SHE could soon be known as Four Marks’ Chocolate Queen as Zara Snell, 19, is again entering a competition that could gain her fame as a top chocolate maker, as well a luxury trip to the spice island of Grenada.

The competition run by The Style Company in Petersfield is asking both professional and amateur chefs to create a special spiced chocolate bar. Last year it was for a salted chocolate and Zara came fourth.

Zara, who works on Saturdays in Petersfield Waitrose, is a student at the National Baking School on London’s South Bank, and on Saturday had the honour of making and presenting “a large amount of chocolate” to actor Timothy Spall on the set of his new film “Eye digress”.

The filming is taking place at Tower Bridge and in the scene, being shot with Zara looking on, the actor had to eat the chocolate she made. So it is not surprising the Daily Telegraph has named her “the one to watch’ as a rising star in the food world.

Andrew Mellon, who has run the competition for two years, says the 100 contestants entered would have their spiced chocolate entries judged in front of a large audience at London’s Olympia yesterday (Thurs-day). “There will be 40 judges and among them Marta Collison, who at 18 was the youngest person to take part in BBC’s Bake Off programme.”

A professional chef, Mr Mellon, who used to live at Hawkley, near Selborne, but is now based in Petersfield, where he founded his company, makes no money from the competition but just enjoys seeing people reach their potential as artists in chocolate-making.

He is sponsored by British Airways, Selfridges, House and Garden Maga-zine and the Island of Grenada.

One of the winner’s prizes is a luxury trip to Grenada next May courtesy of British Airways, to attend the International Chocolate Festival as a VIP.

A £2 donation from each £4.50p spiced bar will go directly to The Trussell Trust, operators of the National Food Bank Service.

As part of the competition Mr Mellon said he had just come from auditions for the new boy band ‘The Spice Boys’ and hopes that they will eventually have their own television show.

On Monday, with only three days to go before judging for the competition began, Zara, who lives with her parents, told the Herald she still had to make her special chocolate entry. “I have all the ingredients but I have still to put them together so I will be working flat out.”

She felt that making spiced chocolate was harder than last year’s salted caramel but was enjoying the challenge, although it was hard at the moment as she was working full time at chocolatier Paul A Young in London after being given an internship there for the summer.

Zara is also combining this with her university work at the South Bank where she is studying baking technology in preparation for a career as a professional chocolatier.