As Fudge Kitchen prepares to launch a raft of unique new products and beautiful new contemporary packaging at IFE, MD Sian Holt reflects on two very busy years for the premium confectioners, which mark a confident and contemporary FK coming of age.
“Fudge Kitchen is in the midst of a radical overhaul of our ranges and our packaging, which is very exciting” explains MD Sian Holt. “It started last year with a rebrand of our seven shops, our bags and of our e-commerce website; and continues this year with a beautiful repackaging of our brittles and caramels range and of our themed fudge selections, giving them a range and brand unity and a contemporary uplift.”
“The products and flavours across all our ranges have also been carefully curated”, she continues, “to offer a wider span of targets in design, price points and flavours. And represent our continued focus on innovation and on developing and initiating emerging trends, which includes the vintage one that refuses to go away.”
Across three sizes of nine, 15- and 24-piece selections, covering a total of nine themes that range from Boozy to Cream Tea to Best of British, there is a selection for everyone. Each premium box is packed with handmade, gourmet butter fudge, made in small batches by an artisan team using all-natural, gluten free ingredients; each piece individually hand decorated.
And all three lines have been given an elegant rebrand by Let’s Talk design studio, continuing FK’s pretty new pastel palette, luxury foiled features and signature bronze, satin ribbon; here doubling as a pulley for an ingenious drawer reveal feature.
Sharer selections …
A hopeful title (we can’t see much sharing going on here), but each selection features 15 substantial squares of artisan fudge in five unique flavours, across a range of four iconic themes.
Prepare to be transported back to the days of skipping ropes and half-mast socks, via five retro sweet flavours: Pear Drop, Parma Violet, Lemon Sherbet, Blackcurrant & Liquorice and Rhubarb & Custard, all perfectly reproduced in artisan fudge. Nostalgia in a contemporary box.
The eternal winner of sweet and salt is given an FK upgrade with a selection of artisan salts combined with perfectly complementary gourmet butter fudges. Take your pick from enrobed Dark Chocolate with Rock Salt, Rich Chocolate with Chilli Salt, Maple with Smoked Salt, Butterscotch with Sea Salt or Caramel with Fleur de Sel.
A confectionery cocktail cabinet of delights, comprising Great Taste Award-winning Juniper & Kefir Lime Dry Gin, Spiced Rum & Raisin, Espresso Martini, Whiskey Mac and Strawberry Vanilla Vodka & Black Pepper, featuring artisan tipples from Kentish micro-brewers, Nip from the Hip vodkas and Anno gins.
Five firm favourites, including two Great Taste Award winners in Sea Salted Caramel and Penuche Butterscotch, which are joined by Strawberry Jam & Clotted Cream, Chocolate Fruit & Nut and Traditional Toffee.
Squares collections …
Nine pieces of artisan butter gourmet fudge across three ranges that celebrate tradition and Britishness (with the odd exotic, leftfield number thrown in to keep you on your toes).
A celebration of some of the recipes that put the Great in front of Britain. Make way for Cherry Bakewell, Apple Crumble, Clotted Cream, Traditional Vanilla, Chocolate Fruit & Nut, Stem Ginger, White Chocolate & Raspberry
Bristling with awards, classic flavours and best sellers, this is a crowd- pleaser line-up of Clotted Cream, White Chocolate & Raspberry, Café Mocha and Chilli Chocolate, alongside Great Taste Award winners Sea Salted Caramel, Double Trouble Chocolate, Hazelnut Praline, Peanut Butter and Sticky Toffee Pudding.
Featuring hand blended teas from Kentish tea specialist Debonair Tea Company and some teatime all-time heroes, you can almost hear the clink of silver on porcelain. Will it be one lump or two of Persian Chai, Apple Crumble, Cherry Bakewell, Lemon Tart, Strawberry Jam & Clotted Cream, Chocolate Brownie, Earl Grey or Great Taste Award winners Sticky Toffee Pudding and Hazelnut Praline?
Signature selections …
A new addition to the FK confectionery canon, the Signature selection is packed with a super indulgent spread of 24 generous pieces of FK’s most popular, award-winning and distinctly British flavours; and is available either in a Union flag-bearing or a classic bronze foiled, magnetised box; ready to target any celebration or consumer.
Amongst the 12 featured flavours doubled up within, are five prestigious Great Taste Award winners: Sea Salted Caramel, Double Trouble Chocolate, Peanut Butter, Butterscotch and Sticky Toffee Pudding. They are joined by Traditional Vanilla, Enrobed Dark Chocolate with Rock Salt, Café Mocha, Stem Ginger, Chocolate Fruit & Nut, Cherry Bakewell and White Chocolate & Raspberry; completing a comprehensive masterclass in artisan fudge-making.
