Booja Booja

[Steve]

MANUFACTURERS OF FINE ORGANIC CHOCOLATES

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The Original Range
Available in beautiful round wooden boxes that are a unique gift for lovers of fine chocolates. There are four single flavour boxes and two larger boxes - a Gourmet Selection box and, by popular demand, a new large box of Hazelnut Crunch Rocher – winners of the Soil Association Best Organic Confectionery Award in 1999 & 2003. The boxes are made from renewable poplar wood.

Single Flavour Boxes

Hazelnut Crunch Rochers
Hazelnut Praline centre with roasted hazelnut nibs and crispy rice – just simply the best as confirmed by the Soil Association in 1999 and 2003

Around Midnight Espresso Truffles
Delicious truffle made with freshly roasted organic coffee – probably the finest coffee chocolate in the world because it is made with coffee

Ginger Wine Truffles with Stem Ginger Pieces
Perfect for Ginger lovers throughout the world

Cognac Flambéed Banana Truffles
A deliciously smooth truffle made with fresh organic bananas inebriated with organic French Cognac

The Gourmet Selection
A selection of 5 flavours of 19 chocolates in a large wooden gift box

Champagne Truffle Box
Winner of the prestigious Guild of Fine Food Retailers Gold Award in blind tasting against all chocolates - organic, non-organic and dairy. Packed in a luxurious, original, gold and black square box with a changing selection of pictures on the top.

Champagne Truffles
A deeply luxurious truffle inebriated with organic Champagne


Luxury Gift Box
Receiving and opening a Luxury Gift Box is the full Booja Booja experience. This gorgeous gift box was honoured in the spring with the Soil Association Award for Best Packaging Design for an Organic Product. Each box is skilfully and painstakingly hand made and hand painted using traditional methods and local materials. The designs are intricate and sumptuous, full of delicate gold detail - each box is unique with some new designs for this year. Once inside you find a velvet-lined interior with a beautifully gift wrapped gold box with a selection of 30 chocolates (355g) and a menu card with some guidance notes.

We buy this art direct from the artists which supports them and their families struggling to survive in strife torn Kashmir. In the midst of these difficulties they produce these beautiful pieces of art. After enjoying some utterly delicious Booja Booja, the boxes will be treasured and used for much longer. The box is finished with a swing tab and ribbon - a truly beautiful gift.


Booja-Booja Easter Eggs

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Champagne Truffles in hand painted Easter Eggs
Winner of Natural Trade Show – Best New Organic Product Award. March 2003
Winner of Natural Products – Best Packaging Award. April 2003

Delicious award winning Champagne Truffles packed in exquisitely beautiful hand made, hand painted papier mache eggs bought from artists in Kashmir. These gorgeous eggs are skilfully and painstakingly hand painted using traditional methods and local materials. The designs are intricate and sumptuous, full of delicate gold detail. Each one of these large, 6” eggs is unique.

Buying these eggs supports local artists and their families, with whom we have direct contact, struggling to survive through difficult circumstances in strife torn Kashmir. In the midst of these difficulties they produce these beautiful pieces of art. After enjoying some utterly delicious Booja-Booja truffles, the eggs will be treasured for much longer. The truffles are packed inside the egg, which is finished with a swing tab and ribbon on the top - a truly unique and beautiful Easter gift.


The Original Booja Booja Easter Range
The original Booja Booja Easter Egg: contains a chunky 6” extra thick organic dark chocolate egg (150g) with a box of delicious award winning Booja-Booja chocolates (80g). It is available with either Hazelnut Crunch Rocher or Around Midnight Espresso Truffles. Beautifully presented as a sumptuously flamboyant gift without all the cardboard.


Unique Features
The entire Booja-Booja range has the following unique combination of features:
Organic
Dairy Free
Wheat & Gluten Free
Vegan and Vegetarian
GMO Free
Utterly Delicious


“These chocolates are absolutely delicious and the best I have tasted. Even my husband who won’t normally touch anything that is vegetarian, vegan and dairy product free etc. thought they were fantastic. In fact, I think he consumed more of them than I did, that’s why I need two boxes this time. Congratulations on a brilliant product.”
Karen M. (Customer)



Twenty Three Awards
Best Packaging Design 2004 – The Soil Association
Good Taste Award 2004 – 2 new awards
Best Organic Confectionery 2003 – The Soil Association/You Magazine
Best New Organic Product 2003 – Natural Trade Show Awards
Best New Packaging 2003 – Natural Products Awards
3 Good Taste Awards 2003 – Gold Award
Competing against organic and non organic chocolates
Organic Food Award 2002 – The Soil Association
Good Taste Award 2002 – 3 new awards
Organic Food Award 2000 – The Soil Association
Best New Organic Food Product 2000 – Natural Products Award
Good Taste Award 2000 – The Guild of Fine Food Retailers
Organic Food Award 1999 – The Soil Association

[Pam]

I really can say that these are delicious and well worth the money if you fancy a treat. The champagne truffles are my favourite and they almost fizz in your mouth! I also love the ginger wine ones and flambed banana ones even though I am not generally a fan of either ginger or banana flavoured things. I'm not keen on anything coffee flavoured and have never been a coffee drinker so I have avoided those ones (though I had a taste and didn't spit it out!). The hazlenut rocher variety are also delicious but being a true chocoholic I find that the nuts and crisp bits get in the way of chocolate indulgence - if I'm having chocolate I want all chocolate, not chocolate with bits of something else in.

Definitely worth splashing out on. If you're lucky you might find them in a health food shop near you, if not, then there are plenty of places selling them online, just shop around for the best postage deals. (If anyone finds a good deal please let me know)

In case you're wondering why I've tried so many of them, I used to sell dairy free chocolate but couldn't make it pay because I devoured most of the stock myself! I couldn't compete with the big boys so gave it up once I got a full time job but I enjoyed doing all the product research :drool: