Original, Vegan & Spiced Collections, with flavours such as Rich Vanilla, Salted Caramel, Indian Rose, & Double Chocolate. All FudgePots fudge is handmade, vegetarian or vegan, and free of gluten, palm oil and artificial colours & preservatives. The Original Collection offers perennial favourites such as Rich Vanilla, Double Chocolate, and Christmas Cake. The most popular flavours are Vanilla, and
Salted Pistachio (maybe because it’s made with Himalayan pink rock salt - nothing but the best here). The Spiced Collection uses Indian spices to create layered flavours not found anywhere else: fragrant, piquant and savoury-sweet. The Vegan Collection stands out because most of the flavours were invented as original flavours in their own right, using plant-based Indian cookery skills, rather than just adapted from the dairy range. The most popular vegan fudge is Choco Coco (chocolate coconut) which is our third most popular flavour overall (it seems non-vegans enjoy it just as much as vegans). FudgePots was dreamt up by Rita, whose Bengali father brought her up to cook and enjoy all types of Indian cuisine, and Catrin, who is all-Welsh, and whose mother contributed our original fudge recipe. Food has been a driving force in each family and we wanted to use both influences to create something new. Rita spiced the first fudge with cumin, black nigella and white mustard. Catrin had been somewhat dubious about all this, but one bite was enough to change her mind! A posse of local amateur fudge tasters (the neighbours were always keen to help) also loved the sweet, spicy flavours. Armed with a trestle table, a ravishing fuschia sari and armfuls of fudge, FudgePots made its first public appearance at a tiny Christmas market in Penarth. Customers not only snapped up fudge on the spot; afterwards, they found the website and ordered more online. Even better, we were approached by two farmers’ markets, and started selling on a regular basis. After an exciting year of markets and food festivals, Covid-19 threatened to put it all to an end in 2020. However, when customers realised FudgePots could deliver across the UK (a very covid-safe way to give and receive gifts and treats), online sales shot up and word of mouth spread even more. Christmas in 2020 and 2021 were tremendous successes, helped by a very pretty new packaging design, which helped create a new range of gorgeous gourmet giftboxes. Since then, we’ve continued our online sales and attended the first few festivals to open back up after covid; we had a particularly great time at Abergavenny Food Festival, and nearly sold out at Llanelli Food & Drink. Fingers are now firmly crossed for the future and some fabulous fudge to celebrate
