Last week I received a package from Hotel Chocolat with two samples within from their Summer range. I’m not sure how these are part of a Summer range but I won’t argue, as they look great.

Now the backstory behind this (there’s a story behind every Hotel Chocolat creation) is that these were first made when their downpour of molten chocolate naturally set into “its own unique puddlesque shape.” I didn’t know puddlesque was a word but you learn something new everyday. Now despite this, it seems more believable that they looked at Cadbury’s Giant Buttons and thought “let’s use this basic idea, and make them a million times better”, and it worked.

The bag that these come in looks small, but 140g as I’m sure you’re aware is a lot of chocolate. These are milk chocolate and caramel buttons with a hint of salt. The caramel is infused in the chocolate, so there’s no runnyness or anything like that, just a strong caramel flavour.

What I found was that these were very creamy and caramelly (I can make up my own words too), but I wasn’t able to detect any salt. I suppose it removes a lot of the sweetness that caramel would usually bring, but don’t buy these expecting a sweet and salty experience, because you won’t get that. What you will get though is a little back chock full of delicious caramel buttons. Far better than any type of caramel you’d find in a regular bar, this is the special kind of stuff only a company like Hotel Chocolat could make. Lovely, and well worth it.