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Treat yourself to Australia’s finest chocolate – delivered direct to your door

JASPER + MYRTLE CANBERRA, ACT

This award-winning bean-to-bar chocolate company combines interesting and quintessentially Australian flavours to produce 15 bars, four drinking chocolates and chocolate-coated nuts and ginger. Order at jasperandmyrtle.com.au

MS PEACOCK BOWRAL, NSW

Everything is handmade on-site, with their creations championing local produce. Try the Joie bar: layers of sea salt butter caramel, peanut butter ganache and chocolate nougat. Order at mspeacock.com.au TEMPER TEMPER,

Chocolate lovers will appreciate the playful Rocky Road line. The Road Less Travelled is dark chocolate with macadamias and ginger, the Yellow Brick Road is white chocolate with pecans and apricots, and Route 66 has liquorice and ginger. Order at tempertemper.com.au

KOKO BLACK, MELBOURNE VIC

Koko Black prides itself on using native ingredients, such as local macadamia nuts and Tasmanian leatherwood honey. Or try the Australian Spirits Collection, an assortment box of 16 pralines infused with lemon myrtle gin, single-origin dark whisky, vanillaspiced rum and apple pie moonshine. Order at kokoblack.com

Edited extract from Lonely Planet’s Global Chocolate Tour (available at lonelyplanet.com and bookstores, $29.99).