White chocolate
Marks and Spencer Swiss
125g, £1.19
Exactly the same as I use at Plaza Athénée. It's refined and delicious.
5/5
Sainsbury's
150g, 72p
It reminds me of the white chocolate I had when I was a child. It's good.
3/5
Divine Fairtrade
100g, £1.19, widely available
It's sweet, but not too sweet. It needs to be more creamy.
2/5
The Chocolate Alchemist
100g, £1.75, www.thechocolatealchemist.co.uk
Far too sweet - has a stale aftertaste.
0/5
Nestlé Milkybar
25g, 45p, widely available
Tastes of old milk and it's kind of dry. Much too sugary.
0/5
Milk chocolate
Divine, Fairtrade
100g, £1.09, widely available
This is good. It smells and tastes like milk chocolate should.
4/5
The Chocolate Alchemist
100g, £1.75, www.thechocolatealchemist.co.uk
It's got the right sweetness. Smells a bit of orange zest.
3/5
Tchibo
120g, £1.19 available at all Tchibo shops
It's not too bad, but it should be sweeter. Quite uninteresting.
1/5
Traidcraft Organic Fairtrade
100g, £1.40, www.traidcraftshop.co.uk
I don't like this one. It's too sour.
0/5
Lindt Excellence
35g, 59p, widely available
Tastes a bit plasticky. It's like advent-calender chocolate.
0/5
Dark chocolate
The Chocolate Alchemist
100g, £1.75, www.thechocolatealchemist.co.uk
Very intense, lovely tannins. Fantastic chocolate.
5/5
Newtree Pleasure
80g, £1.99 , Harvey Nichols, 0207 235 5000
Tastes of cocoa. Good for hot choc.
2/5
Orgasmic chocolate
50g, £12.70 for two, www.orgasmicchocolates.com
Too many flavours. Good, if you like cinnamon. I don't.
1/5
Rococo chocolat noir 60%
80g, £ 3.75, www.rococochocolates.com
Lacks character.
1/5
Sainsbury's
200g, 85p
This is not dark chocolate. There is far too much sugar in it.
0/5
Nutty chocolate
Prestat organic
80g, £3.60, www.prestat.co.uk
Absolutely delicious. A bit salty, giving the chocolate great balance.
5/5
Green and Black's, organic
150g, £2.49, widely available
Quality chocolate. I like the roasted almonds.
4/5
Orgasmic chocolate
50g, £12.70 for two
Smells of old butter, but tastes fine. Quite cinnamony, though.
2/5
M&S Swiss
200g, £1.29
This is a fairly nice chocolate but it's quite average. The nuts are too big.
2/5
Montezuma's surf nut
48g, £1.10, www.montezumas.co.uk
Macadamia nuts are good, but the chocolate is not.
1/5
Boxed chocolate
Pierre Marcolini
250g, £25.50, Selfridges
Not perfect, but very good. The filling is full of real flavours.
4/5
Green and Black's
240g, £5.99, widely available
Good praline fondant and a nice thin chocolate shell.
3/5
Prestat
215g, £13.50, www.prestat.co.uk
Looks and tastes factory made. Poor quality chocolate and filling.
0/5
Waitrose
265g, £7.99
The pieces are too big. They are too sweet and taste of too much alcohol.
0/5
Sainsbury's taste the difference
220g, £4.99
Very grainy. Typical mass-produced chocolates.
0/5
Truffles
Fortnum and Mason
270g, £25, 0207 734 8040
Not too bad. Tastes of lecithin, though. Seductive presention.
2/5
Rococo
210g, £12, www.rococochocolates.com
Too much alcohol in the filling, but nice praline. Average chocolate.
1/5
Somerfield so good
200g, £2.99
Far too sweet.Typical French Muscadine shape. Tastes better than it looks.
1/5
Waitrose
200g, £ 3.69
Exactly the same as the one before (Somerfield's).
1/5
Godiva
80g, £5.90, 020 7734 8113
A very simple truffle. Bad quality filling. Would have liked it when I was 19.
0/5
Chocolate spread
Nutella
400g, £1.35, widely available
Delicious! This must be Nutella. Nothing compares to Nutella.
5/5
Tesco, hazelnut
400g, 69p
Quite similar to Nutella. Not nearly as hazelnutty and creamy though.
3/5
Green and Black's
400g, £2.49, widely available
Nice and smooth. Lovely flavours.
3/5
Godiva
200g, £4.90, 020 7734 8113
Soft texture with a nice milky and caramel taste. Not fantastic, but not bad.
3/5
Cadbury's
400g, £1.38, widely available
Disgusting. Tastes very synthetic and smells of stale nuts.
0/5
Low-fat chocolate mousse
M&S count on us
70g, 49p
Tastes of milk chocolate. Really nice. It has a good texture and isn't too sweet.
4/5
Asda less than 5%
6x62.5g, 64p
Not impressed, but not too disgusted either.
1/5
Sainsbury's be good to yourself
6x62.5g, 69p
This is weird. It tastes of coconut, not chocolate mousse.
0/5
Tesco healthy living
6x62.5g, 64p
This is just air with a tiny bit of chocolate. It tastes mass-produced.
0/5
Weightwatchers
2x80g, 77p, widely available
Tastes too much of cocoa butter and I don't like the vanilla top.
0/5
Chocolate pudding
M&S fudge
400g, £3.49
This pudding is almost perfect. Great texture. Everybody would like this one.
5/5
Farm House Fare sticky
500g, £4.99, Selfridges, 08708 377 377
Light with a lovely chocolate taste. Nice sauce.
3/5
Asda sponge
450g, £1.98
Very good spongy texture. Would be perfect with a good sauce on top and some vanilla ice-cream.
3/5
Heinz
300g, 96p, widely available
Awful texture - it's far too hard. It has a strange smell and tastes of metal.
0/5
OK gluten free sponge
110g, £1.29, www.goodnessdirect.co.uk
Smells and tastes like margarine.
0/5
Brownies
Village Bakery organic
140g, £2.39, widely available
Like an American Brownie. Great flavour and walnuts.
4/5
M&S Belgian
175g, £1.99
Very good and intense cocoa taste.
3/5
Sainsbury's
99p for four
It looks appealing, but it's too dry and there is not enough chocolate in it.
1/5
Daylesford
100g, £2.25, Selfridges, 08708 377 377
Incredibly sweet and soggy.
0/5
Asda
98p for four
Nice, soft texture, but it smells and tastes of anchovies.
0/5
· Christophe Michalak is the World Pastry Cup Winner 2005-2007. He is resident Pastry Chef at Hotel Plaza Athéénéée in Paris, 00 33 0 15 367 6665
