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16/03/2012 18:12 | By Craig Butcher, content editor, MSN Food
Chocolate boxes for Mother's Day: tasted and rated

Tasted and rated: the UK's best boxed chocolates



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We've tried, tasted and rated a huge variety of boxed chocolates to bring you the UK's best boxes of chocolates. All are easily available from major supermarkets or high street shops around the UK and all are reasonably priced. But if you'd like to cut down on the cost, many come in smaller boxes. Easy.

Nothing says 'I'm giving you a gift I'd like for myself' quite like a box of chocolates. So this Mother's Day, give the gift that keeps on giving - provided there's a hidden extra layer of course. You never know, you may get to eat some yourself.

We called on four of MSN's finest tasters to rate the chocolates. Each taster rated them, giving scores out of 10 for: taste, appearance and overall. The panel was: Craig Butcher, MSN Food editor; Sarah Hecks, MSN Her fashion and beauty editor; Monica Stylli, MSN editorial producer; and Jackie Hillsdon, MSN Food web producer.

The highest total score possible was 120. So which was crowned the UK's best box of chocolates? Click through the gallery to find out.

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Up Thornton's chocolates!  Their chocolates are for any time not just for special occasions! yum!
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I treated myself  to some Dairy Box recently because they were on offer at Asda, never tried them before.  Well what a lovely surprise.  They were so nice I hid them in the wardrobe because I didn't want to share!
14/03/2012 19:46
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How about trying Saunders Chocolates handmade in Penrith Cumbria delicious!! Available in our shop.
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Just remembering your mum is the most important thing. Wish my mum was still here, knowing what I know now she was worth a million. Every day is the day your mum should be thought of.
14/03/2012 15:15
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Where are the Lilly O'Briens best chocs I have tasted for ages
14/03/2012 21:53
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Black magic have no magic anymore says my wife they have dwindled in taste and selection over the years.

14/03/2012 18:44
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I agree with Vivb - Lily O'Brian chocolates are the best ever
14/03/2012 18:57
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well the best i can do for my mum is cadbury flake box of choccies and she says they are fabulous!

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No Class, My mums worth more than a trip to Tescos or a flashback to 70's trying out Black Magic again. I'd got to Hotel Chocolat and get something special.
14/03/2012 23:52
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thanks wendy shill, trying saunders in penrith
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This form of chocolate is the end result of a spirituality barren, reductionist society in which the sole aim is the repetitiveness consumption of material goods, no other realm is tolerated.
Real chocolate contains both corporeal & psychoactive chemicals, which means its good for both your body & spirit and its vegan compatible, or in more vernacular terms, chocolate is a true su*er food and s*per drug.
Its why the Mayans and Aztecs give chocolate great religious meaning.
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