Lisa Bone – Page 3 – Choc Affair

13 May

News

5 Reasons Why Baking is Good for your Mental Health

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Lisa Bone

13/07/2023

Image credit: WE - Rolling Pins This week is mental health awareness week, and over the years, we have grown to talk about mental health more than we have ever done before. Whatever your family role, gender, occupation, age - mental...

10 May

News

Who Invented Chocolate?

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Lisa Bone

10/05/2019

The history of chocolate can be traced back as far as the ancient Mayans and Aztecs in Mexico, both of which are classed as some of the greatest ancient civilizations that have ever been discovered! Within the Aztec culture, cacao...

30 Apr

News

How Chocolate is Made

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Lisa Bone

24/02/2022

Have you ever wondered where it comes from and how chocolate is made? That delicious sweet product we love to eat in so many formats? Filled with caramel, flavoured with chilli flakes or peppermint oil, wrapped around nuts, toffee and...

26 Apr

News

Q&A with our Founder, Linda

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Lisa Bone

24/04/2019

Our founder of Choc Affair, Linda, discovered her love of making chocolate back in 2006, when she created our hot chocolate stirrers. Since then, the company has grown immensely; and after just launching our new branding, we thought it would...

16 Apr

News

Different Names for Palm Oil

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Lisa Bone

27/03/2019

Recognising palm oil in the products that we consume isn’t as easy as we might think. The obvious would be to look for the word ‘palm’ - and of course, we aren’t wrong to do that, but that’s not the...

14 Apr

News

What is sustainable palm oil?

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Lisa Bone

28/03/2019

According to The Oxford Dictionary, the definition of sustainability is the ‘avoidance of the depletion of natural resources in order to maintain an ecological balance’. We understand this to mean balancing our needs with the resources available to us, whilst protecting...

Coconut, Vanilla & Chocolate Layer Cake Recipe

09 Apr

Recipes

Coconut, Vanilla & Chocolate Layer Cake Recipe

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Lisa Bone

03/05/2022

This simple cake recipe has been adapted to create a truly flavoursome treat with a real wow factor! Perfect for spring, the freshness in this cake really is reminiscent of Easter time. Click "continue reading" to view the recipe.

09 Apr

News

Palm Oil Alternatives in the Chocolate Industry

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Lisa Bone

03/04/2019

Palm oil has been used as an alternative to cocoa butter for many years in the chocolate industry, allowing larger chocolate manufacturers to create products by replacing the more expensive ingredient of cocoa butter, with a less expensive alternative. In light...

06 Apr

News

Why is Palm Oil Bad?

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Lisa Bone

27/03/2019

Why is palm oil bad? Palm oil itself is an oil harvested from a resource, yet it is widely blamed as the one of the leading causes of deforestation, along with beef farming, soybean production and timber farming. The world’s consumption...