Booja Booja's Free From Organic Confectionery
The Booja-Booja Company is an independent manufacturer of delicious, organic, dairy-free confectionery.
All their products are made by a small, dedicated team on one site in Norfolk but they are sold in delicatessens, health food shops, farm shops, fine food halls and gift shops throughout the UK and Europe.
Everything Booja-Booja makes is organic as well as being dairy and gluten free.
But that's not to say that they compromise on taste; on the contrary tasting absolutely mouth-wateringly delicious is the number one criteria for the Booja-Booja brand and the company has won more than 50 Awards across their ranges so it must be doing something right.
There are three product groups in the Booja-Booja family: delicious Chocolate Truffles, a sumptuous Alternative to Dairy Ice Cream and raw, unprocessed Cacao Nibs and Beans.
Last autumn Booja-Booja launched two brand new ranges of chocolate truffles, including 3 exciting new flavours.
The Four Corners Collection features 3 popular favourites: sumptuous Champagne Truffles, delightful Hazelnut Crunch Truffles and aromatic Around Midnight Espresso Truffles alongside the brand new juicy Stem Ginger Truffles, succulent Rum Sozzled Sultana Truffles and scrumptious Banoffee Toffee Truffles.
Also new is The Artist's Collection; an exquisite range of wooden gift boxes handmade and painted by artists in Kashmir, India and containing award-winning Booja-Booja truffles.
Booja-Booja's relationship with the Kashmiri artists' company Persian Dowry began more than 8 years ago and has grown from strength to strength to become one of the cornerstones of the current business.
Persian Dowry is a business that started out selling artefacts to tourists on behalf of many skilled artisans in Kashmir. However, the divide of Kashmir between Pakistan and India has caused decades of unrest in the region, leading to a permanent decline in international tourism.
The lack of tourists has lead to a downturn in value of the artistic industry, and more and more young people have turned to more menial forms of labour that provide a steady and reliable income.
Booja-Booja works with Persian Dowry to concentrate on one area of art; their beautiful handmade and hand painted boxes. Persian Dowry started with a team of 30 artists and this has gradually grown to a point where they now hire 150 different contractors to produce the boxes, paint them, line them with velvet and then carefully check and pack them; all with no machinery.
The Booja-Booja Company also has strong links with a community of Cocoa Farmers in Ecuador, who produce the raw chocolate used in Booja-Booja Dark and Raspberry Truffles, part of The Chilled Collection.
This chocolate was the first ever chocolate to be produced by cacao farmers in Ecuador and was a result of five years joint product development and cooperation with the family owned business Pacari Chocolate.
Booja-Booja and Pacari have been working together for more than five years, getting to know one another, learning to understand each other's principles and discovering a shared passion for quality, sustainability and fairness.
The resulting truffles are not only delicious but a genuine innovation in fairly traded, sustainable development that The Booja-Booja Company is proud of.
As well as Chocolate Truffles Booja-Booja makes a truly gorgeous range of Alternative to Dairy Ice Cream. With 5 tempting flavours this range alone has won no less than 12 national awards.
Each flavour is made using just a handful of natural, organic ingredients - some raw - to create a variety of taste sensations to rival the very best luxury dairy ice creams.
With its stunning ranges, new-look packaging and an increasingly vocal array of fans making contact daily through the company's website and social networking sites Booja-Booja is going from strength from strength.
There are many more delicious, innovative delights in the pipeline, after all, as Mister Booja-Booja says "Everyone needs a little Booja-Booja now and then.
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