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Pick Your Poison Boozy Truffles | Review

Posted on October 20, 2020October 20, 2020 by Jupiter

I was looking for a more upscale, adult candy for this year’s Halloween. Just because kids are the ones trick or treating, doesn’t mean adults can’t have a Halloween themed candy treat! Dann came across the Pick Your Poison Boozy Truffles from Fortnum & Mason – and it seemed perfect! I’ve not had boozy truffles before, but am a big truffle fan.

These truffles weren’t overwhelmingly boozy, they tasted subtle in their alcohol-related flavors, which felt perfect for what we wanted. Our box had two truffles that were duplicated, but the rest had one of each listed. The flavors we got were: Fortnum’s Bellini Truffle (we got two of these), Pink Marc De Champagne Truffle, Fortnum’s Kir Royale Truffle, Fortnum’s London Gin with Lime (we got two of these), Milk Chocolate Port Wine Truffle, Fortnum’s London Gin with Orange, Dark Chocolate Cognac Truffle and Milk Chocolate Whisky Truffe.

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Mozart Chocolate Cream Pumpkin Spice | Drinks Recipe

Posted on October 19, 2020December 13, 2021 by Dann Sullivan

As it’s October, you can now get almost everything in orange, or in Pumpkin Spice flavour. As it turns out, alcohol is no exception to that. As it’s the season we decided to pick up the Mozart Chocolate Cream Pumpkin Spice edition when we spotted it online. I’m going to talk about it for a little bit today as part of our highly Halloween-themed Blogtober challenge.

Firstly, although it’s tough to see on the label, it is a dairy-based alcohol – like Tia Maria and Baileys. If you don’t like those – or have severe allergies – then just stay away. It’s got quite a lot in common with those two brands, however, it should definitely be noted that the flavour really, really comes through in this one.

That said, I’m actually not the biggest fan of pumpkin spice. But this is definitely not to the extremes that we see in other things (Coffee). Sipping it straight you almost immediately get the creamy texture coming though, this is actually almost syrupy. Then, rather than just the flavouring, the bite of the spirit comes through at the same time, with the bite dying away and leaving the taste. It’s nice, and it’s not bad drinking straight, although as with it’s dairy-based cousins I find that it’s better mixed with something else.

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Blue Coffee Box Subscription | Review

Posted on October 18, 2020August 27, 2024 by Dann Sullivan

[Ad- gifted product] We’ve been trying out the Blue Coffee Box monthly subscription, a box which includes two large bags of ethically sourced, gourmet coffee as well as lots of well-thought-out extra information included.

I know a lot of people who are very particular about their coffee, be that how it’s made, where it’s from, what it’s served with or, of course, what it tastes like. I’d never really lump myself into the category of being a coffee enthusiast, but I do drink a lot of the stuff and we have recently acquired Vietnamese Coffee Makers/Phin Vietnamese Filter following a great experience out at a pho restaurant. I’ve tried a lot of coffee over the years, be that from vending machines, instant or coffee grounds, and had a decent variety of it too. With that in mind, I was very interested in what kind of flavours we could expect from a box like this.

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Wicked Kitchen Orange Pumpkin Pesto | Review

Posted on October 14, 2020November 14, 2024 by Jupiter

I love trying new pumpkin items when it comes to Autumn! When I saw Wicked Kitchen had an Orange Pumpkin Pesto, I wanted to try out some of it and see how it went! To make things double spooky, I grabbed some spinach linguine to cook up with it. We do eat a lot of pesto in our home, mainly classic, green (made with basil and spinach), pesto on top of pasta. Having a jarred pesto can be a bit hit and miss, so we had our fingers crossed.

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Pilipalahandmade Halloween Wax Melt | Review

Posted on October 13, 2020October 13, 2020 by Jupiter

Along with the massive amount of candles that we have purchased for Halloween, we picked up a Halloween wax melts box from the Etsy seller Pilipalahandmade. At the price of £8, this box of wax melts feels like a bargain! There are a bunch of different scents and shapes that really seemed perfect for Halloween, so let’s get right into these sents!

Pumpkin Spice Wax Melt

I got two pumpkin spice wax melts in my box, both looking like cute, orange pumpkins! There is a slight citrus undertone, bringing a fruity note to this wax melt, but the spices are there, bringing the pumpkin and classic Autumn feel to this box of melts.

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