Chocolate of the Day
NeoCocoa
Milk Tea Toffee Brittle
Good ++ - Good +++
Weight: 3.0 oz. (85 g.) in total package
Calories: N/A - not listed on packaging
Cost: $11.99 for 1 package
Purchased from: Toque Blanche, Santa Cruz, CA
Welcome to Day #1 of Chocolate and Tea Theme Week.
Today's Milk Tea Toffee Brittle was from NeoCocoa (Belmont, CA).
NeoCocoa founder and chocolatier, Christine Doerr, has produced a line of very tasty chocolate covered toffees and treats since 2008 (and probably before then). See previous entries on Chocolate Banquet.*
Aroma notes for today's toffee brittle included: subtle dark milk chocolate; tea with milk and sugar; faint botanical (citrus, seed) and floral (bergamot orange blossom, and (imagined) very faint, sweet lavender).
Texture: generously-sized, shards of (crunchy then chewy) toffee brittle were covered in smooth milk chocolate.
Flavor notes: smooth, creamy milk chocolate, authentic buttery toffee (browned sugar, butter, vanilla), and very faint seed and botanical (tea with bergamot). The Earl Grey (bergamot orange) tea flavor became more prominent toward the finish, and continued (in a most pleasing way) into an extended finish. I loved the progression of the tea flavor.
As with all NeoCocoa toffee brittles, this Milk Tea flavor was addicting. Be forewarned. If you're overly hungry, this toffee in this package will disappear almost immediately.
Ingredients: Dark-milk chocolate (cane sugar, milk, cocoa butter, cacao beans, sunflower lecithin, vanilla beans), brown sugar, butter, black tea, bergamot.
Allergen-related information: Contains Dairy.
*Other toffee brittle flavors include: black sesame seed; warm ginger root; and toffee (cacao) nib.