Review: Toblerone Milk (Kraft)

Christmas and New Year is a very busy season both professionally and at home. And while I eat a lot of chocolate I do not have much time on my hands for writing reviews and I expect this one to be the last this year. Next year will hopefully feature many more chocolate reviews.

This original or “plain” Toblerone Milk is described as “Swiss milk chocolate with honey and almond nougat (10%)”. Cocoa contents is given as min. 28% with 3% honey and 1, 8% almonds.

Aesthetically the triangular shaped box, with embossed letters, looks OK, though it is nothing spectacular. Also, the box appearance does not give a good idea of what kind of chocolate this is, but here Toblerone can probably rely on an established tradition which customers are easily able to identify. The chocolate itself looks OK and when one snaps of a triangular piece bits of almonds are visible. Appearance: 7 out of 10.

Snapping of a triangular piece one is met with a nice aroma of milk chocolate and nuts. Butter/dairy is, unfortunately, quite dominant leaving too little room for the chocolate to really shine. Aroma: 7 out of 10.

The chocolate has a texture which is somewhat in between: when breaking of a piece the snap is fair for a milk chocolate, but in the mouth the chocolate is neither hard (as a dark chocolate) nor as soft as a traditional milk chocolate. There is some crispness from almond pieces, which unfortunately are so finely ground that they do provide too little in terms of crunchy contrast. The visible almond bits and the crunch make me think that we are talking about “French nougat”, which is made with sugar, egg white and almonds which is hard and brittle and not the soft melting nougat made with hazelnuts. I think this should have been stated more clearly especially for the Danish market where nougat is usually thought to be of the later variety unless qualified. At any rate I think the nougat is too finely chopped to add substantial contrast. Also it is very sticky.

Texture: 6, 5 out of 10.

The flavour is of sweet dairy chocolate of mediocre quality and very buttery. One can taste the almonds, but there is too little contrast and complexity for this one to be too interesting. It may nevertheless hit the spot for those looking for a quick chocolate fix. Flavour: 6, 5 out of 10.

Average: 6, 75 out of 10.