ARJ Chocolate

Hello Everyone,
I know I haven't posted in ages but I'm still taking maternity leave. Aimee is now 15months old and to think I started the business when my eldest was 18months old now 9yrs old.

I'll be taking this Christmas off again but I haven't made the decision because I don't want to make the chocolate but I've also based it on costs because my old pricing of £2.50 per 80g bar would have to increase to a huge £4.00 per bar, I question whether anyone would buy chocolate bars costing that much.
And if no one did I'd be left with alot of stock.
There's alot of work that goes into my products from the ingredients labels to making I don't currently have the 7+ hrs a day I'd spend at Christmas season to spare I have about 2hrs. Which is alot less.

I hope you all understand but also on the other hand if you would pay £4 for a chocolate bar from us let us know because it would be interesting.

Best wishes and I hope you all have a wond festive season
Arrianne ARJ chocolate.

It's a little short notice and apologies for not posting for so long but we're on BBC radio Wiltshire at around 8:30am if your listening. We'll be chatting about the shelf life of Easter eggs. After one lady kept one for 90yrs! 😲

🎉🎉Happy New year everyone 🎉🎉

Raspberry, orange and hazelnut Brownie is in the oven. Aimee has been super good today and watched me sort the chocolate cupboard out.
I now know what I have and can offer.

I plan to offer the following
🍭Lolly making kits includes festive transfer sheet
🍭£6.00🍭

🎄Cracker kits (containing cracker boxes left from last year) this will be chocolate buttons to make and fill. Will include festive 100's and 1000's
🎄£7.00🎄

I have some bars of chocolate which will be posted up in a separate post.

🎄🎄Would anyone be interested in some make your own kits with either crackers or Christmas packaging should we have any left from previous years? 🎄🎄
This is something we could put together easily.

They would retail somewhere between £5.00-£8.00 if anyone is interested at all please comment YES 🎄🎄

We went to watch Trowbridge light switch on tonight, it's the first time since starting ARJ chocolate normally I have been in the civic centre selling all the wonderful chocolate. How I do miss making it this year.
But all the children and families did amazing with their lanterns in the lantern parade and the fireworks were lovely before we all headed home.
We'll be off down to the Christmas fair tomorrow to check the stalls out properly.

With Christmas coming up it feels so weird not to be part of any Fairs or making any kind of chocolate 😟 🍫 this is the first year in 7years we've not done anything (apart from covid - but we still sold directly)
This time last year we were getting ready for all of our events and up until very late packing and labelling.

If we get time we may make some small chocolate treats if anyone would be interested?

Taking a break this Christmas.....

Dear all customers we've now decided that we are officially taking a break this Christmas to watch baby Aimee grow up but we shall be back next year when the time is right.

Our opening hours on website, page, and Google will all be updated as soon as we can.

As always if we make anything and have a recipe for you we'll put up a post 🙂

Making a one off box of chocolates for a wedding. Something simple because we haven't much chocolate in but working with what we have.
Baby Aimee is still asleep from the school run 😮

✴️✴️ CHOCOLATE SALE ✴️✴️
🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃🎃

🎃🎃Perfect for Halloween 🎃🎃
£2.00 large mixed bags of chocolate (14available)
£1.50 Peppermint boxes (6available)
£2.00 - 80g bag of 70% dark chocolate buttons
£2.00 - 80g bag of 58% chocolate buttons.

ONLY AVAILABLE THROUGH FACEBOOK
While stocks last

Hello everyone,
I know alot of you don't want to think about the dreaded c word just yet but...as you know we plan for Christmas around now.
🌟🌟🌟🌟
We need to ask all of our lovely customers what you think because as you know Arrianne had baby Aimee this year and hasn't made any chocolate since May this year.

🌲The decision for Christmas this year hangs in the balance and it's a big one because this year we will not be at any event's at all. (This first time in 6 years 😮)

🌲So if you are a regular customer would you be interested if a few of our best selling products from last year were available on a strictly made to order basis. (We're talking 4/5products max)

⬇️⬇️Please please comment below⬇️⬇️ this means alot to us because we just don't know what to do.

🌲Our business customer is yet to be approached but if they are wanting chocolate for Christmas this year then I can't see why we can't add a little extra on top if it's possible.

🌲One extra note to add if we do not make chocolate this Christmas it doesn't mean we will disappear or close, it just means Arrianne is watching baby Aimee grow up and when she's old enough we will resume or when it is possible too.

So...the cake yesterday I got round to baking it and taking out the oven. Quickly made buttercream and then that was it.

I've been up since about 5:30am fed Aimee and then it was time to get the school stuff and breakfast ready but I had some extra time ...
What do I do at 6:30am on a Thursday
Voila finish the cake.

It was supposed to be filled with marmalade I had none of my homemade stuff left so it was filled with homemade blackberry jam from last year.
Can't wait to taste.
For the recipe see my last post.

