We don’t often review supermarket bakery stuff, but as I’m currently sitting here with a mouthful of shortbread and a nice cup of tea, I thought I may as well write about it.
These four large chocolate chip shortbread cookies set me back £1.39, which I thought was a little expensive when I bought them. Having actually eaten one (..and a bit..) (mmm… and a bit more…), I’ve decided they’re worth the price.
It’s quite tough to get a feel for the quality of chocolate in these, despite looking like they’re loaded with choc chips, they’re not particularly chocolatey in taste. The triple choc is obviously white, milk and dark, but it’s impossible to pick out the individual flavours.
But the shortbread is simply delicious. It’s soft and smooth and melts away in your mouth from the moment you bite into it. It’s not too sweet, but as with any shortbread, it’s quite filling and can leave your mouth a little dry – so you do need that nice cup of tea to go with it.
I’m not sure I’d go out of my way to pick these up, but if you’re passing the bakery section in Tesco, they’re definitely worth a try.
I seem to find myself returning to the world of Côte d’Or with frightening regularity. They make some damned fine products, and I think I’ve developed a sixth sense for their packaging.
Anyway, a few months back when I was in Brussels, I spied this bar sitting among a selection of (already sampled) Côte d’Or products. It was pretty obvious that this was a product that is (as yet, fingers crossed) unavailable in the UK. The lack of English on the box, coupled with my extensive knowledge of the existing range was enough to bring on the New Chocolate Fever.
Now pecans just happen to be my second favourite nuts ever (after macadamias, of which more another time) so it didn’t take long before I was walking out of the shop with this little prize.
Although the majority of my reviews still centre around the Dark Stuff, I’m not averse to good quality milk chocolate, and I was pretty confident that this one would deliver. And I was right. It’s creamy, soft, milky and delicious, and I was both surprised and delighted to find that the pecans had been lightly caramelised prior to their inclusion in the bar, giving them a delightfully crispy texture
Of course, there is a generous nut-to-choc ratio (the trend seems to be to cram as many nuts/cherries/raisins into a bar as possible) and so you get a lovely mouthful of nutty, choccy crispiness. The chocolate works wonderfully with the pecans (assuming you like pecans, of course) and being Continental I was spared the ridiculous ‘product may contain nuts’ warning.
Lovely stuff – please release it into the UK, Mr. d’Or.
I just had to share this TV ad… someone in Cadbury’s marketing department has clearly been putting hallucinogenic drugs in the chocolate…
There’s a higher quality version on the Cabdury website – (assuming you can stand to listen to Phil Collins in higher quality).
Ok, well this is a little unusual. These Israeli chocolates were sent to us by our newest Sponsor, OhNuts.com.
OhNuts are US based, so these choccies have pretty much traveled around the world to end up in my stomach. Sometimes I’m amazed how much trouble chocolate takes to get to my stomach. It must really like me.
I’d never heard of ‘Klik’ before, so I presume this is an Israel-only brand, although they are apparently made by Unilever Bestfoods (best known for Hellman’s Mayonnaise it seems!).
Luckily, these don’t taste of Mayonnaise at all. They are little “pillows” of wafer coated in milk chocolate. They also apparently have a nougat filling, but there’s not very much of it and the pillows are pretty much hollow.
The chocolate is pretty good quality (the bag lists it as minimum 36% cocoa solids), and the wafer is nice and crispy, but that’s pretty much all there is to these.
On the face of it, they’re a bit dull. But once I’d opened the bag, I found myself nibbling at them all day and I’ve started to really quite like them. This little 75g bag of chocs kept me going all day. They’re nothing spectacular, but they are really quite more-ish, and somehow feel better quality than, say, Mars Planets or Maltesers.
I’m going to keep this review quite short as I have 3 more products from the Klik range to review, and I’m getting hungry again…
