hey guys welcome to planning with crystal so today's unboxing is a really exciting
new subscription from hotel chocolate it's called the inventing groom so the idea behind
this it is a monthly subscription it costs 30 pounds a month including free uk delivery
and every month you will get a box of brand new items that have not yet been released at hotel
chocolate so hotel chocolate if you don't know the brand is a kind of high-end chocolate brand
that do some really nice well-made beautiful chocolates dark white light they do hot chocolate
they do alcohol they do biscuits they even do skincare and things now and it's a high street
store and obviously you could buy online and stuff as well so the idea behind this is they let you
into their inventing room which is what they call the place where they invent new kind of recipes
for chocolates and products at hotel chocolate so the idea behind the subscription is that
you've been invited to their inventing room and this is the very first box it's for october 2020
and it says there's limited membership boxes for bold chocolate tasters who want to see the
future of luxury chocolate and have a say in its creation welcome to the adventure so the idea is
every month you will get a selection of products and you get to try them and then you can leave
them some feedback online let them know what you think of each individual item is it something you
think they should release kind of in the stores is there any kind of tweaks and stuff you would make
there's also videos online from each of the chocolate inventors explaining why they came
up with or how they came up with this particular chocolate or item idea and it's kind of supposed
to involve you in their decision-making process so they get to kind of try the new products on you
before they decide whether they're going to launch them everywhere else so it's that little bit more
exciting than the kind of old hotel chocolate that they used to have where you just get
um a box of chocolates and again you just report back which she liked in which she didn't but they
were just like random ones that they had in store and stuff anyway so these are all a little bit
special because they might not all make it to the store so you might be trying chocolates that never
make it so it's quite exciting i think um there's also tasting tips so it tells you to avoid strong
flavors like coffee before you taste it tells you to cleanse your palate between each chocolate and
there's like little videos and stuff online little qr code that you can scan and you can also see it
when you're logged into your online account if you've got a subscription with them you can see
all the videos of all the products that are coming through that month and and you can also watch a
video about how best to taste and things like that and it says you'll get to see some like behind the
scenes footage of the inventing room and stuff like that so i don't know i just think it's quite
exciting and as it says it's a limited membership box so they will only allow so many members
and it says you'll have access to exclusive video content about your box with behind the scenes
insights and sneak peeks uh this month check out how to taste so it sounds like every month it
might be something extra that you learn and then it tells you a little bit about the team that work
in the tasting room they're also on instagram and stuff like that it tells you about all the
products inside this box you also get a kind of separate list and explaining obviously things like
ingredients and nutritional information and things you might need to know because like i said these
things are not in packaging because they've never actually been in the shop so first of all i can
see we've got this which is called pack a and what pack a contains is the filled selection so these
are four separate kind of chocolate items so i'm not really sure how many are going to be in here
and that's something that wasn't really clear when i went online to order this box it didn't tell me
how much of each item i'd get because the contents are actually a surprise so i wasn't really kind
of sure what exactly i was gonna get um for the money but i thought it was kind of exciting enough
for me to give it a go anyway but this way i'll be able to share with you what actually comes in here
which will hopefully then help you if this is something that you want to consider so it looks
like we get two of each product so the chocolates in this particular box are so chocolate number
one they're not in order that threw me for a second chocolate number one is a nut milk ganache
and a nut milk ganache is basically a chocolate and that is vegan so it's a vegan ganache and
it says nut milk isn't just a vegan substitute for milk chocolate but a chocolate in its own right as
soon as we created it roma knew this recipe would be the next on her must-make list is it creamy
enough chocolate number two is a salted caramel brownie it says ask taro where her inspiration
came from and she'd just say i love brownies and caramel this praline and caramel double layer
recipe won an academy of chocolate award but does it deserve a place in our sleeksters chocolate
