Organic Whole Milk Chocolate Favorite Person

Lieblingsmensch organic milk chocolate bar from Berger Confiserie, tender

Berger Confiserie's Organic Whole Milk Chocolate Lieblingsmensch, German for “favorite person”, is a mild milk chocolate bar that carries its greeting in its name. Beneath it lies the house's classic recipe of raw cane sugar, cocoa butter, whole milk powder and real vanilla, melting slowly and without any sharp edge in taste.

Organic Whole Milk Chocolate Favorite Person is the greeting bar from Berger Confiserie in Lofer, in Salzburg's Saalach Valley. The 70-gram chocolate contains the same organic milk chocolate with 37 percent cocoa as the plain variety, but here it comes with a dedication that makes unwrapping it half the gift.

A greeting you eat together

For your partner, your oldest friend or the mother you are simply fond of, this bar says a quiet “I'm thinking of you.”

The loveliest gestures don't need a holiday, and it is precisely their casualness that turns them into an occasion. On the pillow, in the breakfast basket or in a coat pocket, the greeting needs no explanation. Unlike a bunch of flowers, it doesn't wilt, and unlike a card, it doesn't end up in a drawer; instead it is shared by two that very evening.

Raw cane sugar sets the warm tone

First on the list of ingredients is raw cane sugar, which retains a trace of molasses when the sugarcane juice is boiled down.

That trace is why the bar brings a gentle caramel warmth and why the milky sweetness seems rounder than with refined sugar. Then there is real vanilla, which you can recognize by its fine dark specks and by an aftertaste that is still there long after the piece has melted. The cocoa keeps the sweetness in check and makes sure no sugary feeling lingers after the first piece.

Poured on Schokoladenweg in Lofer

Berger Confiserie is based in Lofer, where the Saalach Valley lies between the Loferer Steinberge and the Kitzbühel Alps, and pours every variety there individually.

The greeting bars follow the same recipe as the rest of the range, with organic ingredients, because a dedication is no reason to skimp on the chocolate. The bar is cast from the same chocolate as its plain sister and simply wrapped differently. You'll find exactly that one as the organic milk chocolate.

Thirty-seven percent cocoa is a lot for a milk chocolate; most bars on the shelves come in well below that and taste accordingly of milk and sugar. Here the cocoa still carries through without the bar turning dark. The emulsifier comes from sunflowers rather than soy, and the vanilla comes as a pod, not as a flavoring.

On the pillow, in a coat pocket

Put the bar by the coffee cup, in a handbag or on top of the luggage, and the discovery the next morning does the rest.

Because it is flat, it fits into any padded envelope and can also travel across the country as a greeting by post. Store it cool and dry, away from strongly scented neighbors, and it will wait patiently for the right moment. If you are looking for another occasion, you'll find more greeting bars from Berger Confiserie in the Berger range.

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

The organic certification applies to every single ingredient, from the raw cane sugar and the whole milk powder to the vanilla. With a chocolate that has such a short list, that means there is no item behind which anything conventional could hide.