The third in our collective attempt to snarf up all of Mr. Lindt’s finest creations, the Dark Truffe cake follows on from Crème Brûlée and Tiramisu – but is it worthy of membership of the Petits Desserts family?
There can be no doubting the pedigree of this particular chocolate family, as both myself and Dom have agreed that Petits Desserts are perhaps some of the yummiest chocolate to be found. We’ve both waxed lyrical over the quality of the ingredients and tried our best to convey to you the sublime taste sensations to be had from these bars, so I was (obviously) delighted to find that there are more of these. Admittedly, I did have to go to Holland to find it.
The box promises a ‘mix of milk and dark chocolate with chocolate Truffle cream and crisp biscuit pieces’, and that’s exactly what you get. The chocolate itself is as one would expect – meltingly lovely, creamy, rich and divine (in ways that other bars of that name would do well to imitate) – and the truffle cream is just so rich, dark and downright naughty that it’s hard to stop eating this one. The biscuit pieces are, like the Tiramisu bar, tiny, but add a lovely crunchy element to the whole taste experience.
Now, although this bar is a work of art, I felt that it didn’t quite live up to the promise of it’s predecessors, but in hindsight I think I’ve been spoiled by having tasted the other two first. The fact that Lindt managed to perfectly capture the tastes and textures of two classic desserts in chocolate bar form means that something like this seems a little, well, ordinary in comparison. This is not to say that this chocolate bar is anything other than delicious, just that it isn’t as exciting.
Still well worth a go for the truffle cream filling – it’s definitely exceedingly good cake.
It’s nearly a year since Simon reviewed Lindt Petits Desserts Crème Brûlée and I still haven’t seen it in any of my local shops. But much to my surprise and delight, this Tiramisu bar turned up in my local corner shop last week.
The poor bar looked so lonely and out of place, surrounded by common Mars Bars and the constantly growing (if slightly chavy) Dairy Milk family. I immediately decided to adopt young Tiramisu, knowing I could give her a better life.
In my tummy.
And I have to say this bar is completely deserving of its new home in my stomach because it’s utterly delicious. I don’t know how, but Lindt have managed to make a Tiramisu flavoured chocolate bar that actually tastes of real Tiramisu.
The chocolate is of course wonderful, being Lindt. It’s a milk chocolate with 30% cocoa solids. But the real star of the show is the filling, which somehow manages to be both soft & light and rich & crunchy at the same time.
I’m not entirely sure how Lindt manage to cram so much flavour in texture into such a small thin square of chocolate, but I assume some kind of magic is involved somewhere along the line.
The crunchiness comes from tiny pieces of biscuit, which are so small that they shouldn’t work in theory. Yet somehow they do.
The unfortunate consequence of all this is that this young bar did not have a particularly long life. But you can rest assured it was a happy one – for me, at least.
I think I can best sum up Lindt Petit Desserts Tiramisu in three words: I want more!
The BBC is reporting that Cadbury is recalling promotional packs of Dairy Milk Double Choc because of a ‘printing problem’ led to a warning for nut allergy suferers being left off the labels.
Of course it’s only 7 months since Cadbury last recalled products for exactly the same issue and the third time that the firm has had to recall products in the last couple of years.
Listen Cadbury, we love you and your chocolate, but this is getting a bit silly now. Get your act together!
So the good folks at Kraft have decided to update the Toblerone range again. We all know about the white and dark Toblerones, but now we have a Fruit and Nut version to add to the lineup. Curiosity led me to sample this one, as I used to quite enjoy the odd Toblerone and haven’t had any for ages.
A quick look at the package seems to indicate that the only difference between this and a ‘normal’ Toblerone is the addition of 12% raisins, something which can hardly be classed as a radical departure for Tobler/Kraft. It also rather begs the question “Why bother?”. Toblerone is what it is – milk chocolate, almonds, and those little fragments of nougat that home in on gaps and dents in your teeth and clump there for slow-release enjoyment long after the chocolate is but a distant memory.
The taste test seems to confirm just that – it’s a Toblerone, but with raisins. Looks, smells and tastes just like the ordinary Toblerone but occasionally you come across a nice juicy raisin to nibble on. Hardly radical though – a bit like putting honeycomb in a Mars Bar. It’s still essentially a Mars Bar but with an added taste you weren’t expecting and which doesn’t have a great effect on the overall taste of the product.
Personally, I think the difference here is so negligible that it’s unlikely that Kraft will se a sudden surge in sales of this product. Of course, too radical a departure would either alienate Toblerone lovers or just render the product un-Toblerone-like.
So, my verdict is that unless you really, really have a thing for raisins, stick to the original Toblerone. It’s been around forever and it isn’t broken.
