Hot chocolate melts and teal enamel mug

This enamel mug and hot chocolate melt set has us dreaming of campfires, letting the cup warm your hands, sweetness on your tongue, friends faces flickering in the firelight…

Good hot chocolate should be simple, but so often it’s too sweet, too bitter, or forms into strange powdery clumps that won’t dissolve even if you hit them with a teaspoon.

All of Refuge’s profits are donated to Flourish NI, a charity that works with victims of human trafficking in Northern Ireland. So your small luxury is someone else’s hope.

The whole team here at Different Kind have tried and tested Refuge’s chocolate-based range. So weird that this was the tasting session literally everyone volunteered for. Huh. 

Anyway, the results were unanimous. Tens across the board for Refuge and their founder and “chief potion maker” Tara. It’s delicious, this stuff. 

We’re also really impressed by Tara’s dedication to Flourish NI - she set up Refuge whilst working as a volunteer for the charity purely because she wanted to raise more money. 

Dark Chocolate (67%) cocoa mass, sugar, cocoa butter, emulsifier:  soya lecithin, natural vanilla flavouring.  Dark Chocolate contains:  Cocoa 54.5% minimum.  Sugar (33%).

Nutritional Information (per 100g): Energy 500Kcal, Fat 24g, Saturated fat 15g, Carbohydrate 64g, Sugar 62g, Protein 2g, Salt 0.01g.

May contain milk. Made in a kitchen where cereals containing gluten, nuts, milk and eggs may be present.  

With enamel (tin) mug painted with printed logo. Please note this mug is NOT microwave-safe. 

To prepare your hot chocolate:
(Based on 900w microwave)

- Put 1 Refuge melt into a microwavable mug
- Pour 125ml double cream into the mug
- Heat in microwave for 1 minute
- Remove mug from microwave
- Stir and break up the Melt with the spoon until a lot of it has dissolved
- Heat in microwave again for 20 seconds
- Stir until all Melt is dissolved

Instead of the above methods, heat the liquid in a saucepan on the hob. You may also wish to substitute cream for milk or a dairy alternative.