Fruition – Hazelnut Crunch Milk Chocolate

Description

Oof, what a dangerously delicious chocolate bar.

From the American makers at Fruition Chocolate, masters of dark milk chocolate. Always silky, creamy, beautifully textured, and delicious — in our opinion, anyway.

Here they’ve made something truly worth savoring: a wonderfully creamy milk chocolate bar (41% cacao) with small crunchy pieces of hazelnut. A hint of real vanilla, and an even smaller hint of salt, make it complete.

As one reviewer on Fruition’s site begins: “For real, quite possibly the best chocolate experience I have ever had.”

Naturally — especially if you enjoy a nicely sweet chocolate bar that isn’t too sweet. That may sound a little disrespectful, but we don’t mean it that way at all. It’s made with good ingredients, fine cacao from the Dominican Republic, rich milk powder, and good hazelnuts and vanilla. But yes, a bar that you can eat so quickly really is more of a treat bar. And there’s nothing wrong with that. You just probably shouldn’t buy one every week. Or… just do a bit more exercise. Cycling or running is already highly recommended, anyway.

Well, we didn’t eat our own bar in one evening — it took two.

There’s some salt in it, but in our view it’s subtle enough to act as a real accent, bringing the flavors forward rather than leaving you with a strong salty aftertaste.

And the hazelnuts come through nicely too. They also add something to the texture: it’s not a bar with a hard snap, but beautifully soft like many gianduja chocolates, only with the crunch of hazelnut pieces mixed in, which makes it extra fun thanks to the contrast.

Enough said — a beautiful bar for hazelnut lovers, or simply a lovely sweet treat that isn’t too sweet.

Ingredients: sugar, cocoa butter, cocoa beans, whole milk powder, hazelnuts, vanilla, salt, sunflower lecithin.

Net weight: 60 grams. Allergy note from the maker: contains nuts and milk. May contain traces of peanut, soy, egg, and sesame.