Craft chocolatier Treat Dreams has teamed up with The Ginstress and Gin Lane to produce gift boxes of four small chocolates each infused with gins made by Australian microdistilleries.

And one of the selected gins comes from Bathurst’s own Stone Pine Distillery on Gormans Hill Road.

“Handcrafted with care, each chocolate is created using artisan methods to deliver edible art sure to delight the lucky recipient,” Treat Dreams’ online blurb reads.

“Gift to a loved one, or enjoy yourself as an act of self care.

“Each box features four Australian craft gins infused into white chocolate ganache centres: Four Pillars Navy Strength, Hobart No. 4, Loch Weaver and Stone Pine Dry Gin.”

For more information, go to www.treatdreams.com.au but if you want delivery by Christmas then you need to place your order by Sunday.

IT’S sounds like the stuff of any child’s nightmare – hundreds of toys being destroyed by uncaring adults just weeks out for Christmas.

But the terrible scene at Sydney’s Macquarie Park was actually part of an annual pre-Christmas toy safety blitz by NSW Fair Trading.

This year Fair Trading inspectors visited 746 businesses across NSW and inspect 10,727 individual products, with a particular focus on toys aimed at small children and projectiles. 

They found 47 non-compliant and dangerous toys sold in retailers across the state – significantly lower than last year’s haul of 83 toys.

Small parts and choking hazards in toys aimed at children aged three and under were the most common dangers.

“Thomas the Tank Engine, Winnie the Pooh and Pikachu toys might look adorable, but if they’re non-compliant and unsafe, we must act to protect consumers,” Better Regulation Minister Victor Dominello said.

​”It is our job to keep the shelves safe – we make no apologies for that.”