Review: Fazermints (Fazer)

Chocolate mints from Finish Fazer must be some of the oldest still around in this category. At least I remember the elegant silver package from my childhood and if my memory serves me correctly it was considered a prestigious chocolate that my parents bought in the duty free shops to give away as presents.

Producing a chocolate with a filling of mint is probably rather challenging. The peppermint cream quite often becomes too dominating and the whole thing tastes like toothpaste in your mouth. On the other hand, the combination might perhaps work out reasonably well, if the mint flavour is not too dominating. So were these Fazermints up for the challenge?

Both the package and the wrappers of the individual mints are nice looking. Also, the individual pieces are fair looking in a cross section view, if a bit small. Appearance: 7, 5 out of 10.

Aroma wise there is a very strong scent of peppermint, though the aroma of sweet dark chocolate (47%) is clearly noticeable. Aroma: 7, 5 out of 10.

The crunch of the chocolate covering is fair, though the melt is somewhat lacking. Also, the mint cream is rather slow to melt in the mouth. The texture itself is nice and smooth. Texture: 7 out of 10.

The flavour of the mint cream is very overpowering and sweet, and becomes too much like toothpaste. The dark chocolate flavour is barely noticeable which is a drawback, not only considering that it makes up 53%, but also because it might have cut across the sweetness of the mint filling. Flavour: 6 out of 10.

I am not convinced that indeed chocolate and peppermint cream is such an obvious proposition as is for example chocolate and orange. I say this fully aware of the popularity of such chocolates as After Eight and Ritter Sport Peppermint, the latter being on the top 3 best sellers from the Ritter range in the UK.

I may be in the minority here and perhaps the combination might be executed better than these particular mints. I will review a few more mint chocolate and, as usual, report back.

Average: 7 out of 10.