Monoprix Gourmet pépites de caramel

Les pépites de caramel taquinent le palais tandis que le chocolat au lait l'enrobe de sa douceur.

Translation: The nuggets of caramel tease the palate while coated with the softness of milk chocolate. You get the gist . . .

Yep - this is the first of five bars brought back to me from Paris for me to review. Oh it's hard people knowing that you write about chocolate!

The bar is kind of a Lindt presentation - it comes wrapped in foil within a box, and split into the same 10 segments. The bar consists of milk chocolate, with a liberal amount of crunchy caramel bits.

The chocolate is quite nice. It doesn't have the same smoothness and creaminess of Lindt, but it has a good chocolate hit (albeit with that slight burn you can sometimes get at the back of your throat) and contains a relatively decent 32% cocoa solids.

There are two ways of eating this really - the normal way would be to crunch straight into it I suppose, and eating it this way, it really becomes just crunchy chocolate as the caramel is a little overwhelmed by the relatively strong cocoa flavour.

However on my last square, I let all the chocolate melt away leaving me with copious amounts of caramel bits in my mouth. And much to my delight, the caramel is good - sweet, buttery and with a nice salty aftertaste as you crunch on the remnants.

Really a very nice bar - amongst my French stash, I have another one from Monoprix Gourmet, but I haven't decoded it yet to see what it is!


HOW NAUGHTY IS IT?
Calories: 526
Fat: 29.0g
( per 100g)

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