Cafe-Tasse Noir Amandes
Cafe-Tasse Noir Amandes is a Belgian dark chocolate bar with Almonds -- the almonds appear to be chopped or crushed, rather than whole. I really enjoyed this bar! I'm a fan of Belgian chocolate and while I do get excited by some of the fancy new combinations with wild spices or some of the uniquely flavored single origin chocolates that are available today, there are times when I want a comfortable bar. This is it. The chocolate was neither sweet nor bitter -- a nice dark bar that you could really sit down and enjoy. When I saw that the almonds weren't whole, I thought I would be disappointed, but they were really well suited to the texture of the chocolate and in the end I didn't miss the crunch I was originally hoping for.
One nice thing about the Cafe-Tasse bars -- if you get the big flat one like I got, is that they are not broken off into squares, but rather into long skinny bars -- perfect for dipping into coffee! Ah -- hence the name, I suppose. At any rate, this chocolate is even better warm & melty.
Yesterday Pete, Maddie & I went on a little shopping trip and I'm happy to say that I am all stocked up on chocolate for a while:
Actually two things pictured are biscuits -- so we can't count those, can we? And the Hello Kitty thing is Maddie's (it's one of those Yan Yan things where you dip the biscuit in chocolate -- like diy pocky). Oh and the CurlyWurly was Pete and Maddie's -- they ate it last night and it's an old fashioned Marathon Bar, repackaged! Remember those? The chocolate covered caramel braid? So anyway, that's only seven candy bars for me :) I'll give you a full report as I work my way through them. Maddie promised to help me out!
Your reference to the Marathon Bar brought back pleasant memories of hopping on my bike on allowance day to head to the corner store for that particular treat. And what is a Marathon if not a cable??? The perfect knitters candy!
Posted by: Sheepish Annie | Monday, August 07, 2006 at 09:27 AM
Don't know how long Curly Wuerlies have been made,but they were a favourite of my brother and I in the late 1960s and early 1970s. A British sweet ! [candy,to translate !]
Posted by: Emma | Monday, August 07, 2006 at 11:07 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curlywurly_Squirlies
There you go ! Can't have eaten it before 1971,but I knew it wasn't a relacement for an American bar !!!
I'll calm down now ! And yes,they used to be bigger. ;-]
Posted by: Emma | Monday, August 07, 2006 at 11:20 AM
Ahh, World Market! We stopped there yesterday for a refill on the Arnott's biscuits. It is about bloody time TimTams were made available in the US.
Posted by: Spring | Monday, August 07, 2006 at 11:38 AM
Tim Tams may, in theory, be a biscuit (cookie), but they're more chocolatey than some chocolate bars. Enjoy!
Posted by: JulieB | Monday, August 07, 2006 at 03:26 PM
omg! what are you trying to do to me!?!
where can i get one of these bars? because, you know, i'm allowed minimal amts of chocolate, and, with the addition of nuts, it makes it even better for me to have - true, ask Dr. Agatston....
seriously, where?
Posted by: rebecca | Monday, August 07, 2006 at 03:45 PM
There's a secret to eating Tim Tams that may not be well know outside Australia. You bite off diagonal corners & suck your coffee/hot chocolate through them ... absolutely divine!
Posted by: Katie | Monday, August 07, 2006 at 11:36 PM
OH MY!! Drooling over here with all those yummy candy!
Posted by: michellelmf | Tuesday, August 08, 2006 at 09:57 AM
cafe tasse were the chocolates served with coffe the night my husband proposed.
Posted by: heatherly | Tuesday, August 08, 2006 at 10:23 PM
LOVE your taste in candy! ENJOY!
Posted by: Gillian Greding | Wednesday, August 09, 2006 at 12:38 AM
You're going to LOVE the Violet Crumble.
Posted by: Blair | Wednesday, August 09, 2006 at 08:10 AM
I love Cafe Tasse bars. :) Have you tried the Caffe and Mint flavors? All quite delicious.
Posted by: Marie | Monday, August 14, 2006 at 02:27 AM