the sweet scrapbook

At the beginning of last month I bought quite a few Halloren products. When I visited their website to learn a little more about them, I found that they also make Bohme and Laroshell. I discovered Laroshell's alcohol-filled chocolates at the beginning of 2003 and I thought they were quite nice. It didn't take me long before I went through all Laroshell products that were available here. And then I moved on, there were other things to try. But recently I saw something that wasn't available here before - though it was listed (unfortunately, without a picture, so I didn't make the connection at first) on halloren.de among the Laroshell products. It was the Laroshell Obstbrande assortment box.

The box contains fruit brandy filled chocolates with sugar crust and hazelnuts. There are 32 chocolates in the 400g box. They are made with four types of fruit brandy fillings and there are three types of chocolate used: dark chocolate, milk chocolate and higher cocoa content milk chocolate. They don't say what type of chocolate they use for each filling... so the associations I've made come strictly from the way I've felt them... and I couldn't feel much (I'll explain that a little later). It was obvious that the Williams Pear Brandy was in regular milk chocolate and I'm pretty sure that the Black Forest Cherry Brandy was in dark chocolate. I think that the Black Forest Plum Brandy was in higher cocoa content milk chocolate, but I'm highly unsure about the Raspberry Brandy. Was this higher cocoa content milk chocolate as well?

At the beginning of last month I bought quite a few Halloren products. When I visited their website to learn a little more about them, I found that they also make Bohme and Laroshell. I discovered Laroshell's alcohol-filled chocolates at the beginning of 2003 and I thought they were quite nice. It didn't take me long before I went through all Laroshell products that were available here. And then I moved on, there were other things to try. But recently I saw something that wasn't available here before - though it was listed (unfortunately, without a picture, so I didn't make the connection at first) on halloren.de among the Laroshell products. It was the Laroshell Obstbrande assortment box.

The box contains fruit brandy filled chocolates with sugar crust and hazelnuts. There are 32 chocolates in the 400g box. They are made with four types of fruit brandy fillings and there are three types of chocolate used: dark chocolate, milk chocolate and higher cocoa content milk chocolate. They don't say what type of chocolate they use for each filling... so the associations I've made come strictly from the way I've felt them... and I couldn't feel much (I'll explain that a little later). It was obvious that the Williams Pear Brandy was in regular milk chocolate and I'm pretty sure that the Black Forest Cherry Brandy was in dark chocolate. I think that the Black Forest Plum Brandy was in higher cocoa content milk chocolate, but I'm highly unsure about the Raspberry Brandy. Was this higher cocoa content milk chocolate as well?

More than a month ago, I went a little Halloren-crazy and I bought five of their chocolate boxes: two Halloren Pralines de Maitre Paul ones and three Halloren Kugeln ones. Being the curious creature that I am, I started looking around their website (halloren.de). That way, I learned that Halloren also make Bohme. We don't get many sweets with the Halloren label here. But we get a lot of Bohme! The only things we don't get out of the range presented on halloren.de are the chocolate-coated jellies, the Silver Block and the Couverture chocolate. We get the rest - the plain jellies (tried them, lovely!), the mint chocolates (I don't like mint, so I don't touch stuff like that), the fruit-filled Bohme chocolate bars (tried them, not my thing), the Rum Balls (tried them, they'd be a lot better without the chocolate chips) and... the alcoholic chocolates! Brandy Beans, Cherry & Brandy, Cream & Irish Whishy... these three were actually the first Bohme products I have ever tried. But that was a long, long time ago (hmmm, seven years ago?) and I didn't remember anything about how they tasted... I only remembered trying them. That usually indicates they weren't anything extreme - not brilliant, but not unpleasant either. My first encounter with Lindt also happened seven years ago and I still cannot forget those moments of cinnamon-flavoured milk chocolate heaven that came out of a red wrapper with golden decorations. Yes, I still have the wrapper (outside, inside). And some of the other lovely Lindt wrappers.

Well, since they weren't bad and they were alcoholic chocolates, I thought they would deserve an entry in the scrapbook. So I grabbed the Cherry & Brandy and the Cream & Irish Whisky on the first occasion. I left the Brandy Beans for another occasion as I didn't even know how I woud manage to get the first two inside the really small bag (the black one in this picture) I had that day. It was one of those cold October days when my fingers wanted to hide inside my warm pockets, not to freeze carrying boxes or shopping bags.

More than a month ago, I went a little Halloren-crazy and I bought five of their chocolate boxes: two Halloren Pralines de Maitre Paul ones and three Halloren Kugeln ones. Being the curious creature that I am, I started looking around their website (halloren.de). That way, I learned that Halloren also make Bohme. We don't get many sweets with the Halloren label here. But we get a lot of Bohme! The only things we don't get out of the range presented on halloren.de are the chocolate-coated jellies, the Silver Block and the Couverture chocolate. We get the rest - the plain jellies (tried them, lovely!), the mint chocolates (I don't like mint, so I don't touch stuff like that), the fruit-filled Bohme chocolate bars (tried them, not my thing), the Rum Balls (tried them, they'd be a lot better without the chocolate chips) and... the alcoholic chocolates! Brandy Beans, Cherry & Brandy, Cream & Irish Whishy... these three were actually the first Bohme products I have ever tried. But that was a long, long time ago (hmmm, seven years ago?) and I didn't remember anything about how they tasted... I only remembered trying them. That usually indicates they weren't anything extreme - not brilliant, but not unpleasant either. My first encounter with Lindt also happened seven years ago and I still cannot forget those moments of cinnamon-flavoured milk chocolate heaven that came out of a red wrapper with golden decorations. Yes, I still have the wrapper (outside, inside). And some of the other lovely Lindt wrappers.

Well, since they weren't bad and they were alcoholic chocolates, I thought they would deserve an entry in the scrapbook. So I grabbed the Cherry & Brandy and the Cream & Irish Whisky on the first occasion. I left the Brandy Beans for another occasion as I didn't even know how I woud manage to get the first two inside the really small bag (the black one in this picture) I had that day. It was one of those cold October days when my fingers wanted to hide inside my warm pockets, not to freeze carrying boxes or shopping bags.