bohme alcoholic chocolates
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.