number three is a maple and pecan pie we don't call taro the patisserie princess for nothing
it's always fun playing with a new ingredient and maple was a flavor she just had to try
i love maple and pecan danishes she said we first made this in a 40 milk shell but we think that 70
dark works better agreed you can just see the little dark chocolate show on there as well
and then finally in this pack and there's a few other packs as well there are these
little macaroon style chocolates so it's like white on one side and milk on the other with
like a strawberry inside so it's called the neapolitan macaroon vanilla strawberry and
chocolate all together in one what more could you want this take on the neapolitan ice cream reminds
adam of his childhood i'm from the 70s and it's 70s retro does this classic work as a macaroon
pack b these are mint malt balls so it doesn't tell me how much is in
this but there it is quite a big bag um so you obviously get more than just like two of it so
they do smell quite minty so the idea behind these is a bit like a malteser but with like
mint in there as well and it kind of looks like a that sort of multi-user refilling in there as well
so when kiryat reimagined this popular british chocolate she wanted more malty cocoa and less
sweetness this version comes with the tasmanian peppermint twist is it fresh enough for you it
really does taste like a minty malteser but it is definitely less sweet and the mint is a natural
mint rather than a really artificially mint taste if you know what i mean which
i guess is the mint oil like would get in um an expensive mint chocolate i guess because they are
expensive as a brand you know we're talking high quality stuff it's not just like a chocolate bar
you pick off the shelf at a shop it's a different kind of experience isn't it so i like the fact
that these bags are resealable as well so i may or may not have to eat them all at once then pack
number three we've got caramelized white puddles ooh so these are like a kind of caramel color to
them instead of oh that's what's more of a sort of white color with a bit of caramel flavor in there
it says i tried three different recipes before i got to the one you're tasting today says emma she
made this 42 white with single origin dominican republic cacao and caramelized milk and sugar
for this amazing color and flavor we think this could be a new chocolate genre what do you think
so that's a really interesting taste it wasn't really quite what i expected
the caramel flavor was within the chocolate rather than like i said just being that extra
thing that's added to the chocolate it was literally blended with the white so
you've got somewhere in between a caramel chocolate taste and a white chocolate taste
it's quite nice but it's very unlike anything i've ever tried before but i guess that's kind of the
point of this sort of box so i think i'll try a few more um and see what i think of them kind of
overall then we get um a cocoa hazelnut biscuit in 50 milk and you get two little individually
wrapped biscuits for that um which i like you do get at least two of each individual item
or more if you get the big bags and stuff so the great thing about this as well with being
individually wrapped is if you actually can go anywhere you can always take one with you as well
but i'm gonna have this a little bit as a kind of tasting experience so i'm going to actually
try these chocolates and different things with the videos that they've made where they describe the
flavors just to try and learn a little bit more about chocolate rather than just stuffing my face
with chocolate which i can totally do because i love it especially hotel chocolate chocolate
anyway so these are the cocoa hazelnut biscuits in 50 milk and it says the inventing room's favorite
biscuits i wanted to push the chocolate boundary said rhoda of this one she added cacao nibs and
powder and then took it to the extreme with some chunky 50 milk do you like it as much as we do
let's have a look at this one
oh look at that so it's like a full-on chocolate biscuit that is seriously cool i like that that
is a seriously cool looking biscuit and this is what the middle bit looks like
so you really get that kind of chocolate shortbread flavor there's a lot going
on with this one and then it's also got little cocoa nibs and nuts in here as well
and that chocolate's just and then finally we have got
these hot chocolate sachets so these are the tanzania columbara hot chocolate so i've actually
got a hotel chocolate velvetizer which is a hot chocolate maker i love it it's brilliant so i
will make this hot chocolate in that and then we can try it and see what we think it tells us that
the cacao comes from coco camille translation coco precision a supplier whose ethical values match
hours paying farmers 25 above the market rate it wasn't like a dark chocolate it's also emma
it's so creamy you'd think it was milk delicious new chocolate here is the hot chocolate that i've
just made in the velvetizer just put it in this mug because it's see-through so you can kind of
see it but you can just see how it creates that incredible foam it all just blends together nicely
