Sunday, August 30, 2020

My ideal box of chocolates, flavors

My favorite flavors:
- toffee, fudge, caramel, butterscotch
- coconut
- marzipan
- liquorice
- marmalade

My least favorite flavors:
- liqueur
- ginger
- saffron
- rose and other flowers (lilac, violet, orange blossom...)

I'm ok with fruit flavors. "strawberries and cream" sound interesting, but then the "cream" should not be fondant, that just looks like cream. Maybe white chocolate?

there should be lemon flavored praline
there should be cherry flavored praline that tastes good! :-D
there should be an apple marmalade filled one covered with dark chocolate (Finnish Jim copy)
there should be a banana liqueur truffle with a splash of Martinique rhum in very thin dark chocolate :-D (Finnish DaCapo copy - they say they took all banana liquour bonbons that were discarded as ugly or so, melted them into truffle and made DaCapo bars of them :-D)

 
I think Fry's 5 Centre chocolate bar looks wonderful, so I'd like that inside my chocolate pralines. Though the colors should be very different. I don't see any difference between raspberry and blackcurrant. Blackcurrant should be purple, and raspberry red.


I also love the Quality Street tin... even the fruit candies. They apparently make (or made) a "fruit creme carton", with just fruit cremes. There's orange and strawberry in the tin (apparently they had a "fruits of the forest" once, I assume with blueberries and raspberries), and in the carton they added lemon creme, which was kind of bland, they say...
I like the size of Quality Street bonbons. Big enough to bite the bottom off and lick the filling out :-D
That brown square is Café au Lait, and that green cube... Frankly, I don't have a clue :-D Maybe some sort of toffee.

This is what there was supposed to be in the first Quality Street tins:

"loaf" shaped:
Plain Quality Street Toffee
Harrogate Toffee (toffee flavored with lemon and ginger)
Vanilla Toffee
Chocolate Toffee Crispets
Valencia Cracknel (almonds in "cracknel" casing)

Square/oblong/brick shaped (sharp edges)
Almond Toffee
Cream Caramel
Café au Lait Carameline (caramel cup with coffee flavor)
Chocolate Butter Toffee
Jaffa Chocolate Toffee (not oranges, but sultanas mixed with toffee and covered in chocolate)

Coins:
Extra Butter Toffee (gold coins)
Almond Extra Butter Toffee (Gold coins with almond pushed in... mmm....)

Milk Chocolate Swirls (piped swirls)
Noisette Pâté (Triangel)
Chocolate Crème Toffee Brazils (the purple ones. Yes, they used to have brazil nut instead of hazelnuts.)
Toffee Cup (cup, obviously)
Chocolate Butter-Toffee Walnuts (round, like the fruit cremes)
"Golden Ingots"

 Here's an article about the discontinued flavors in Quality Street tins...
Gooseberry creams... mmm...
 - Apricot delight - chunk of apricot in chocolate (There is a confection of apricot jelly with pieces of hazelnuts stuck in... I'm sure I won't like it, but perhaps my hubby might.)

Vanilla Octagon
Gooseberry Cream
Fruits of the Forest Crème
Mint Fondant
Chocolate Strawberry Cream
Apricot Delight
Coffee Cream
Toffee Square
Chocolate Truffle
Montelimar Nougat
Hazelnut Cracknell
Peanut Cracknell
Chocolate Nut Toffee Cream
Malt Toffee
Milk Chocolate Round
Fig Fancy

The Purple One
Green Triangle
Caramel Swirl (used to be Toffee Cup)
Strawberry delight (used to be creme)
Orange creme
Milk Chocolate
Fudge
Toffee Finger (Golden Ingot)
Honeycomb Crunch
Toffee Penny
Coconut Eclair
Orange Chocolate Crunch
Chocolate Caramel Brownie
Lemon Zing
Crispy Truffle Bite

Hazelnut Éclair
Chocolate Nut Toffee Cream
Toffee Square (metallic pink wrapper, a small square of very hard toffee)
Chocolate Truffle (brown square chunk, a soft truffle filling covered in milk chocolate)
Montelimar Nougat
Coffee Cream (brown wrapper, same size and shape as the strawberry cream)
Mint Fondant (pale green wrapper, same as strawberry crème but with a mint crème filling)
Toffee Deluxe
Crispy Truffle Bite

I am not aware of Cadbury Roses, Heroes, or Celebrations, though they look a bit like Twist; miniatyre versions of candy bars. And that is actually a really good idea. Make a bonbon version of my favorite candy bars :-D

I think I need to make a copy of Toblerone, though, even though I don't like nougat. Someone I like, likes it :-D


Thornton's Chocolates:

"Hazelnut and crispy wafer combine in creamy white chocolate sprinkled with roasted almonds"
"Tangy orange flavoured truffle with pieces of crispy wafer, coated in milk then dark chocolate"
"Dark and milk chocolate ganache with a gooey chocolate caramel middle, wrapped in smooth milk chocolate"
"White chocolate and vanilla flavoured ganache, surrounded by double cream chocolate ganache, coated in dark chocolate"

strawberries with balsamic vinegar and black pepper

Perhaps rum raisin... I kind of liked that

hazelnut truffle and hazelnut nougat (japonais I think is dacquoise made with hazelnuts... why are things made with hazelnuts "Japanese"?)

Luftig nougat med mandelbiter (lys sjokolade)
Finknust krokan i lys trøffel (lys sjokolade)
Frisk appelsinkrem (mørk sjokolade)
Lett, luftig nougat (lys sjokolade)
Fyldig mokkakrem (mørk sjokolade)
Myk marsipan (lys sjokolade)
Krem med ekte rom (mørk sjokolade)
Røstede hasselnøtter i trøffel (lys sjokolade)
Myk karamell (lys sjokolade)
Myk mintkrem (mørk sjokolade)
Prima Mild flytende karamell (lys sjokolade)
Ananas
Appelsinkapse

normandy calvados sounds interesting
also caipirinha
Irish coffee
kir royal
almond layer nougat (mozart kugel in different format)
panna cotta and cherry might work as "good cherry"
sacher cake flavored - apricot and dark chocolate truffle filling, dark chocolate

Walnut Russe (walnuts in maple syrup)

Payne's Poppets:
Brazil nut
Coconut Whip
Pineapple
Nut Crunch
Treacle Caramel
Walnut
marzipan
Cherry
Nutty Caramel
Pineapple Mousse
Cherry Cream
Walnut Russe
Orange Cream
Pistachio Nougat
Caramel Cream
Strawberry Cream


My husband wants:
nuts (whole and chopped)
marzipan
nougat (the brown Danish stuff)

liqueurs (the Danish stuff :-D I think there's even some alcohol in Danish marzipan!)



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