It's that time of the month again when I really could snog my postman senseless with gratitude.

For my Hotel Chocolat Tasting Collection has just today been carefully hand-delivered into my hands, from whence it is being carefully hand-delivered into my drooling mouth.

If my neighbours can hear me, they probably think that I have a very quiet and considerate boyfriend have bought some long-lasting batteries am drowning in a vat of Herbal Essences shampoo am doing something slightly naughty.

Because OH MY GODDDDDDDD!!! these are so siiiiiiinfully diviiiiiiiine.

I started with a petite and pure Cocoa Puddle. Brimming with creamy, yet intensely chocolatey flavours, its flawlessly smooth outer form disguises hidden sweet surprises as you slip in a little deeper to find tiny cocoa crisps, which encourage you to nibble away and let the sweetness spread slowly across your tongue...

Then a Cashew Chew, where a milk chocolate shell with a flirty slash of orange enrobes an alluring cashew and hazelnut praline, whose rich, luscious texture quite frankly makes me c..coo with desire. And that was before I made the unexpected but welcome discovery of a single slender sliver of dried apricot, bringing an enticingly fruity dimension to the Chew's lower regions......

And now I'm onto the Gianduja Bite, where fine Piedmont hazelnuts add a silkiness that is as enchantingly smooth as an Italian's tongue to the texture of the gianduja, while two small but perfectly formed balls of shortbread cookies bulge suggestively out of the too-thin robe of tongue-tremblingly intense dark chocolate, which barely keeps everything under wraps, in the most outrageously, flirtatiously, irresissssstable manner............

*ahem*

I think I'd better save the Whipped Cointreau Mousse for later.