
Our reading tastes are deeply personal, and as such a book is always a difficult gift to buy for a partner.
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Read our full review of the Hotel Chocolat velvetiser Buy now £99.95 The salted caramel is our favourite, a sophisticated and distinctly grown-up flavour.Ĭast in a slick matter charcoal (other colour options include white, and a shiny platinum), the set also comes with two well-made ceramic cups, perfect for a his and hers sweet treat. It looks like a kettle with a handle and is super easy to use: just tear open your chocolate sachet from the selection box of 10 different drinks, pour the shards of chocolate inside the sachet into your velvetiser, add some dairy or plant milk and watch it stir it all up into warm, smooth chocolate heaven. However, so as not to be too cliché, we’ve thought a little bit out of that box for this indulgent choice, looking instead to one of the most buzzed-about gifts around – the Hotel Chocolat velvetiser.įor the uninitiated, this appliance is an at-home hot chocolate maker from high street chocolate giants Hotel Chocolat, made in conjunction with trusted kitchen appliance maker Dualit. Buy now £48 .ukĪccording to research by Mintel, 87 percent of men are chocolate lovers, proof that a box of chocolates is as failsafe a gift as they come. However, it’s that packaging that truly lifts this gift above the rest of the contenders on this list, quite handily saving you time on gift wrapping, and leaving you with more time to spend with your loved one shaking up your next cocktail. Expect to eke out around three good measures from a bottle, which themselves are things of real beauty, as are the little garnishes, the dried orange segment elevating the drink with its ambrosial scent, and the useful cocktail shaker that completes the set.

These include a bittersweet negroni, a punchy espresso martini, the gent’s classic old fashioned, and a robust Manhattan. Inside you’ll find a selection of three pre-made cocktails, which you can whittle down from the six options offered when ordering. For presentation from delivery, it’s hard to beat this brilliant cocktail set from premium independent Moore House, which has a real wow factor upon opening up the sturdy, tightly-packed cardboard box.
