Review: Daim

Daim is a very popular chocolaty bar throughout Scandinavia. Combining crunchy caramel and almonds (croquante) covered with milk chocolate, it has broad appeal. For some reason, however, it seems slightly less popular with non Scandinavian reviewers such as Jim’s chocolate mission and chocablog-

While there are many bars combining caramel and milk chocolate, this is a somewhat different proposition for several reasons. First, it is not a soft, chewy bar but a hard crunchy, I would say brittle, offering. Second, it is quite a thin bar, probably to support its hardness.

The wrapper is a little too bombastic to my taste to be really attractive. The bar itself is OK, even if not screaming EAT ME! Appearance: 6, 5 out of 10.

There are certainly nice aromas of caramel and milk chocolate in this bar. However, these are marred by some artificial aroma agent, I think. At any rate there is something smelling artificial ruining the aroma part. Aroma: 6, 5 out of 10.

The caramel is quite hard and thus provide good, if somewhat brittle crunch shattering the croquante. The mouth feel and melt is less than perfect as it sticks to teeth. Texture: 6 out of 10.

This is a very sweet bar and has a slightly burned caramel flavour. The milk chocolate does not provide much in terms of flavour, but rather brining sweetness to the party. Also, It may have another function namely to check the “burnt” flavour. Flavour: 6, 5 out of 10.