Seattle Chocolate – Happy Birthday Truffle Bar

Unsurprisingly, the Happy Birthday theming is around the flavour itself. it’s pretty clearly stated that its a cake batter flavour, with crunchy bits of confetti. Basically what you think when you have birthday cake. Now if I’m being honest, beyond the nostalgia behind birthday cake, I don’t much get the appeal of the flavour. Maybe some people enjoy the sugary, sickly sweet flavour of most generic birthday cakes, but I guess that’s not for me.

Having prefaced that, curiosity does indeed kill the cat, and that applies here as well. I don’t opine for birthday cake chocolate, but the curiosity of what that experience would be has gotten the best of me and here we are. Opening this bad boy up I am met with a very sweet smelling chocolate, and what can only be described as cakey. I don’t know if anyone else has this, but I can sort of smell sprinkles, and I can only describe it as a sweet smell. Is that weird? Can you get diabetes from smell?

The bar itself is slightly thicker than a normal bar in this format. Sandwiched between the milk chocolate layers is the cake layer with very noticeable bits of sprinkles everywhere. The texture of the bar is of a creamy milk chocolate bar, with the center layer being ever so slightly softer. The softness of the inside layer, while not that much softer is enough so that you could consider this a truffle bar. The melt is consistent with the chocolate and the inner layer, but this definitely feels more like a bar that you would chew.

I’m not sure how to describe the experience other than bringing me back to a simpler time. It really does a good of capturing that birthday cake experience, where it’s got a ton of vanilla frosting, some little bits of sprinkles and confetti, and coming together as a simple, sugary sweet experience. Make no mistake this is going to be very sweet, but you sort of expect that from anything birthday cake flavoured. The milk chocolate itself is on the sweet side, and it competes with the sweetness of the middle layer. I can’t quite put my finger on the exact flavour, but it’s a combination of vanilla frosting and egg to really make it feel like it’s cake smooshed down to a chocolate bar.

I might not be a fan of birthday cake flavours, but I appreciate the novelty behind this bar and I have no doubt that fans of the flavour will enjoy this bar quite a bit. I could see myself getting this again, but more as a novelty gift for someone rather than for myself.