Casali Rum Kokos
300g of original rum-kokos here from Casali of Austria. These are rum-coconut dragees with a milk chocolate coating (58%) and alcoholic filling (5%).
Basically they’re small round milk chocolate balls with a crispy, coconut filling and a little bit of rum inside, kinda like a chocolate liquor. These were sent to me along with a whole bunch of other stuff from Austria from Dietmar who runs http://austrianshop.com and runs his own chocolate review site here.
The tub here houses 300g of them, and the lid sort of peels off but can be placed back on easily enough. One thing I didn’t know was that the rum inside would be in liquid form, so I bit my first one in half, only to have rum spill down my hand and shirt, which made me smell like an alcoholic.
I then decided to eat them by placing the entire things into my mouth and biting into them, this causes the rum to spill out right onto your tongue. Now I’m not much of a drinker and for me this was a relatively painful process. The rum is quite strong and having it hit my tongue wasn’t particularly pleasant. The coconut isn’t strong enough either, I could hardly taste it in most cases, mainly because the rum was so strong. The chocolate itself wasn’t particularly bad or great, and that’s really about it for these. Rummies can rejoice, but if you don’t like alcohol then you won’t enjoy these.
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November 7th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Austria – an untapped resource! I can’t waite to see the rest of the stuff your gonna review, I really don’t know anything about the chocolate they have for offer there!!
Jim
November 8th, 2008 at 12:24 am
Jim – Plenty of reviews coming up there, most of their stuff seems to be marzipan based. Germany and Austria seem to be big on it.
November 10th, 2008 at 7:11 am
Hello!
Sad that you did not enjoy Casali Rum Kokos. Those chocolates are one of the most traditional and popular candy creations in Austria.
I hope you enjoy the other stuff!
March 22nd, 2009 at 3:28 pm
This is one of the best candies I ever tasted. I don’t think they are that strong in rum, actually the rum is what make them almost addictive, I can eat the whole box at once. I should mention that I’m not a heavy drinker and I can’t even drink the rum itself. I’m from Romania and I eat those every week. Love them.
April 5th, 2009 at 9:21 am
I love these, though I wouldn’t miss it if they got rid of the coconut. They also have them in Pina Colada (white chocolate) and Orange Vodka or something like that. The Pina Colada ones I didn’t like.
November 19th, 2009 at 3:53 am
These chocolates are DIVINE! I bought a little bag in Vienna and now I am searching aqll over the internet to see where i can buy them here in USA.
Casali people PLEASE start exporting your chocolates to a bunch of distribuitor in USA…PLEASE!