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Don’t forget if you are reading this now and live in the UK you could win some delicious chocolaty delights in the Hotel Chocolat best chocolate recipe competition.

One of my lucky readers will definitely win a yummy prize and then get entered into the grand final with the other winners.

Which of your favourite chocolate recipes bring people to their knees and elicits frequent requests for your secret formula?

Don’t delay, you have exactly twelve hours to enter your recipe here because at 1 minute to midnight tonight the competition closes and you turn into a chocolate pumpkin.

Deck the halls with chocolate and yet more chocolate!

Note: it seems that the competition has mysteriously ended early, if you would still like to enter please email me and I will try and pass any recipes on.

Tis’ the season to be chocolaty

Those fabulous chocolatiers at my favourite chocolate emporium - Hotel Chocolat are challenging you, dear gentle Have Fork Will Travel readers, to dig out your finest Yuletide themed chocolate recipes and see if you can win yourself a host of gorgeous luxury chocolate goodies.

Do eaters weep at your chocolate fondant? Is your Christmas chocolate log simply to die for? Do angels sing when you cut a slice of your double chocolate chip cake? Then why not put your recipe to the test against the rest of the chocolate-cooking country. And many apologies to my international readers, this competition is for UK residents only.

All you have to do is submit your recipe – the more original the better - and you could be the proud owner of some of their finest festive chocolaty delights. The lucky winner of the Have Fork Will Travel and Hotel Chocolat Christmas competition will also be automatically entered into the Hotel Chocolat Grand Prize recipe competition and could win even more seasonal chocolate goodies!

Do you think you’re the finest chocolate chef in the land? Well there really is only one way to find out, put your chocolate thinking cap on and ENTER HERE.

Happy chocolating!

Oh and your entry must be submitted to their site by one minute to midnight on December 12^th so hurry, hurry, hurry.