The holidays are not quite the holidays in our house without indulging in chocolate. Here you’ll find it in baking, under the tree, in stockings, put out for snacking, and sometimes even in advent calendars and hidden in my closet. We can honestly say December without chocolate is like coffee without the coffee beans. One of our favourite chocolates to have in the house during this time is the chocolate from Cococo Chocolatiers, a local manufacturer and retailer of sorts of chocolately goodness.
Cococo Chocolatiers, owners of Chocolaterie Bernard Callebaut, are based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada and offer their products exclusively at over 30 retail stores in Canada and the United States. It’s also available for online purchasing (winning) and they offer up some tasty recipes for you to try using their chocolate. Recently these guys took home prizes at the Canadian National Chocolate Competition, a nationwide arm of the International Chocolate Awards, including Gold, Silver and Bronze in numerous categories.
There are so many beautiful items to choose when you visit their stores or shop online (Bernard Callebaut), that it’s sometimes hard to choose and even harder to leave with just one item. I am especially fond of their fusion chocolate bars, sea salt caramels…..salted peanut butter chocolates..and well the list might be longer than expected.
So today is Friday and I’m so excited to be offering you the chance to win some Chocolaterie Bernard Callebaut Chocolate just in time for the holidays! We are giving away three prizes on the blog so you have a chance to win 1 of 3 delicious prizes!
First Prize is A Stylish Advent Calendar. If you like chocolate, then you’ll love this take on the holiday classic. For 12 days before the holidays, you can sit back and enjoy selections including flavours like Honey Anise, Apricot Jelly and Nutmeg Orange. The Cococo 12 days of Christmas chocolate box celebrates the holidays in style. A perfect gift!
Our second giveaway is the Tidings of Chocolate Traditional Chocolate Yule Log. The holidays aren’t the holidays without friends, family and a table full of treats. Only available during the holiday season, Cococo Chocolatiers, owners of Chocolaterie Bernard Callebaut® offer a traditional chocolate Yule Log that you will want to add to your holiday spread. Packed with a selection of individual chocolates, this holiday favourite comes in various sizes and can be filled with 16, 24 or 35 chocolates. Yum right?
Our third prize, and a personal favourite giveaway is not one but two Chocolate Bars That Rival Willy Wonka. Experience a new kind of chocolate bar with exclusive spiced fusion bars. These unique bars are infused with various spices and finished with Habanero Sea Salt. With flavours that include Oregano Fusion in dark chocolate and Rosemary Fusion in milk chocolate, these bars are the perfect addition to any holiday charcuterie board or glass of wine by the fire. I agree, they are the perfect accompaniment to a glass of red anywhere.
Enter this amazing chocolate giveaway below. It’s open to Canada only (excluding Quebec – sorry!) and will run until Friday, December 11th, 11:59pm. At that time 3 random winners will be selected and notified by e-mail. They must respond within 48 hours. Winners will receive their chocolate directly from Cococo Chocolatiers.
Thank-you Cococo Chocolatiers, [Chocolaterie Bernard Callebaut] for providing samples of this incredible giveaway, and for sponsoring this post. As always, all opinions remain my own.
I like to swirl chocolate into my cheesecakes! ps I’ve been waiting all week for you to post this 🙂
Angie
We have Cococo here in Edmonton and it is our favorite place. We love to buy their chocolate shavings and chocolate bars. That oregano fusion sounds delish!!
I love to add cacao or cocoa to smoothies!
I like to grate good chocolate on top of my strawberry cheesecake
I just love to eat chocolate! I dip shortbread in it
My favorite chocolate recipe is chocolate fudge!
I love to add chocolate chips to my peanut butter cookies.
Although I will take any excuse to add chocolate to my cooking/baking, I do have a weakness for baking thick, fudgy brownies!
cookies!
chocolate chips cookies.
My favourit is White chocolate cheese cake.
I leave Chocolatiers to come up with sensual flavour combinations and beautiful pieces of art that I enjoy with a rich high quality espresso. But my own personal recipe favourite is chocolate torte with hazelnut meringue and salted caramel ganache. Also great with an espresso!
I’m a square lover and I top many of them with chocolate. I also love chocolate in cookies and zucchini muffins!
Love adding it to cookies and muffins!
my favorite way is chocolate covered fruit like strawberries and blueberries..bananas are nice nut must be eaten immediately
Chocolate in cookies, or a stick of chocolate in frothy steamed milk.
