Gerry The Gingerbread Bar (Paul A Young) By @Cinabar

Paul A Young is a famous chocolatier, he has a couple of shops in London and sells online too. I saw him on Saturday morning TV the other week talking about the art of hot chocolate and how the best hot chocolate is made with hot water. A controversial statement and one that was a trigger into how this blog was formed. Also known as how to find the fellow foodie at work. Anyway I went online to buy his hot chocolate and then I browsed his other goodies and inevitably things spiralled and now I have several of his products to try too. Oops.

So we have here the Gerry The Gingerbread Bar, a part milk and part dark chocolate bar flavoured with gingerbread. First can I say how absolutely gorgeous the bar looks, the gingerbread men on the chocolate are so pretty I wish my photograph could do them justice.

I broke a corner off and it came away with a nice snap. The chocolate is firm, and the flavour from the cocoa divine, the gingerbread taste adds warmth throughout and there is plenty of it, and it is perfectly balanced with the chocolate. In amongst the spice it feels like there is a touch of syrupy sweetness and the texture is lovely with crumbs of crunchy biscuit. This Gerry The Gingerbread Bar is a delight to eat.

I will be following up with a review of the hot chocolate too, and finding out if you can really make a good cup with hot water. I might not be convinced as yet but I’m still looking forward to finding out because if this bar is anything to go by the man is good, seriously good.