Color:	taffeta brown
Surface:	pimples, pock marks, & pus
Temper:	rippling sheen
Snap:	adhesion

a loaded complex / every angle set at a different scent... vaporized fruit cake streaming from a brandy still -> tobacco, leather 'n wood, the hallmarks of W African cocoa -> Bitto cheese stink -> beef jerky & epoxy (huh?)... the consequence of over a dozen ingredients

Texture:	tender crunch
Melt:	particle suspension

sugar-injected booze (cherry brandy leaking all over) -> heavy glucose -> marzipan sops it up some with the sweet meats of pistachio at the edges -> ventures into a cake dimension as the elements start to fuse & a layer of cream that does the the fondant-dango for the icing (thank you, Freddie Mercury & Queen) -> chocolate interlined with beautiful vanilla-wattle -> berry tart (think chocolate Linzer) -> everlasting brandy

First half just a segregated mess / mash wherein 2 + 2 ≠ 4 -- it equals a lot less than that. Then the elements mesh & meld & this composition multiplies... exponentially.

So many sugars, spices, nuts & seeds in a teutonic recipe ultimately rise up in slingshot-alignment when the sheer numbers of them could've just as easily fallen out & disintegrated into a catastrophe.

Most will react to the obvious alcohol but the highlight, among several, goes to wattleseed -- indigenous to Australia -- with its own inherent chocolate, coffee, hazelnut & vanilla tones that subtly compliments the combo even at less than 1% of the total weight.

Quite the uniquity.

INGREDIENTS: sugar, cocoa mass, cocoa butter, almonds, whole milk powder, pistachios, sorbitol, glucose syrup, cherry brandy, cream, butter, invert sugar, wattle seed, vanilla flavoring, lecithin, Bourbon vanilla

Reviewed June 5, 2012