After the success of the white chocolate Chocri bar, I go into this one with higher expectations than the previous one, and I decided to experiment a little bit too.

I’ve always been a little disappointed with bars which call themselves spicy, as I’m a man who can handle a bit of spice and I always find them to be more a poke in the shoulder than a kick in the balls. So I thought I would make a bar with lots of nuts and plenty of spice.

What I ended up with is a milk chocolate bar with wasabi peanuts, organic salt pretzels, jalapneos, pecans and coconut shavings. It’s a bit of a wild mix but I was going for a salty, nutty, spicy bar with the coconut to just loosen it a bit, and I think I created something great (I’m modest too).

First of all, it’s spicy. Very spicy. The jalapenos look really good, and the wasabi peanuts are huge! When you get a peanut or two and a jalapeno you will feel it, this bar kicked my ass with the spice. I added pecans because I feel they’re very under-represented when it comes to chocolate bars, and they’re one of my favourite nuts. Sadly they didn’t add as much as I hoped they would, and the same goes for the pretzels. I was hoping they’d give the bar a salty kick, somewhat akin to the Vosges bar I had over two years ago, but it didn’t really happen.

What did impress me though was the coconut shavings. They have a lot of flavour and compliment a bar like this very well. I’d be careful with the spices though, as they are no joke. Throughout the entire bar my mouth was on fire and it got into my nose at one point, which is the effect wasabi usually has. Seriously hot stuff.

The quality of the chocolate is very good though, and so are the ingredients. Chocri have impressed me again. Like the cranberries of the white chocolate bar, I feel the pecans can add something to a different bar, just not this one. Overall though, this was great, spicy as hell and very tasty to boot.