3.5oz
(100g) bar
Ingredients:
Cocoa mass, sugar, cocoa powder, cocoa butter, soy lecithin
13g
sugar/33g serving (39.4% by wt.)
Corporate
Info: It's
Ikea, international home of cheap flat-pack furniture and Swedish
meatballs. Their stock of groceries includes a few chocolate bars.
Today's Bar:
Among Ikea's three chocolate bars (milk, milk with hazelnuts, and
dark) is this 60% cacao option. Nothing special, just “dark
chocolate,” and it costs 99¢.
Appearance:
One of those big, thin bars, but with a pillowy top. Fairly matte,
with a purply-grey cast.
Smell:
Pretty nice, with a light, spiced nuttiness like nutmeg or almonds.
Taste:
First sweet, followed by a whole flavor experience that doesn't work
for me. It reminds me of cream that's gone sour: There's nothing
wrong with cream, and we expect cacao to have tart elements, but the
richness and sourness don't mesh here, and the sweet sits on top of
the whole thing and lingers weirdly for a long while along with a
thin, tinny sort of bitterness. The flavors here all make sense, but
for some reason they just don't meld in this bar.
Conclusion:
Ikea Choklad Mörk / Dark Chocolate has all the right flavors, but
they don't mesh well.
