Notes on chocolate: contrasting bars for when you can’t decide

Sometimes you really can have the best of both worlds

It is the end of May. I don’t know what I want, chocolate wise. Dark chocolate, milk chocolate, bits in my chocolate? Luckily, there is a bar from Lumi that satisfies an undecided palate: The Salted Pretzel (£6.75/100g). It has very generous chunks of salted pretzel (it’s all there in the name) trapped amid swirls of caramelised white chocolate and dark. Depending on what bit you get it could be salty and very sweet or salty and not so sweet.

Peta, who makes the bars, likens it to a digestive biscuit in taste and, although I don’t initially agree, I see what she means after I’ve tested vigorously. This bar has become a bestseller, but it was a bit too sweet for me, overall. However, it’s worth a try if you want something a little different and fun.

Continue reading… Sometimes you really can have the best of both worldsIt is the end of May. I don’t know what I want, chocolate wise. Dark chocolate, milk chocolate, bits in my chocolate? Luckily, there is a bar from Lumi that satisfies an undecided palate: The Salted Pretzel (£6.75/100g). It has very generous chunks of salted pretzel (it’s all there in the name) trapped amid swirls of caramelised white chocolate and dark. Depending on what bit you get it could be salty and very sweet or salty and not so sweet.Peta, who makes the bars, likens it to a digestive biscuit in taste and, although I don’t initially agree, I see what she means after I’ve tested vigorously. This bar has become a bestseller, but it was a bit too sweet for me, overall. However, it’s worth a try if you want something a little different and fun. Continue reading… Chocolate, Food, Life and style 

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