DORSET'S award-winning chocolatiers at Chococo are enjoying the sweet taste of success after winning six more accolades at the Great Taste Awards 2015.

The Swanage-based company has now won a total of 54 fine food awards for its chocolates since the company was founded in 2002.

Chococo was set up by husband and wife team, Claire and Andy Burnet 12 years ago, and makes all its fresh handmade chocolates from fine origin cocoa from the Caribbean, Venezuela, Madagascar and Vietnam.

The artisan chocolate makers also use local produce, including fresh Dorset cream, to make its mouth-watering creations.

Claire told Taste: “We were thrilled to win so many Great Taste awards this year. It’s a wonderful thumbs up for our team of chocolatiers who work so hard to create new and exciting flavours. We incorporate locally sourced ingredients wherever we can, to delight our customers. We are now acknowledged as being amongst the best in the UK”

The Great Taste Awards are organised by the Guild of Fine Food. This year the awards received more than 10,000 entries and after 49 days of judging, only 31 per cent of those entries received an award.

Judges included well-known personalities in the UK’s fine food industry, food buyers from retailers such as Harrods and Waitrose, and celebrated food media, such as Jane Curran, food director at Woman & Home magazine.

The company won two gold star awards for its Salt Sweet Smoke, a Cornish smoked sea salt liquid muscovado caramel in a dark chocolate dome - one of Chococo’s most popular flavours and Espresso, an ethically sourced Ethiopian coffee.

It also scooped one star golds for:

Perfect Passion – a zingy passion fruit set fruit puree layered with a fresh cream & Venezuelan milk chocolate ganache encased in a milk chocolate square.

Lemon Zing – locally made fresh lemon curd in a white chocolate ganache. The curd used is made by local Purbeck-based preserves maker. Rebecca of Rebecca’s Kitchen.

Sakura tea – fresh Dorset cream infused with Japanese green tea flavoured with cherry and rose petals, from Char Tea merchants in Winchester, blended with Madagascan Robert dark chocolate and encased in a Venezuelan origin milk chocolate dome. It has a naturally coloured white chocolate textured finish.

Outrageous Orange slabs – Venezuelan milk chocolate infused with orange oil, studded with candied orange peel and swirled with dark and white chocolate.