Hotel Chocolat’s Our Rocky Road
A milk chocolate Rocky Road bar with 40% cocoa, in a lovely little purple box. There’s a whole lot of description on the front which you can’t see, but basically it’s 100g of milk chocolate with chocolate chip cookie and puffed rice added for texture, and they call it one of their most popular creations. Yum.
More blurb on the back. Supposedly it’s perfect with a cup of coffee, but I had lemonade to accompany this. With their house 40% milk chocolate. They also mention there being butter almond and chocolate chip cookie pieces, and chunks of white chocolate. Sounds freaking delicious, and sickly. I can’t wait!
So I finally open the box up, and in it is a little black wrapper. Inside that is…this…BEAST! What a freaking monster. This is the size and shape of all their 100g bars, but on the underside is the giant cookie piece where you can see chocolate chips inside it, a massive amount of puffed rice and huge chunks of white chocolate. It looks as good as it sounds.
The taste is actually…a little bit…eh. Like yesterday, because of the way the bar is, there’s so much thick milk chocolate that it dominates the bar. The cookie and puffed rice are tasteless, they mention it’s just for texture but frankly it’s just not worth it. The white chocolate is also tastless, it adds a slight bit of sweetness to the bar but there’s no taste. The whole thing lacks taste! It’s just milk chocolate and then there’s a bit of an aftertaste from the puffed rice.
Ugh, what a disappointment. These slabs really need to be worked on, I’m sensing a pattern here, and I have two more to go.
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September 12th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
I don’t think the cookie piece could actually have been more of a let down! it looks and sounds amazing…just as you mention devoid of flavour!