Thorntons recently (as in, just before Christmas) released a whole bunch of little chocolate squares that come in cardboard boxes. Some of them are more interesting than others and this is one of them. Thorntons are most famous for their chocolate, but other than that they specialise in toffee, and so a 40% Mexican cocoa chocolate bar with their own ‘special’ toffee definitely interested me.

The box is a nice orange colour, with ‘toffee’ written on in large letters. The box is very minimalist, with there hardly being anything on the front but a lot of information on the back. Supposedly Mexican cocoa beans produce a creamy milk chocolate with a natural toffee flavour, and so they teamed it with their own special toffee and here we are.

The bar comes in a plastic wrapper with ‘unwrap me’ and ‘love me’ written on. Aww how sweet. No added vegetable fats either, just 100% cocoa butter, woohoo! Let’s open this up then.

The bar smells great. Really great. Very sweet and delicious smelling toffee, mixed well with quite decent chocolate. The bar itself is obviously square shaped, and is quite thick, weighing in at 90g. The chocolate itself contains little pieces of toffee, 7% in fact, and for the most part the bar actually smells better than it tastes.

So how does that work? Well some pieces don’t taste very toffee-y, whereas some do. Some will taste quite plain where the toffee hasn’t quite penetrated and those parts are nice, but not what I bought the bar for. The parts that do have a lot of toffee in are real good. Really really good. I’m not the biggest toffee fan but Thorntons toffee is definitely quite special, and it mixes well with their chocolate. My only wish is that it mixed just a little bit better, but the few chunks that got it right, got it so so right.