I love to make chocolate mousse or turn it into hot chocolate 🙂
It would be great to win a Cococo Chocolatiers Holiday Chocolate Prize Pack.
In response to your question of
What is your favourite way to cook or bake with chocolate?
My favourite way to cook with chocolate is
by making Fudge or a Chocolate Cake.
Thank you for having this giveaway.
I love to drizzle it over the top of cakes and cookies!
I love to make Chocolate covered peanut butter balls! mmm
We love making chocolate cake. So melting it down and then slowly mixing it into the cake makes my girls go crazy! Thanks for the awesome giveaway
I like to dip my baking in chocolate.
It is not easy to find Callebaut – but worth the drive to places that sell it!! The best!
Did you know you can buy it all on their website?! And get it shipped right to your door?! Yay!
I like everything topped with chocolate. So make brownies, rice krispie squares, nanaimo bars. Love soft chocolate frosting/icing/toppings.
Melting chocolate, dipping it in fruit and putting them on top of my cake.
Everything Gnache!! I adore gnache!
Love brownies or drizzling it over cookie. But this time of the year, chocolate fondue is where its at!
my favourite way to use chocolate in baking, is in cookies!! Easy but always a favourite in our house!
i like melted i make a 4 chocoalte cheese cake. i use chips for cookies
This is too difficult a question … but my favourite Christmas chocolate treat is my ganache tart covered in candied cranberries …. 🙂
I think my favourite way to bake with chocolate wold have to be in chocolate macarons. I still am addicted to macaron baking and a chocolate ganache with an infusion of fruit in a macaron is perfectly decadent for this holiday season.
That yule log looks pretty darn amazing! Though, I have to agree that their chocolate bar with the rosemary is quite good too! Then again, you can’t go wrong with salted caramel either!
I like to use it for chocolate cake
I love chocolate fondu!! I also like to bake double chocolate chip cookies.
I’m a huge fan of chocolate dipped bananas! I’ll make a big batch of them and freeze them when the craving hits!
my favorite way to cook with chocolate is with baking
I love chocolate fudge brownies
Love adding chocolate to my cookies, cakes and triffles
chocolate cake 🙂
I love adding it to my cookies. Especially in the Christmas season
I love dipping shortbread cookies in melted chocolate.
Love to make brownies!
I love to make and eat chocolate fudge
I love to make chocolate mocha balls dusted in powdered sugar. Brownies are another favorite of mine!
I like to drizzle melted white chocolate and dark chocolate over my rice crispy squares.
I make this salted caramel and chocolate torte that everyone loves.
It’s tough to pick just one way to bake with chocolate, but I love a good, classic chocolate chip cookie! I also love pain au chocolat but it’s way easier to buy than to make 😉
Definitely chocolate fudge!
I enjoy making chocolate pops for my kids. it is their favorite 🙂
favorite chocolate recipe is chocolate fudge
I like to make chocolate cake!
I love to use it to drizzle on anything I bake.
Chocolate cake!! Hands down.
Not exactly baking, but -one other favourite my grandma used to do – clusters of salted cashews covered in white or milk chocolate!! She had those candy dishes peppered all over the house filled with them! I’d be full before dinner.
Melting them down to drizzle over homemade biscotti!
I like to chop them up coarsely and then sprinkle them with a bit of sea salt on top of fudgy chocolate brownies before baking… as long as I can resist eating all the chocolate chunks first!
My favorite way to bake with chocolate is to put it in cookies.
I love to grate fine dark chocolate on top of whip cream on hot chocolate. Yumm!
My favourite way to cook or bake with chocolate has to be adding it to cookies and muffins!
Brownies and fudge!
I like to add chocolate to my breakfast smoothy.
Chocolate dipped pretzels, caramels or nuts with chocolate, fudge, brownies…. oh my, and chicken chocolate mole!!! YUM!
Looking forward to celebrating Christmas with Chocolate!
shortbread cookies dipped in chocolate!
making truflfes!
Nothing beats a good ol’ chocolate chip cookie!
I like to make brownies with good quality cocoa powder
Cooking with chocolate has got to be my Great Grandmother’s Chocolate chip cookie recipe! Soft, chewy and awesome.
rich, fudgy brownies
chocolate chips go everywhere, cookies, granola, cake, in my oatmeal, pancakes, waffles
Rumballs!