Hey everyone
I hope your all well?
So today I'm trying to make a cake as we've tons of egg's from magic bags bought at weekend. I mean like 5 boxes 🤣

We went. Blackberry picking this morning and found just enough for the cake 🍰
Baby Aimee was as good as gold while I was mixing it up and stayed quiet enough just until they it went into the oven and then she was hungry.

Fingers crossed we can get it done in time.

Blackberry & orange cake Try a twist on layered sponge cake with blackberries, zesty oranges and marmalade in place of your usual filling. Pipe the topping for a professional look

God bless the Queen. Such sad sad news.

Hi all
Keep a lookout on too good to go app,
I'll be adding magic bags to clear out any leftover stock that's still good to eat.

Also over the coming weeks I'll be figuring out whether I open for Christmas or not.

Too Good To Go

Hello Everyone!
I hope your doing well, not going to stir crazy now we're at the end of the summer holidays! Only a few more days left to go until school starts safe to say we'll be glad if a routine.

We just wanted to let you all know as over this week alone we've seen at least 3-4 local businesses post their sad news that they are having to close due to the rising costs in energy for commercial businesses. At least 3 of them have been in Trowbridge, and many others having to make tough decisions.

We wanted to let you know that because ARJ chocolate is run from home we do not plan on closing the business although Arrianne will still be on maternity leave until further notice, until baby Aimee is a bit older.

Take care everyone, and we shall be posting up next week with some clearance chocolate.

Hello everyone just wanted to check all my followers are doing ok?
I have some stock leftover from when I was making chocolate before baby arrived so if anyone is wanting some reduced chocolate 🍫 please let me know and I can do a deal for you.

Here's a little pic for you now that baby Aimee is 5weeks old.

Chocolate hasn't been made for so long now and you all know why.

Welcome baby Aimee Grace to the family
Born Friday 22nd July at 7:02am
Weighing 10lb 6oz

Mum and baby are doing well and hoping to be home soon.

So although we're closed we did say that if we made anything we'd let you know.

Bourbon biscuits and custard creams cutters are dexam biscuit cutters recipes were found online.

So we are officially taking a break now with baby due in 2weeks! We will be updating the website so no orders are placed now and will let you know when we are back open.

Have a lovely summer everyone and you'll be updated when the new arrival comes.

Thankyou to everyone who came to box revels craft fair today and bought chocolate off us.
Very surprised at how many people turned up today there was never a quiet moment.

This is definitely our last chocolate event until later in the year. However with what's left when it's been sorted through they'll be some magic bags on the Too good to go app.

Enjoy the rest of your Jubilee weekend

We said before about keeping you posted if we made anything today we tried a union jack cake made a basic cake recipe and coloured it as I didn't want to follow the one in the book because it uses 12 eggs 😮
I have place the angles slightly wrong on the top layer but it's worked....and tastes good too 🤭

Now I know we said it was our last event....well we still have some stock left to sell so we are in Box on 3rd June.
See picture for more details.

We just realized our last 2 posts were posted on the wrong business page. Originally meant for ARJ - Sewing you can tell baby brain had truly set in!!

Thankyou to everyone who bought chocolate from us today at the Corsham Creative Market it was our last event until late 2022 as you all know I'm taking time off to have a baby and spend time as a family.

I do still have some stock left so see pictures below most of which have prices on.

80g Chocolate bars £2 each
40g chocolate bars (only dark available) 75p

3 hot chocolate spoons £1.50 each
1 bag of low sugar stars £2.00

Box of peppermint spheres £1.50 (happy to sell in bulk to businesses) please contact us

2 packs of bubbly dark chocolate orange bar £1.50

Sharing bags 3 for £7.00

I also have the giant chocolate button's 30p individually but I think I'm going to bag them up in either 5's or bags of 10.

5 X Lollies 75p each

We shall also be putting up some magic bags on the Too Good To Go app so do keep an eye out on there in the next few weeks.

If anyone would like to buy please comment below with what you would like and we'll be in touch.

Have a lovely rest of the weekend.

Sharing bags £3 each or 3 for £7

Dark chocolate orange bubbly bar 2 for £1.50

80g bars now £2.00 each
40g bars 75p each

Dark chocolate peppermint £1.50 a box

While stocks last.

We are back in Corsham for 7th May 11-3pm

This will be our last event until around October time. As we are trying to sell off all our stock before baby arrives in July.
We will more than likely have some chocolate bars left which we will leave available on the website to purchase.

Good evening all, we hope everyone has had a lovely Easter break schools are back on Monday so all of us with children might be able to have a small break!
Our next event is in Corsham on may 7th it will be our last one for the year until after baby arrives.
We so still have quite a bit of chocolate Available to purchase lots of chocolate bars, and our giant chocolate buttons.