Black Thunder – Blissful Butter
This is apparently a revival or reissue of an old flavour. Having tried a bar not long ago that felt too similar to the regular one, I’m hoping this one delivers on being something different. I mean, if it was good enough for them to bring it back, surely it has to have caught on with a wide enough audience, right?
Butter is one of those things where if you add more, it makes something taste better. It’s one of those magic ingredients that makes everything better by adding some onto, or into it. There’s an everlasting joke that if something doesn’t taste good, just add more butter to it. It’s the magical ingredient. For taste, not for your body.
The colouring on this is light, but the smell is very buttery, for lack of a better term. There’s butter in here, and there’s no doubt about it. It actually smells more like a butter cookie than it does anything else. Certain flavours when you hear the name, you can already sort of taste it in your mind’s tongue. Or at least I can.
Turns out it also tastes like a butter cookie – the bar almost melts in your mouth the second it gets in there, and the flavour sort of permeates throughout your mouth, coating it in buttery goodness. There’s also a hint of salt in there, which I imagine is to help cut the rich and buttery sensation of it a bit, and to add some complexity to an otherwise rich, sweet flavour.
The texture is a little different from the usual Black Thunder in that it’s softer, and is like a really moist, soft butter cookie in which is sort of melts away as you bite into it. While it lacks the classic crunchy crumble texture that most Black Thunder bars have, this is more like a melt in your mouth texture of a biscuit. It’s definitely a different way to enjoy a chocolate bar, but it is by no means a bad thing.
So would I do this again? Yes, very likely if I can find it. Given that it’s a re-issue, I am hoping that it makes it’s rounds again next year and I can get my grubby little paws on another bar. This bar just reinforces that adding butter to something can make it better. Or in the case of Black Thunder, making something good even better.
