A CHOCOLATE maker has been cooking up festive treats for people with a seriously sweet tooth.

Chris East, who runs The Chocolate Factory at Thornton-le-Dale and Hutton-le-Hole with his brother Gareth, has created a chocolate Christmas pudding.

Chris, 28, said: "It's something different at Christmas. If people want to pass on the pudding, but do not want to seem rude, they could have one of our handmade chocolates out of this hollow chocolate pudding decorated with holly leaves."

He has also created chocolate Father Christmases and chocolate mobile phones to add to the already popular range of Thornton-le-Dale ducks and Hutton-le-Hole sheep.