vobro choco party best wishes
Not long ago, I happened to come across one of the prettiest boxes of chocolates I have ever seen. They were called Vobro Choco Party Best Wishes. Vobro is a Polish confectionery producer from Brodnica.
They have three designs for the Vobro Choco Party Best Wishes box and it took me a while to decide which I liked best. I eventually picked the one with the tulip. I also saw their Cherry Roses boxes, but the Vobro Choco Party Best Wishes promised Cointreau chocolates so, given that I have a weak spot for orange in chocolate, it was easy for me to decide which one I wanted to try first.
In addition to the Cointreau chocolates, the box also promised Pistachio and Caramel chocolates. I don't like pistachios, but I love Cointreau and I find that caramel chocolates can be very nice sometimes. Opening the box, I had a little surprise, a nice little surprise: they managed to put nine chocolates inside that box. Pretty ingenious... There were three plastic bags, each one containing a Cointreau, a Pistachio and a Caramel piece. The chocolates all looked very pretty in their individual wrappers - orange for the Cointreau, green for the Pistachio and brown for the Caramel.
After unwrapping one of each, things didn't look so nice anymore. The Pistachio one looked perfect, just like the image on the box, with the Vobro logo on top, but the other two were covered in bloom. Just as it was suggested on the box, the Pistachio and the Caramel were covered in milk chocolate, while the Cointreau was covered in dark chocolate. I started sniffing them. Unfortunately, the smell wasn't very promising, either. They smelled like cheap crappy chocolate.
I don't like pistachio, so daddy got those. He said he liked the chocolates, though he always says that just to be nice (I think I could give him sand and he'd still say the same thing). The Caramel one had a very sweet cream and I didn't like it's texture. The Cointreau chocolate also had a very sweet orange filling with an almost fondant-like texture. The only thing I enjoyed about it was that I could actually feel the orange taste in the dark chocolate as well, not just in the filling.
Overall, great looking chocolates that tasted awful.
Ingredients:
» Pistachio: milk chocolate 52% (sugar, cocoa fat, cocoa mass, whole milk powder, emulsifier: soy lecithin, flavour, emulsifier: E476), glucose syrup, sugar, hydrogenated vegetable fat, skimmed milk powder, alcohol 2.8%, flavours, emulsifiers: soy lecithine & E471 & E475, enzyme: E1103, colour: E141(i); milk chocolate: cocoa mass min. 37.9%; may contain traces of peanut and hazelnut.
» Caramel: milk chocolate 52% (sugar, cocoa fat, cocoa mass, whole milk powder, emulsifier: soy lecithin, flavour, emulsifier: E476), glucose syrup, sugar, hydrogenated vegetable fat, skimmed milk powder, alcohol 2.8%, flavours, emulsifiers: soy lecithine & E471 & E475, enzyme: E1103; milk chocolate: cocoa mass min. 37.9%; may contain traces of peanut and hazelnut.
» Cointreau: chocolate 52% (sugar, cocoa mass, cocoa fat, milk fat, emulsifiers: soy lecithin & E476 & E492, flavour), glucose syrup, sugar, hydrogenated vegetable fat, skimmed milk powder, alcohol 3%, flavours, emulsifiers: soy lecithine & E471 & E475, enzyme: E1103, colours: E120 & E160a(ii); chocolate: cocoa mass min. 49.7%; may contain traces of peanut and hazelnut.
Storage: keep in a dry and cool place.
Nutritional info per 100g of product: energy 456kcal, protein 3g, fat 23.7g, carbohydrates 57.8g.
Price: 8 lei (117g box); that's the equivalent of €1.86/ ₤1.65/ $2.58.
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