Banoffee: Real slices of banana top of dreamy caramel chocolate and 40% milk banana chocolate, mixed with crushed cookie pieces and decorated with white chocolate.

Three of the chocolate mini slabs are also available as giant chocolate slabs, so you could think of the Sleekster as a tasting box!

All the of the chocolate are part of the Summer chocolate range at Hotel Chocolat, classic dessert recipes which have been transformed into chocolate treats to brighten someone’s day.

£13.50, 400g.

Labelled: Vegetarian and Alcohol Free.

Bursting with colour and flavours the Hotel Chocolat Tutti Fruitti giant chocolate slab is the taste of classic Italian summer ice cream, tutti fruitti, in a huge chocolate bar.

This vibrantly decorated slab of chocolate is two types of chocolate fused together, half 40% milk chocolate and half fruity flavoured white chocolate, splashed with bright, naturally coloured, white chocolate and packed with sour cherries, pistachio pieces and moist golden raisins for the full tutti fruitti effect.

The giant slabs are the largest of the Hotel Chocolat Slabs, a whopping half kilo, so big they come in bags with handles!

£13.50, 500g of summer chocolate.

Labelled: Vegetarian, Gluten Free, Alcohol Free and Egg Free.

An impressively large slab of rich dark chocolate with dark chocolate shapes pressed into the thick bar to add extra texture,

Made from Hotel Chocolat’s 74% cocoa content chocolate this slab is perfect for the dark chocolate lover. Presented in an elegantly designed bag with a handle, the Dark on Dark Slab makes and ideal gift.

£13.50, 500g of wonderful rich dark chocolate.

Labelled: Vegetarian, Vegan, Nut Free, Gluten Free, Milk Free, Alcohol Free and Egg Free.