Organic Whole Milk Chocolate with Almond-Cinnamon Crunch – Silent Night

Organic Whole Milk Chocolate Silent Night by Berger Confiserie

Berger Confiserie's Organic Whole Milk Chocolate Silent Night is a Christmas bar from Lofer with crunchy pieces of almonds, cinnamon and honey. The wrapper shows the snow-covered Silent Night Chapel in Oberndorf, a motif that stays the same every year.

Organic Whole Milk Chocolate with Almond-Cinnamon Crunch Silent Night is a chocolate with almonds from Berger Confiserie in Salzburger Land. Tender milk chocolate with 37 percent cocoa holds almond pieces coated in cinnamon and honey, sweet, crunchy and warm like sugar-roasted almonds from the Christmas market.

Chocolate with almonds, cinnamon and honey

The almond-cinnamon pieces are spread throughout the bar, so that in every piece you taste tender milk chocolate, almond and warm cinnamon at once.

Break off a piece and you smell cinnamon and a little honey, just like the stall selling sugar-roasted almonds at the Christmas market. The pieces crackle softly while the milk chocolate melts, and this interplay of soft and firm is what makes this chocolate with almonds so lively.

Honey and a little cane sugar coat the almond pieces; the cinnamon sits in this coating and settles warmly over the mild milk flavor. Sweet, crunchy, spicy – this is what Advent tastes like in Lofer.

Oberndorf and the carol that traveled around the world from there

The Silent Night Chapel in Oberndorf near Salzburg stands on the site of the old St. Nicholas Church, where the carol Silent Night, Holy Night was first heard on Christmas Eve in 1818.

Joseph Mohr had written the words, Franz Xaver Gruber the melody. From Oberndorf, the carol traveled around the world within a few decades. The small chapel with its dome was only built after the church was demolished, and today it draws many visitors during Advent.

On the wrapper, Berger Confiserie shows the chapel deep in snow between fir trees; the original is by the Lofer artist Ernst Schmiderer. Unlike the greeting bars, whose motifs change every year, this picture stays the same winter after winter.

Velvety milk chocolate from long stirring

The milk chocolate in this bar is made from raw cocoa that Berger Confiserie buys from CONACADO in the Dominican Republic. The company then stirs it in the conche in Lofer for sixty to seventy hours.

Stirring for so long takes all harshness out of the mass and makes it so velvety that the crunchy pieces stand out all the more clearly. Sugar, cocoa butter and milk are in balance, and real vanilla rounds it off.

All ingredients come from organic farming, including the honey and the cinnamon in the crunchy pieces, so you get a chocolate with almonds that is organic through and through.

With mulled wine and under the Christmas tree

At 90 g and with the picture of the chapel, the bar is a gift that suits Christmas year after year. Hosts are just as pleased with it as grandparents or the family you send a parcel to far away.

With a mug of mulled wine, with punch or with an espresso after Christmas dinner, the almond and cinnamon really come into their own. Stored cool and dry, the crunchy pieces stay crisp and the chocolate keeps its gloss until the holidays.

For something purely nutty, there is the organic milk chocolate with roasted hazelnuts; more festive bars can be found under Christmas and in the Berger range.

Organic control number AT-BIO-301 – EU/non-EU agriculture