oh i'm to say this again but it is something a little bit different everything i've tried
in this box so far has been different to the norm i suppose so i've tried a lot of hotel chocolates
and hot chocolates they are a grated chocolate consistency so chocolate flakes
not like a chocolate powder so you know they don't just add a load of sugar and
call it hot chocolate it is pure chocolate and with just little bits kind of added in
and this i can kind of see what they mean so i'm not i like dark chocolate but for some reason i'm
not a huge fan of dark chocolate hot chocolate but this despite having the dark um kind of stuff
in there it's like it literally is like a cross between a dark and a milk chocolate it's a very
sort of different taste and you would definitely not think it had the 80 dark in there at all
because if it did it wouldn't really be something i'd love personally just really really different
you do kind of get the bitter on the sort of back of the tongue
and then the sort of lighter creamier flavor at the front of your tongue yeah i'm i like this
it's very very different there's no way i would have picked it up in store because it says it's
80 dark i've had the 85 dark hot chocolate and it's a little bit too bitter for me
this is very different but i would never have picked it up just because it said that on the
packet so i guess that's another great thing about this box it's encouraging
me to try things that i wouldn't otherwise have picked up and but it's very very nice
and the only problem with the box is you might get to love um a particular product that if they
decide not to release into shops literally might be your only chance to have it so that would be a
little bit of a shame so um yeah hopefully the items that i love like this hot chocolate will
end up in a store near you soon so what do i think of this box like i said it's the first one
and yes it's 30 pounds it's quite a lot for a box of like a few chocolate things
but i think it's a really nice kind of treat to yourself and if you ask somebody who appreciates
really nice kind of chocolate products like i do i think this is a really exciting subscription i
think it's really something a little bit different it feels a little bit special
you're not just getting chocolates i really like the fact that as well as chocolates you also got
hot chocolate and you got biscuits and i hope that they continue in that vein rather than
just giving us a box of biscuits i've just given us a box of chocolates i've just given us a box
of hot chocolate i like that kind of variety so i really hope that they continue to do that
and it also gives you a little bit of a hint of the november box look away now if you don't want
to know what's going to be so in the november box it says be the first to try caramel milk chocolate
made with colombian beans our new pillow biscuit our granular nut milk and even a taste of what we
hope will be the best chocolate peanut spread in the world get ready for november i do love peanut
butter so hopefully i mean that gives me a clue so we're gonna get chocolate we're gonna get biscuit
we're gonna get um chocolate spread so hopefully we're gonna get that little bit of variety that
i'm after so hopefully it will be another fun kind of box like this but like i said i think
how i'm going to enjoy this like it's not sort of chocolate so you're just going to stuff in
your face all at once while watching netflix i'm gonna try and take the time to enjoy the different
chocolates and like i said watch the video and and sort of listen to them talk about how they
came up with it and learn a little bit more about chocolate as well and then on the inside of the
box as well it does give you a little bit of information about the cacao bean but yeah i
really really like it i kind of wasn't sure how i was going to feel about the fact that everything's
in just in like some plain generic packets but actually it kind of makes it seem a little bit
more like they're letting you into the experiment and letting you into their tasting room to kind of
do these tastings and things together which is obviously the whole ethos and point behind this
box but i'm really really happy and i can't wait to see what's going to come in the november box
so i hope you've enjoyed watching this unboxing i hope it's kind of helped you discover something
a little bit different that perhaps you didn't know existed i mean i kind of stumbled across
this on the hotel shock shockalot website and i will link um the details into the video so
if you do want to check it out and sign up like i have then you can go ahead and check that out
but if you do like hotel chocolate i have done an unboxing of the ultimate advent calendar which is
amazing hopefully this box here will stop me from cracking into the advent calendar before christmas
or before december and if you're into advent calendar unboxings i've done lots of them on my
channel and i've also done advent calendar reveals and things like that so i will link some at the
end of the video go check them out if that's your thing and i would love it if you'd give this video
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