Fix and Fogg, Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter

Combine Fix and Fogg’s famously hand-crafted peanut butter with Whittaker’s 62 per cent dark ghana chocolate and you get not so much a marriage of flavours as a wickedly naughty affair. Well roasted, slightly salty and deliciously crunchy, the Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter is the grown-up version of a spoonable peanut slab.

It could be ruinous, straight off the spoon, but there’s a feel-good factor in knowing it’s made with heart. Fix and Fogg is owned by Roman and Andrea Jewell (above), both lawyers who left the rat race behind when they set up their tiny nut buttery in a Wellington laneway. Part of the Conscious Consumers Network, they are committed to recycling packaging and reducing food waste. Local Wellington deliveries are made by bike and they give back to the community by regularly donating product to food banks and charities.

The business has recently expanded into a new factory but the range is still made by hand and the original basement premise in Eva Street remains open for casual sales. Knock on the window and bring your own spoon.