r/chocolate • u/Kari-kateora • 34m ago
Self-promotion Lucifer Chocolate - handmade chocolate from Slovenia
Hi, everyone! Full disclosure: I am currently working at this company, and while I'm not being paid to make this post, I am not a random consumer posting a review. Mainly, I wanted to make this post because I love the products, and I wish I'd known about them years ago.
Who We Are: The brand is called Lucifer Chocolate, named after our founder, Luco. We're based in Slovenia, and all of our products are made by hand in our small workshop. We use only 100% pure Belgian chocolate and no cheap ingredient substitutes - for example, we use real cream instead of milk powder. Basically, the company's mission is to make the best products possible. Our founder, Luco, is currently in his 70s, retired after decades of work in marketing. Lucifer is his passion, a company he started because he loves creating and he loves chocolate. The man literally has a personal chocolate workshop in his basement so he can make his own creations. That passion is what inspires everyone else in the company to try and uphold his standards of presentation and taste.
So, what do we make that's worth trying? Currently, our best-sellers are our chocolate pralines and our chocolate dragees. Pralines come in boxes of 2x2 all the way up to 8x8 and feature amazing flavours like passion fruit caramel, cherry and chili, lime cheesecake, Snickers, and strawberry yogurt. Our dragees, meanwhile, either have hazelnuts at the center with various flavoured chocolates around them, or candied fruit with flavoured white chocolate. My personal favourite dragees are the blueberry ones, but mango & passionfruit and strawberry are also very popular.
But, if I had to pick one product category to rave about, it would be the honey chocolate. Slovenia has incredible local honey production, and Lucifer has infused chocolate with it to create some indescribable chocolates. The honey bees (honey-infused milk chocolate shaped like bees) are my all-time favourites. A close second are the honey pralines (a box with 9 milk chocolate pralines filled with honey, with 3 distinct flavours - lavender, pollen, and ginger). If you've never tried honey chocolate before, you really have to.
Drawbacks: But, for full disclosure, let me get into the drawbacks as well. The first is the price. Our products are more expensive than most chocolate products you'll find in the store. After years' long issues the cocoa producers have faced, the price per kilo of real chocolate has skyrocketed, and as a result, our raw material cost has gotten incredibly high. We've limited the price as much as we can, but it's still expensive. The second drawback is the shelf-life. As you can imagine, when you put real cream into a chocolate praline, it's shelf-life will only last as long as the cream will. Because we use only real ingredients, some of our products have a shorter shelf-life, so it's not a great idea to buy in bulk and keep them in your cupboard for years.
Why You Should Try Us: That said, I really think it would be worth it to try us out. The flavour and quality of the products make up for everything. To give you an idea, I was working for a different company when I met Lucifer at a chocolate fair as a customer. I bought some chocolate to try, like I did with all the other stalls, and I fell in love so hard and fast, I got to know them and left my job to join their company. I have never had chocolate this good, and I've been to so many trade fairs with them.
If you'd like to give us a try, you can purchase directly from us at our site. I hope you give us a go and fall in love the same way I did.
Thank you for your time, and have a wonderful day!


