Bear Silber at Sweet Sweet Confections sent us a mail letting us know that he’s running a competition to help promote his new candy store. Winners will receive $50 in cash and $25 worth of candy.
So what do you have to do to win this nice little prize..?
“Eat the most Sweet Sweet Smores Bars in 3 minutes”.
Now I’m all for helping out up and coming confectioners, but I’m undecided as to whether this is a completely genius idea or utterly stupid. I think I’m coming down on the side of ‘utterly stupid’, given what happened when a US radio station held a ‘hold your wee for a Wii‘ competion.
Obviously, you need to buy the candy from Sweet Sweet Confections in the first place – and I don’t even want to think about the health implications. In fact, I’m not enitrely convinced the competition would be legal here in Europe.
But given that winners have to video themselves eating the chocolate, it’s sure to generate a few laughs. Not to mention the odd heart attack and sugar induced coma.
So feel free to enter, but Chocablog can’t be held responsible for the consequences. And don’t come running to us if your legs fall off in a sudden attack of diabetes.
If you’ve read more than four of my reviews, you probably know that I have a lot of time for the chocolatiers at Lindt. To date I have yet to come across a bar of Lindt chocolate that was anything other than excellent, and they’ve managed to create some pretty stunning flavour combinations to boot. (I think by now I ought to be on their Xmas card list as well!)
Well, when I spotted this one on the shelf I knew it was coming home with me, although it didn’t appear to hold any exciting new flavours for my palate.
What this bar’s about is chocolate with a chocolate filling – a melting chocolate filling no less.When I read that 50% of he ingredients are either cocoa or milk, so I knew I was in for a creamy milk chocolate experience.
However, when the time came to open it up and have a taste, I discovered I had committed something of a faux pas. I attempted to eat this bar at room temperature, which wasn’t just a mistake – it was very amusing. The bar was so soft it had become impossible to snap along the guides, and I was left holding what appeared to be a rubber bar, bending it to and fro and giggling at the way the bar just refused to give. Of course, I shoved it straight into the freezer for half an hour or so, and upon my return I was rewarded with a much better behaved bar.
Now my ‘bendy bar’ experience had already given me a pretty good idea of what to expect from this chocolate, but I still wasn’t prepared for just how amazingly soft and creamy the filling of this bar is. It is quite simply divine. as soon as you bite into it, the square of chocolate begins to melt away, releasing the fondant filling, which is pretty much like the chocolate itself – smooth, rich, creamy, and dangerously moreish. If you intend to share this bar, buy more than one, and if you’re eating it alone – well, buy more than one. It’s not cheap chocolate, but it’s damned good chocolate.
Once again Lindt have come up trumps and created something unique and incredibly tasty. I believe I have already credited their chocolatiers with supernatural powers, and this bar does nothing to dispel that opinion. Another winner from the Swiss!
Here’s another of the Klik range of Israeli chocolates sent to us by OhNuts.com
Malt Balls are pretty much the same as Maltesers, except they’re smaller (about a quarter the size of a Malteser) and not quite as ‘malty’.
Personally I like the malty taste of Maltesers, but these don’t really have that distinct flavour. They’re very crunchy, and the chocolate is pretty good, but the centres taste of… nothing much at all. They’re made of a similar honeycombe to Maltesers, but they taste more like a biscuit.
That being said, they’re just as moreish as the Gourmet Truffles and I found myself constantly taking munching at them. And they’re very cute. Like the Truffles, I think these would be great for adding to a bowl of ice cream, but on their own, they just dont’t have the quality or flavour of ‘proper’ Maltesers.
As any regular reader will no doubt be aware, I always try and keep an eye out for unusual or different types of chocolate when I’m on my travels. I’m proud to continue this tradition by reviewing this bar of milk chocolate from . . . Wales.
Yes, Caldey Island chocolate is made in the Monastery on Caldey Island.
Unfortunately I didn’t actually go to the monastery. This bar was bought from the gift shop at the Welsh Parliament building in Cardiff. As you can see from the photos, it comes in a pleasant enough gold and brown coloured paper sleeve, with a rather interesting and very decorative foil wrapper around the actual bar itself.
The rear of the wrapper promises a minimum of 32% cocoa and 24% milk solids, so I was anticipating a good, creamy milk chocolate. I was not disappointed. Upon opening the wrapper, I was immediately impressed with the smell of the chocolate.
As you can see, it comes stamped ‘Caldey’ on each square, mimicking a lot of the Belgian bars I’m so fond of. The chocolate itself is slightly sweeter than my normal ‘tipple’ but it is indeed very creamy, melts beautifully and delivers a taste not entirely dissimilar to a Galaxy chocolate.
I don’t suppose the monks of Caldey Island make huge quantities of chocolate, and nor do I imagine that this is widely available (even in Wales) but I would recommend it to anyone who happens to spy a bar while visiting Wales.
