Seattle Chocolate – Hot Buttered Rum Truffle Bar

Seattle Chocolate does quite a few flavours, and I feel like I am almost done with working through the holiday flavours. I’m sure by the time I finish reviewing this, they will probably have a bunch of new ones I need to work through. While my wallet would be inclined to run away screaming, but gut is loving all these new novel flavours.

This is a milk chocolate bar, and from the appearance, looks to be a solid bar all the way through, with what I assume are candy pieces in the centre. As a big fan of rum in chocolate and ice cream, this one felt like a pretty obvious choice. Also a random plug for Buttered Rum Lifesavers. Those were shockingly good and I loved those as a kid in a way I didn’t for non-fruity hard candies.

The flavour is mostly a standard milk chocolate with a slight saltiness which is added to help balance the sweetness. The little candy bits don’t really read as rum, but do remind me of toffee and as I chew the little bits, it does remind me of buttered rum lifesavers that I loved as a kid. Overall though, the bar is on the sweeter side, which I guess is to be expected with a milk chocolate base. I think I’m just getting old and not enjoying milk chocolate as much anymore. I think if this was a darker or less sweet milk chocolate, this would work better. As it stands, the toffee and the chocolate are doubling up on the sweetness and is a bit much for me.

The texture is truthfully a bit stickier than I anticipated. While the chocolate itself has a nice, smooth truffle melt as it sits in your mouth, it is contrasted by the initially crunchy but quickly sticky bits of what seem to be toffee. You end up with the pieces sticking together, and if you’re unlucky, to your teeth and crevices in between. This is not an uncommon occurrence for toffee based treats, but it is one of the downsides of certain toffee executions.

I have enjoyed quite a few of Seattle Chocolate’s truffle bars, but this one is likely one I won’t get again since the execution of flavours are not particular a draw for me, nor is the hassle of working through those sticky toffee pieces. I like the idea of this bar, but feel like the execution is lacking.