The Snickers Slab

Our Snickers Slab has been gaining notoriety as each market passes…. I’m being begged for these bad boys, I’ve been sworn at when I’ve sold out too fast… Hell, I’ve been held at gunpoint at the cooker til I’ve made a fresh batch of that delicious peanutty craziness. Ok some of that’s lies but it’s painted the picture. They are loved as much as Ant and Dec (still my favourite people after all these years) – they are a national treasure. Or a local one at the very least.

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Like any good thing you can never have too much. So what to do in between markets? What to do when you have to go to Auntie Joan’s 87th birthday shindig and can’t make the next market?! What to do when your car battery’s flat and the trains aren’t running because there’s leaves on the track?!?!

Firstly, have a little cry. There, there. Secondly, grab me on Twitter, Facebook or on sales@thechocolatehut.co.uk – tell me your woes and I’ll sort it. For a mere 10 of your English pounds you can have your very own small tray of Snickers Slab delivered to your very door. It will come all packaged up and smiling at you to brighten your day… Or you could always brighten someone else’s day! (How strong are you…). You even get a handwritten little note from me! (Autographs are extra..)

So to recap. You love Snickers Slab. You want Snickers Slab. Contact me. I send you an invoice. You pay me £10 via the money gods PayPal. I send you your very own, freshly made, beautiful, lovely, tray of mental good stuff. And it comes through the post (and isn’t a bill – that’s amazing in itself.)

What are you waiting for?

Nic X

From Humble Beginnings…

I have so much I could write about as a first ‘blog post’ but think most appropriately we should introduce ourselves and get to know each other a little better..! So here we go.

My name is Nic, or Nicola, and I am The Chocolate Hut. I’m a one man band operating with a lot of help from family and friends to bring tasty treats to the general kentish public! The Chocolate Hut started as a dream in late 2010 as I stood making delicious sweet and salty chocolate bars for Christmas presents and testing fudge and sweet recipes from the Christmas edition of Good Housekeeping (I was 25 but old before my time…). The recipe for the sweet and salty chocolate bars is adapted but still used every week now, and I still have that crumpled page from Good Housekeeping.

By May 2011 I’d completed all relevant paperwork, and the show was on the road with our first ever event, Sweeps Festival, Rochester 2011. Positioned right next to a bandstand filled with questionable but extremely loud talent and battling galeforce winds that whipped plates filled with delectable chocolates and treats straight off the table, that first weekend was a definite learning curve – it certainly couldn’t get any worse!

Regular farmers markets followed and the direction of the business changed week by week, as we followed trends and tried to work out a winning formula! In 2014 we have our very successful range of Granola Bars. There are 7 varieties ranging from the classic Mixed Berry (cranberries, sour cherries, blueberries and golden raisins) to our newest member of the gang, Salted Peanut. They are all finished with a base of dark Belgian chocolate. We’ve also just launched our range of gourmet brownies – inspired by America, made in the Garden of England… More on these guys another time. ;)

– the chocolate hut

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