Skildpadder

When I reviewed Lohengrin I talked about how much I liked chocolates with a creamy alcoholic filling, which I think is something typically Scandinavian. In the next two posts I will review too other similar chocolates both from Denmark, Skildpadder and Punchpokal.

Skildpadder, which means turtles in Danish, is a chocolate shaped like a turtle filled with rum creme and caramel.

The chocolate is a dark one which accompany the runny, vanilla creme with a hint of alcoholic flavour (supposedly rum) and the gooey caramel. Lohengrin is similar to Skildpadder qualitywise, but the distinct alcoholic flavour makes Skildpadder a little bit better. 

RATING: 5

Brand: Toms

Size: 28 g

Price: 6 kr | £0,50 | $0,90

Purchased: Sweden

Melkesjokolade

Melkesjokolade, meaning Milk chocolate off course, is one of Norway's most popular milk chocolates from the the country's biggest chocolate brand Freia. Freia is owned by Mondelez Int., which also owns Cadbury, Milka and Marabou of Sweden etc. Freia and Marabou shares mostly the same product range because ones they were the same company.

Freia Milk chocolate is creamy but a little bit too sweet. After a bite it has some resemblance to those cheaper German advents' calendar chocolates (which isn't bad themselves, kind of a guilty pleasure).

Overall an all right chocolate, but nothing fancy.

RATING: 2

Brand: Freia

Size: 100 g

Price: 24 kr | £2,15 | $3,60

Purchased: NorskMat

Sportlunch

Sportlunch is a milk chocolate bar containing crispy wafers. It comes in three different sizes: 25, 50 and 100 g. I bought the smallest one, which often can be found in the Pick and Mix-candy section.

The milk chocolate is very creamy and the wafer is not crumbly nor soft it's kind of infuses with the creamy chocolate . Sportlunch reminds me a lot of Kitkat but with a better quality chocolate. 

RATING: 3

Brand: Cloetta

Size: 25 g

Price: 4 kr | £0,35 | $0,60

Purchased: Sweden

Kick Seasalt

Kick Seasalt is a salty sweet liquorice. Kick comes in three different flavours; original (sweet liquorice), lemon-liqourice and sea salt which is the line's newest addition.

I'm not very of fond of the original Kick which only taste of sweet liquorice, but the sea salt-edition is very good. It has the sweet liqourice flavor but also a salty note which come through the more you eat it. The consistency is between chewy and crumbly.

RATING: 5

Brand: Cloetta

Size: 19 g

Price: 5 kr | £0,45 | $0,75

Purchased: Sweden

Lohengrin

Lohengrin is a small, dark chocolate bar filled with rum cream. It's named after the Wagner opera Lohengrin and it was introduced in 1911 on the opening night of that same opera in The National Theater in Oslo.

Chocolates with a alcoholic cream is something I really enjoy. Maybe it's typically Scandinavian? Denmark gots some varieties with Punschpokal (chocolates filled with arrack punch cream) and Skilpadder (chocolates also filled with rum cream). And then Norway got Lohengrin.

The dark chocolate in Lohengrin is smooth and has just the right sweetness to it (around 60% cocoa I think) and the white cream tastes of toffee and a hint of vanilla, but not of any rum though.

In the Danish varieties there is a stronger alcoholic "touch" (there is no alcoholic flavour in them per se) but I couldn't find any of that in Lohengrin. Still it's very tasteful and just the kind of sweet I like the most,

RATING: 4

Brand: Freia

Size: 34 g

Price: 20 kr | £1,80 | $3,00

Purchased: NorskMat

Stratos

Stratos is a milk chocolate with bubbles, just like Cadbury Bubbles, Milka Luflée, Marabou Bubblig Mjölkchoklad etc. I like very much Swedish Marabou's take on bubbly chocolate so it was interesting to try a Norweigan version.

Stratos chocolate had a distinct malty scent. I took a bite and there was a strong maltiness combined with a sweet, round chocolate taste. The chocolate was a little bit dry and it wasn't the best quality milk chocolate I've had. It reminded me of Cadbury Dairy Milk but it was a bit better. Dairy Milk is overly sweet in my opinion.

RATING: 2

Brand: Nidar

Size: 150 g

Price: 38 kr | £3,50 | $5,65

Purchased: NorskMat

Kaviarmix

Kaviarmix is a creamed, cod roe paste product. Not to be confused with caviar, kaviar is especially popular in Sweden and Norway where the Kalles Kaviar-brand is the most famous.

When most kaviars are salty because of the smoked roe, Kaviarmix was particularly mild (the product emphasis on it's mildness). It was lightly orange in color, a bit oily and had the smoked roe character but just a little touch of saltiness. Kaviars like Kalles kaviar is too salty for me so Kaviarmix was right up my alley.

I bough it online from Norway, too bad it can't be found in Sweden.

As a foreigner kaviar is probably something you don't like at first taste. It takes a while to get familiar with the special taste. But I encourage you to try it.

If you can't find Kaviarmix, Kalles Kaviar or any other brand, kaviar can be found in IKEA stores under the name Smörgåskaviar.

RATING: 3

Brand: Mills

Size: 180 g

Price: 35 kr | £3,20 | $5,30

Purchased: NorskMat