On a mini trip this week I didn’t bring any chocolate and soon regretted it because there was no (relatively good) chocolate to be had. So I went to the nearest supermarket, which happened to be Waitrose (don’t @ me) and bought some bars from its filled-chocolate range. I’d long meant to try these and they were on offer (£1.55 instead of £1.95/90g) so there was no excuse.
There are three bars in the range: 53% orange truffle, 53% salted caramel and 31% hazelnut praline. I chose the orange and the hazelnut ones. The former was really excellent, just the right amount of everything, very moreish, well balanced with zesty Valencia oil flavouring the truffle inside: in short, a birruva find. I didn’t buy the salted caramel because salted caramel on anything these days is an instant turn off, but if it’s anything like the orange one in terms of quality, then I regret this. The hazelnut praline was a disappointment: no discernible nut taste and so sweet I could have and should have got a Snickers if that’s the level of sugar spike we’re going for.
While there, someone told me about ‘top-shelf things that are dipped in chocolate’. Anything top-shelf piques my interest, and what they meant was Forest Feast chocolate-dipped things – mango, sour cherries, figs, brazils and almonds (from £3.45/120g
). I eschewed the nuts because it would have got ugly (we all know how much I love nuts). But if the mango and sour cherries are anything to go by, this is a very tasty little range if you fancy a grab bag to dip into when watching a film.
