🏆 GOOD NEWS EVERYONE - THE RESULTS ARE OUT! 🏆 @acadofchocolate have released the results of the filled chocolate categories that were judged in February, and we have received ANOTHER 5 AWARDS! It's our fifth year of entering and we're so happy for all our chocolates entered to have yet again received accolades from this international competition. The flavours and awards are :- 🥈 Rose, Cherry & Lychee 🥈 Lime Caramel 🥈 Honey Caramel 🥉 Rhubarb Crumble 🥉 Lemon & Marzipan You can find these flavours in our current chocolate selection boxes, so why not order today and have a go at chocolate judging yourself from the comfort of your own home? #goodnews #happychocolatiers #aocawards #acadofchoc #academyofchocolate #awardwinning #aocawards2020 #chocolateawards #eponinepatiss #valrhonauk #artisanchocolate #chocolatetoyourdoor #homedelivery https://www.instagram.com/p/B-R2bb-jsNO/?igshid=hqqr3ozsq1z5
Celebrating 5 NEW AWARDS from the Academy of Chocolate
We are now in our fifth year of entering the Academy of Chocolate Awards, and are delighted to announce that we have continued our pattern of receiving accolades for all chocolates entered!
This year, we entered five new chocolates taken from our Spring Collection.
Lime Caramel, Honey Caramel and Rose, Cherry & Lychee all received Silver Awards,
while Rhubarb Crumble and Lemon & Marzipan both picked up Bronze Awards.
Left to right: Honey Caramel // Rose, Cherry & Lychee // Rhubarb Crumble // Lemon & Marzipan // Lime Caramel
The Academy of Chocolate Awards is one of the biggest and most prestigious competitions in chocolate.
Each year, it attracts entries from all corners of the globe and is judged by a panel of industry experts.
As a small, two-man chocolate company from Manchester, we are always delighted and humbled to see our chocolates ranked amongst the finest in the world.
Judging of the filled chocolates took place in London in late February, with the remaining categories delayed for now until it’s safe for judging to resume.
You can view a full list of this year’s award winners here :
RESULTS OF THE 2020 ACADEMY OF CHOCOLATE AWARDS
In the mean time, we thoroughly advocate judging chocolate yourselves in the safety of your own home. We are still delivering, and our Chocolate Selections currently contain our newly awarded flavours.
Artisan Chocolate Selection
A selection of our seasonal and classic chocolate bonbons, including our most recent award winners from the Academy of Chocolate Awards.
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If you’re looking for previous winners or other Eponine classics, you’ll find all our award winning chocolate in the Award Winners section of our online shop:
SHOP AWARD WINNERS
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It’s that time of year again – the country’s in the middle of a heatwave as we head down to London to attend the Academy of Chocolate Awards evening.
Not a bad place for a chocolate party!
Entries were sent in early February, with a nervous wait and a lot of social media stalking to see if we could spot our chocolates on judges’ plates. The filled chocolates were judged within the first week, so it was a tense wait for the next few months before the awards results were released.
We were very pleased to find that all 12 of our entries had been recognised. This year’s entries were mainly from our Vegan and Gin collections, so it was wonderful to see them perform so well.
Natalie and Chris collecting their award certificates
All entries are judged blind, and we did not specify that any of our entries were vegan, so as not to influence the judges’ opinions. This means that they were judged alongside and to the same criteria as traditional truffles, and were found to be just as good – a fantastic result for our Vegan Collection.
Other entries included a new craft chocolate truffle made with Indian single-estate chocolate made by fellow Mancunians, Dormouse Chocolate, and our popular Mince Pie truffle, both of which received Silver Awards.
This year our chocolates received the following accolades:
You can find all the above chocolates throughout our various chocolate collections, or for a bit of everything, why not try our Chocolate Selection Box?
SHOP AWARD WINNERS
To see more from the awards party and other award winning chocolatiers on social media, search #aocawards . You can also find a full list of award winners on the Academy of Chocolate website.
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"Academy of Chocolate Awards Evening 2019" was originally published on Eponine Fine Chocolate & Patisserie
New award stickers arrived this morning. All our @acadofchocolate entries this year go into selection boxes, so I've no idea what we're going to stick these on... But they're shiny so we had to have them 🤩 Might just cover myself in them and dance around like a sparkly maniac 🕺 #magpie #ilikeshinythings #awardwinner #checkmybling #aocawards #fabulousdarling #bling https://www.instagram.com/p/Bxxbulzhbu7/?igshid=1xcc3ueazzf5
🎉🍾🍫 🏅 🎂📣🍫 🎊🥂🍫 🤜🤛🍸 Celebrating our results from @acadofchocolate! We're over the moon to have ALL 12 chocolates we entered be honoured in this year's #aocawards. Our entries this year focused on our #vegan chocolates. The aim was always to create #veganchocolate that is on the same level as non-vegan bonbons, so we're delighted that they received such recognition while being judged blind alongside non-vegan entries. Also a massive shout out to the wonderful @dormousechocs for giving us early access to their new #singleestate Indian bean-to-bar chocolate, which brought us a Silver Award for our #singleorigin India ganache 😘 #chocolatier #academyofchocolate #awardwinningchocolate #luxurychocolate #luxurylifestyle #britishchocolate #award #international #winning #chocolateart #chocolate https://www.instagram.com/eponinepatisseriechocolaterie/p/Bw9fGqKHoiY/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=iugo1inctmh9
It's the start of UK coffee week, so I'll be enjoying this coffee and cardamom #bonbon with a coffee in one of my many sensible mugs ☠☠☠ This bonbon just received an @acadofchocolate award. It also happens to be #veganfriendly. Even more reason to celebrate! ☕ #aocawards #coffeechocolate #veganchocolate #whatveganseat #chocolate #chocolatier #vegantreats #veganluxury #veganfood #eponinepatiss https://www.instagram.com/eponinepatisseriechocolaterie/p/Bw2Mwz_nUzR/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=13eyi1xpd0otv
What are we making today?..... 🤔🍫👊 #awardwinner #aocawards #whitechocolate #craftchocolate #chocolatemaker #Cacao #coldpressed #seedchocolate #staffordshire #instafood #instalove (at Stoke-on-Trent) https://www.instagram.com/p/BvhCmcKneCN/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=oez4qewphzlo
Guatemala Rio Dulce ganache - part of our craft chocolate collaboration range. Day 19 of #MarchMeetTheMaker - Dream Collaboration. There's a number of great chefs and chocolatiers who I'd love to collaborate with, but I'm a bit of a control freak so I'm not sure how well that would go 😂 My favourite collaborations are with other artisan producers, like this bonbon made with @duffyredstar Guatemala Rio Dulce chocolate. We did a second bonbon alongside this one using Duffy's Honduras Indio Rojo chocolate. The cocoas in these chocolates come from trees from the same gene stock, planted in 2 different location and producing very different flavour profiles. We developed a unique ganache recipe to bring out the full flavour of the chocolate and highlight the difference made by environmental factors or "terroir". Both bonbons received gold at last year's #aocawards, and we are now expanding the range with some other amazing craft chocolates, starting with a single estate Indian chocolate from @dormousechocs. As truffles go, these are a bit special. Look out for a craft chocolate collaboration box with all 3 origins coming to our web shop soon! #singleorigin #singleestate #chocolate #chocolatier #originchocolate #terroir #collaboration #eponinepatiss #instafood #instachoc #luxurychocolate #edibleart #duffyschocolate #dormousechocolates https://www.instagram.com/eponinepatisseriechocolaterie/p/BvMGKO0HDBV/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1u6tz3s4zi38k
