Milk Chocolate 45%
by Malmö Chokladfabrik
Impact
As Christina Valhouli writes on the Motherlode, she breast-fed her first child exclusively for over half a year &… couldn’t wait to be done with it. After 7 months of nighttime feeds, leaky breasts & the appearance of small, razor-sharp teeth, Christina felt finished. She tried everything to get him to take a bottle, & he stubbornly refused. He was happy to go on a hunger strike until a breast was procured. Christina even resorted to walking around the house sucking on a bottle happily — and noisily — in front of him to drop the message.
Of course, she might’ve weaned him with some Milk Chocolate. It ain’t quite puree but what else is?
When asked, a tennis acquaintance from Sweden (they all play tennis there, no?; Borg; Wilander; Edberg; Soderling) now living in the USA says this Malmö’s was the mother’s milk of his infancy.
Of course, she might’ve weaned him with some Milk Chocolate. It ain’t quite puree but what else is?
When asked, a tennis acquaintance from Sweden (they all play tennis there, no?; Borg; Wilander; Edberg; Soderling) now living in the USA says this Malmö’s was the mother’s milk of his infancy.
Appearance 2.9 / 5
| Color: | tallow brown |
| Surface: | baby's bottom -- lumpen & uneven |
| Temper: | colic |
| Snap: | crispy fried-batter |
Aroma 7 / 10
quite devoid at first whiff, then pops cream, butter + biscuit crumbs wafting over from nearby Nordic neighbor as in a plain Danish pastry
grows out sticky infants' formula caramel
grows out sticky infants' formula caramel
Mouthfeel 9.1 / 15
| Texture: | Wax Factor™ |
| Melt: | oleaginous, almost curdled AMF (Anhydrous Milk Fat) |
Flavor 38.4 / 50
light allspice 'n cinnamon & buttered breadcrumbs -> graham crackers -> gentle honey caramel as the butter rolls up thick, heavy & waxen -> spices still cut thru though -> slides away on a brief cocoa slick back
Quality 12.2 / 20
Like some 10-pound newborn shot thru the birth canal, this too looks big but 45% cacáo-content should hardly fool anyone... only confuse some.
A butterball of a bar, most of the cacáo-content resides in cocoa butter rather than cocoa mass. As such it joins other Milk Chocolate "heavyweights" (Dark-Milk or other wise) that turn out to be pap in a pussy cat's bowl (re: Valrhona's Jivara; Choklat's 48% Brazil Milk; Hachez Maracaibo; et. al.). Both the quality of the butter hardness & the rate of cooling to which this bar was subjected throw the Texture off dismally.
Quite the persistent & durable cocoa however. Most other seed types would've buckled & perished under the onslaught of so much sugar & fat. And, remarkably, all of it without added vanilla here.
The formula? Seems that Malmö watered down its spice-laden Master Blend, including a helping of Ecuador, with milk & butter, then mimicked the mouthfeel in its Peru 85%.
Just insert as any pacifier for peace & quiet & relief from someone else's teeth marks or your own overbite.
INGREDIENTS: sugar, cocoa butter, milk powder, cocoa mass
Reviewed October 8, 2013
A butterball of a bar, most of the cacáo-content resides in cocoa butter rather than cocoa mass. As such it joins other Milk Chocolate "heavyweights" (Dark-Milk or other wise) that turn out to be pap in a pussy cat's bowl (re: Valrhona's Jivara; Choklat's 48% Brazil Milk; Hachez Maracaibo; et. al.). Both the quality of the butter hardness & the rate of cooling to which this bar was subjected throw the Texture off dismally.
Quite the persistent & durable cocoa however. Most other seed types would've buckled & perished under the onslaught of so much sugar & fat. And, remarkably, all of it without added vanilla here.
The formula? Seems that Malmö watered down its spice-laden Master Blend, including a helping of Ecuador, with milk & butter, then mimicked the mouthfeel in its Peru 85%.
Just insert as any pacifier for peace & quiet & relief from someone else's teeth marks or your own overbite.
INGREDIENTS: sugar, cocoa butter, milk powder, cocoa mass
Reviewed October 8, 2013