Milk Chocolate

Milk Chocolate Bar Guide

When it comes to milk chocolate, most visitors to The Chocolatarium are interested in the level of sweetness, the chocolate’s texture and what interesting flavours they might discover! Here, our Chocolate Guide Jenny, gives an overview of the feedback visitors to The Chocolatarium have given.

Nuts and Caramels

Nuts and caramels are some of the best flavours to add to milk chocolate. Montezuma perfectly brings these flavours together with their Happiness bar, a milk chocolate with caramelised hazelnuts! For caramel flavours, Kernow does a brilliant range of pudding-inspired bars with names like Billionaires Shortbread and Banoffee and Toffee Apple as well as a really creamy Salted Caramel.

For milk chocolate with nuts, Chocolate Tree’s Orange and Almond strikes a great balance between orange and nutty flavours. Chocolate Tree also do a bean-to-bar chocolate made only with cocoa, sugar and hazelnuts all ground up into a smooth and creamy Gianduja bar.

Something Surprising!

Stateside, a company based in the north of England are masters of bizarre chocolate recipes. Their Peanut Butter & Jelly is a mix of creamy peanut, fruity jammy flavours and a hint of salt. Their Stateside Texas BBQ (not suitable for vegetarians) is great for steak lovers and genuinely captures the flavours of a barbeque but doesn’t appeal to everyone! However, their Maple Bacon Pancake Milk Chocolate is highly recommended and is one of the most popular bars we’ve ever featured in the Tasting Room. Unusual, yet absolutely delicious. Another crazy flavour is the serious spicy Grim Reaper Hellraiser Ghost Pepper Milk (only if you can handle the heat of a Madras curry). If Tikka Masala is more your spice level, Montezuma’s chilli and lime-flavoured Hot Pickle is a better bet.

Plain Milk Chocolate

If you want a straightforward plain milk chocolate bar, Mackie’s Traditional Milk is deliciously creamy and chocolatey with over 30% cacao. But for the smoothest mouthfeel we have ever encountered, it’s Lotte’s Ghana Milk Chocolate from Japan.

Dark Milk Chocolates

‘Dark milk’ chocolates are made with milk but have a high cacao content of around 45% to 60% cacao giving a richer, slightly less sweet flavour than your average milk chocolate. For plain ‘dark milk’ chocolate, Chocolate Tree’s 60% Maranon Milk has a slightly textured mouthfeel with notes of raisins and Willie’s Milk of the Stars 54% offers hints of caramel. One of the very best flavoured ‘dark milk’ chocolates is Bare Bones’ Honduras Milk and Coffee with just the right sweetness level for a coffee chocolate.

Vegan Milk Chocolates, for everyone

In recent years, there have been huge improvements in the use of alternative milks such as oat and soy but also the skillful use of nut butters to create the creamy mouthfeel we all love, without the dairy. See our Vegan Milk Chocolate page for more!