When I looked at this bar, my first thought was that it consisted of a slab of dark chocolate with a slice of Milky Way on top of it, but I was wrong. It is actually dark chocolate with rice crispies hidden within it and the topping is a chunk of chocolate chip cookie. This bar is a lot harder than the Caramellow, it was surprisingly tough on the teeth.
The chocolate is not very sweet, the cocoa content is 74% which explains this, but I was still expecting something sweeter. The biscuit and rice crispies add a crunch to the texture, but don’t make it any easier to eat as the chocolate is so hard. The biscuit and rice crispies also don’t add any sweetness to the flavour, which is what my taste buds were expecting.
The bar is dressed as a playful fun item, but the palate it would suit is more refined. If it wants to be fun, it needs some caramel to add softness and sweetness. If it wants to be a traditionalist’s bar, it needs to lose the texture of the rice crispies and biscuit. I think this bar is a little confused, and is the most disappointing of my Hotel Chocolat purchases so far. I do like dark chocolate, but I just couldn’t get on with this bar.
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