DARS Chocolate – Premium White Brownie
With some products, it’s a little more evident what makes something “premium”. I am not quite sure what makes this particular product so, other than a fancy package, some nice gold trim and the words telling me. I’m a bit old school in that I prefer products show, rather than tell. I’m not holding out any big hopes here, but I will keep an open mind. After all, this looks exactly like the regular DARS.
Similar to other DARS flavours this comes in a nice little cardboard tray of 12 pieces, and a nice flap you can close to try and maintain the illusion of freshness. While this flavour is clearly marked as premium, I’m not sure exactly what makes this premium. I guess I can’t complain too much, because as far as pricing goes I got this for roughly the same as the regular varieties.
The aroma I get when opening this foil pack is an overwhelming smell of a sweet chocolate cake of some sort, with a hint of fruitiness to it. The flavour is not too far off from the smell, which is a fairly standard, sweet white chocolate and what I would describe as free dried brownie or cake bits. There’s also a hint of raspberry and strawberry, though truthfully I’m not sure if it’s coming from the chocolate itself or the filling.
Speaking of the filling, this bar is heavily geared towards the brownie filling, which is a bit jarring. The chocolate itself is somewhat soft and borderline melty, so it does a nice smooth job of keeping things together while providing a nice chewing experience. The insides though are very dry and crumbly, so while you get the general idea of cake batter or brownies, it sort of falls apart when you bite it and the experience is sort of jarring. The best way to describe it is you took dry, stale cake and tried to cover it in chocolate. The brownie component just sort of goes every which way, and it’s not really held together at all.
The flavours are great here, but the texture is honestly kind of off putting, and I’d almost rather it had a higher chocolate to brownie ratio to try and offset some of the crumbly dryness. It’s definitely a neat idea, but the execution needs some work. Have I mentioned enough times yet that I’m still not really sold on the “premium” part of this? Ok I’ll stop now.
