he rejects of the Christmas dinner plate, sprouts are often shoved aside to make way for roast potatoes and scoops of stuffing. But a self-styled Willy Wonka may have achieved the impossible task of getting children to eat their greens over Christmas – by covering them in chocolate.Chocolate shop owner and professional magician, Andrew Simpson, now has queues of curious customers lining up outside his shop to sample the new delicacy Truffle. The 51-year-old, who runs Simpson’s Chocolates at Elsecar Heritage Centre in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, came up with the idea following the success of his chocolate sprouts, which he introduced two years ago.
The eccentric chocolatier added that he is constantly having to tweak his secret recipe as each batch of sprouts can taste different depending on where they have come from and if they have been through a good frost or not.
Andrew said despite the large amount of sprouts he eats while making the truffles he will never get sick of them. 'I love sprouts and I hope by trying my Truffle Sprouts this Christmas more people will learn to love them. 'Unfortunately, although I have made them taste a lot better, I haven’t come up with a recipe which stops them giving you wind.'
Andrew, who is working on his latest creation – Marmite Truffles added: 'People say I am like a real life Willy Wonka coming up with weird and wacky ideas like this but I just like adding a bit of magic back into confectionery.'
