I recently had an email from the owner of Oxford Ethical, an online store based in Oxford who sell tea, coffee and of course, lovely chocolate. He sent me 4 bars which he personally recommended, and I had to go for coconut first. This is 38% cocoa solids milk chocolate, made up of 100% organic ingredients.

The bar also sports the fairtrade logo, so it puts Blakes in the same sort of category as Divine and Green and Black’s. The bar itself was made in Switzerland and they themselves are an Irish company, which is why I personally hadn’t heard of them before and had never seen any of their bars around either.

It looks nice, with a fairly plain wrapper. It’s made of a thick paper, and whilst you’d expect foil within, it’s instead a strange plastic wrapper, and inside that is the bar. It’s very, very soft at room temperature, to the point where the bar is sort of pulled apart rather than snapped.

There’s a large amount of coconut filling, but there’s no grain to the coconut at all, it’s more of a paste than anything else, despite the bar having 18% coconut flakes on the ingredients. This didn’t seem to affect the pretty great taste of the bar, it wasn’t overly sweet and it had a lovely authentic taste. Coconut fans looking for something nicer than a regular Bounty should look no further.